GrantTLC - Weight Loss Report - week 4: Back on Track!

Weight Loss Report - week 4: Back on Track!

Thursday, 7. February 2008, 20:27:35

After last week's disappointing result of 'No Change', this weighing session had to be a good one. I hold myself to a fairly high standard and anything less than one pound of weight loss wouldn't have been enough to lift myself out of the doldrums and give me back my confidence.

The woman in front of me in the queue lost five, yes five whole pounds, and as I stepped onto the scales I nervously joked to the group leader lady woman (I really should get her name!) "Flippin' 'eck, how am I supposed to match that kind of weight loss, eh?". The group leader said nothing, looked down at her display, then gave me an odd look from under an arched eyebrow: "You've lost three." (Cue Granty's big-eyed astonishment) "Well done, you've clawed it back from last week, and here, have a wee sticker [on your card] to celebrate your first offically recorded half-stone loss!"

<- This is the exact face I was wearing as I left.

So, as of today, my first month of being with Scottish Slimmers, I have lost 9.5 pounds since joining on the 10th January. Far and away the best £21.20 (£5.30 per week class fee) I have ever spent. The average for a month is 7 lbs therefore I'm 2.5 above average AND I'm now only 4.5 lbs away from losing my first full stone.

With the half-stone loss I've now hit my first little target which good slimming practice says you should treat yourself for, reward yourself for your hard work to give you the impetus to carry on. I already have my eye on the 3-disc special edition of cult classic, Spaced, which I saw in HMV on Monday for £13 but as it was the only copy in the store I can practically guarantee it won't be there when I go back for it. Sod's Law: whenever I restrain my impulse-buying instincts, usually to think it over, the object of my desire promptly vanishes or doubles in price just to spite me.