Thanks all for the comments today!
Shell did a post tonight on a narrow escape from weigh-less and I whole-heartedly agree with her.
We live our lives in such “deprivation”, especially as Moms. Don’t spend money on yourself, don’t smoke or drink, rush home to get food on the table, try to juggle schedules to make time for exercise, no time for a quick pedi, sit in traffic because you can only drop kids off at a certain time etc etc. This means that the few things we can call “vices” are near impossible to let go. Not quite like taking candy from a baby now is it?
So, when I embarked on a eating plan last year I sat down with my nutritional therapist (yes, I went to see one, best money I ever spent) and laid down the rules: I don’t function without coffee in the morning and wine at night. Suck it up. But fix me. Please.
To cut a long story short, I’m down to one cuppa a day and a glass of red about 3 nights a week. So, I don’t feel deprived of anything and don’t feel like I’m having to sacrifice.
Have I lost weight? About 7 kg’s of the 27 I have to lose. I could probably have lost a load more, but I feel like a million bucks. I sleep better, I have more energy and it makes a massive difference! I gained 2kgs back over the festive season and am in the process of losing those, again, but without hating myself for it.
Because when we crack ourselves up about not living up to the image we want people to have of us we just become our own worst enemies.
May everyone have a fabulous Thursday, almost time for the weekend!
You are a wise woman. Trying to move out of the self-deprivation mind-set too. It just seems to come so naturally with motherhood!
I could also stand to lose a bit more, but it’s the loving yourself bit that I think matters most.
How right you are. We need to allow ourselves more woman/mommy time and more woman/mommy things. The rest will follow.
Agree with Lynda, Adele and LL. We def don’t love ourselves enough. And well done on that 7 kgs! that’s a pocket of potatoes!
wahaha, good point! And I’m meant to go buy potatoes today!!
It is important to take time out for ourselves as moms – makes us nicer happier moms.
Love this post!
I am a freak of nature – with the slightest hint of stress/worries, etc, the pounds will roll off me (lost 7kgs over festive season just by thinking too much about what-ifs and stuff), but it goes the other way as well – eat 1 cupcake, pick up 1kg, eat 1 McDonalds burger, pick up 2kgs, etc.
Eventually I sat down and made a list of all the stuff I love and cannot live without (like Coke, coffee, cupcakes, etc). I replaced it with an alternative – Sprite Zero or Lemon Water instead of Coke, banana smoothie instead of cupcakes, you get my drift.
By making small changes (Canderel instead of sugar) you CAN make a lasting difference.
OK, I didn’t compromise on my coffee, that is non-negotiable.
I just loved this post.
I also consulted an Eating Plan Dr person last year and told her in no uncertain terms that I must have wine as a food group. And jelly babies. She helped me work out something that suited me. I have not lost as quickly as I would have without the wine but I don’t feel like I’m walking without an arm or something. Only problem is that sometimes (like when I am PMS) I’ll go overboard and finish the whole bottle instead of just having the one glass. I try to make up with it with some exercise by taking the stairs at work instead of the lift. If I remember.
Life is too shprt to deprive ourselves of the good things in life and to constantly feel hungry
Great post.
I have recently realised that I was not losing weight, but not gaining either. So now I still eat/drink the same things I used to – just less of it. And you know what? Slowly, slowly I am losing weight, without depravation, without counting anything. And I’m sure the fact that hubbie and I plays squash the past couple of months can only be a good thing 🙂
super post!