Weight Management

Right, new year, new me!

The diet starts now...

Well actually there’s still that tin of Christmas choccies Aunty Vi gave us, and those nice M&S biscuits, those all sorted nuts and some other goodies in the house. So I’ll have to eat them first, as it’s a waste not to (starving people in Africa and all that!) and then I can start my New Year Diet next week. Mind you it’s always best to start a diet on a Monday, start of the new week, apparently that’s when you are most motivated. I read the most successful diets ALWAYS start on a Monday. I won’t have finished all the food in a few days, so I’ll have to start a week on Monday then.

Right that’s it, it’s official, the New Year’s Diet starts a week on Monday. Oh damn, I’ve just looked at the diary, and there is a Team Building week for work in a really posh hotel, and I can’t be on a diet with all that lovely food around and everyone else chomping merrily away. That’s fine; I’ll start my New Year’s Diet two weeks on Monday. That’s sorted then.

Ok, I want to look good on my holidays in July. I want to wear a spangly bikini and look fantastic, slim and gorgeous; with no wobbly bits when I do my Bay Watch run along the beach! If I lose ½ stone each month for 6 months, it’s achievable. Oooh how exciting, can’t wait for sunning myself in July, I’m going to be such a Goddess! Seeing as I’m going to be so deprived for the next 6 months and eating lettuce leaves , rivita and cottage cheese, I better make the most of the next couple of weeks, before the ‘Diet to End All Diets’ starts... now where did I put that giant Toblerone?

Sound familiar?!

And then how long did the 6 month diet actually last???

Ummm... how about, New Year, New Approach?

• Right now I am tuning into my body’s hunger signals.

• Right now I choose to eat if my body is physically hungry (not when it is bored or stressed or tired etc).

• Right now I stop eating when my body is physically full (not when the packet or the plate is empty).

• Right now I ignore the mental chatter in my head about ‘goodies in the cupboard’ begging to be eaten. I feed my body, not my mind.

• Right now I choose to eat what my body indicates in needs to eat (not what the diet industry tells me I should or should not eat).

• Right now I choose to move my body more in a way that is natural or enjoyable (not some fad mad cap gung-ho routine)

I realise my life is now... now... now and now. Not two weeks on Monday!