The journey is never a simple one.

I always find it amazing how success stories never include all the struggles that person must have gone through to get to their goal.  I've been attending a slimming world group for about 6 weeks and the first four went slow but well, I managed to lose half a stone, then I gained, which happened at the inconvenient time because I had two birthdays this week and things haven't gone great. So I'm kind of dreading my weigh in on Tuesday, but hopefully will be able to stay the same, if not lose something.  The people who go to the group are very inspiring and all have struggles, some have colossal gains, some seem to get away with dieting murder.  One woman claimed to have eaten five Krispy Kreme doughnuts at the weekend and still lose weight. FIVE DOUGHNUTS!!!! As you can tell by my blog title, that's my nemesis. I love Krispy Kreme.

Based on previous dieting/training program attempts, this is the point where I start to lose it and not really care.  And I've had those thoughts this week.  I've started to think, maybe just clean eating is the way - the way my gym promotes.  I can do it without the support, etc. But this is what I always do.  As soon as I struggle or it seems to get more difficult, I start looking for another solution, instead of persevering on, like the people in the success stories.  I've tried enough times to know that very few people have the dream journey where nothing goes wrong.  But life happens! Celebrations! Tragedies! Temptations! It's recognising these as bumps in the road and moving on, because we'll still get there in the long run.  I've had a few bumps the last couple of weeks, but all my efforts have not been ruined. I've not become the fatty I was before. I do have a large food baby from the curry I have just consumed in honour of my partners birthday, but this will pass and will just carry on.

I will look at the time between now and Christmas as a new phase, another chapter of my journey and see where I get. I'm hoping to be 10 stone 5lb by Christmas. I was 10 stone 10.8lb on my scales yesterday morning, so it's definitely achievable. I've decided to weigh in on my scales on a Saturday morning and then at Slimming World on a Tuesday evening. Let's see if this screws me up this time.

What we all must remember is, that no matter how big your goal is, or how far away it may seem, it's always easier to look at it in manageable chunks. Otherwise we'd all go crazy! So, here's to the beginning of another phase and moving food with delicious food memories.