Repair the damage!!

Down after a brilliant holiday, fed up working away all the time, no stability until my o/h gets a new job and we know where we will end up making our home, getting time to spend together when we are not knackered all the time.

I have returned and gone into free fall, eating too much, drinking too much and feeling fat, bloated, achy and slow. Today I will vow to continue my long-term weight loss battle again - I have not given up, I have just had another blip, I will continue and succeed.

I must also get back to my hypnosis tape on a regular basis - like every day for 21 days without interuption. I tried, but could not keep it up, and look where it has got me!! Bigger than a long time, if I don't get control I will be back where I started!

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Christmas Countdown Challenge week 4 update

Wow!!!! At the end of week 4 I can report a total weight loss of 13.5 lbs!!! I am now under 300 lbs in total and well and truly back on track with following the Scottish Slimmers healthy eating PEP plus plan (I am just waiting to receive my PEP Complete plan which is new out).

I think I will definately be in that airline seat by the time we fly out to travel around the world on Boxing Day.

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Downsizing

I am downsizing more than just my body! We are making arrangements to empty our family home after all these years. My o/h and I are starting to make the mental break from this as home and look forward to becoming footloose and fancy free.

I won't say it is easy, because it isn't. I look forward to coming home when working away all week, but I spend so little time here anymore and it is a financial cost that I could divert to other things in my life - like travelling.

We were planning on what we would take with us to France, what we would give to the girls, and what we would skip/give to charity/car boot or leave in the loft when the house is let out. Letting go is so hard! I owned up to my o/h how sad I felt and he admitted to feeling the same, but said that when we were together anything seemed managable and he felt more right about our decision than anything.

Well, we have started on the loft today - emptying out nealy 30 years of possessions ready to put in other things we may really want to keep!!

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Milestone on the journey

It wasn't until I updated my ticker that I realised that I had reached another milestone on my weight loss journey, I found that I was 0.5lb under 300lbs!! It may still be a lot of lbs to lose, but that has brightened my day considerably and keeping reminding myself of that will help to keep my PEP head firmly glued on.

It just proves that little targets as well as big targets are important to us throughout this journey and if we keep achieving all those little targets we will reach the end of the journey and find that we have really been brilliant.

I read the winners stories on the website yesterday, and they do give you great inspiration. I cannot wait to get my January edition of Boost (which I will read when I come back from travelling in mid February). I suspect I will need inspiration when I come back from travelling, or I will have to book another holiday to look forward to and work towards!! This weight loss journey is a very expensive, if not mentally expansive, one for me!

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Christmas Countdown Challenge

I have to get a grip of myself. I am now eating everything in sight again and have gained 1st 3lb over my lowest on this final push. I am not giving up. I am going to Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand and San Francisco in December for a dream 7 week holiday. I will be under 20st when I go, I must be to feel good about myself and have a more comfortable experience on all those long haul flights.

Yesterday I set myself my Christmas challenge - to lose 22 lbs (2 lb a week) between now and Christmas - I can do it.

To help me I have started a course of hypnosis via my MP3 player from Andrew Johnson. I started this on Friday, so have done it twice, but you need to do it daily for 3 weeks then as needed. Watch this space, because after yesterday's session I have felt better than ever about now giving in to food temptations.


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