Slimming World dieting

In May 2021 I had to see a consultant about my arthritis in my knees. They basically told me that the only thing I could do was to lose weight and pray as I was too old for a knee replacement. I wallowed in self pity for a few days and then got my act together. I joined Slimming World and got started. My husband wasn’t 100% sure about it but was happy to help me out!!

I decided to go for the online version of slimming world which gives you a funky app to record all your meals in, a million books and best of all, no meetings to attend!! It seemed pretty easy and I genuinely wasn’t hungry at all. The meal prep took a little bit of time but batch cooking was easy and I got into the swing of it. In the first month I lost 9lbs and after 6 months I was at 3st gone. But then my online membership ran out, I wasn’t in a position to renew it (it’s not cheap!!) and I really didn’t want to go to groups and get weighed etc in front of people. On top of this, I’d got all my books and knowledge from the previous 6 months so I decided to go it alone.

Unfortunately this was over Christmas, my birthday, new year and the greyest few months we’d had in the UK for a long time! And so I put half a stone back on. I started looking at pictures of myself from before I started losing weight and looked at me now and I am so much happier and contented with my life. I needed to get back on the horse. Again, money was tight so I couldn’t join up again. I had to be more disciplined and actually use what I’d got at home.

I bought one of these weighted hula hoops (https://amzn.to/3Nsx2rJ) a long time ago and decided to start using it. It’s really easy to put together and after a week of using it for 10 minutes a day, I’ve dropped a link already!!!

Once I decided to get back on track I knew I needed a way to do it visually as well. So I had a look on Amazon and found this set of books. I LOVE THEM!! The work well with Slimming World and keep me on track too. I can’t find a better set of tools to help me on this journey.