Day 6

Sore today after the gym class session yesterday. Really felt challenged today to stick to eating healthily.

First challenge was at lunchtime-our normal routine would be an lovely fresh white baguette with cheese and salad. I felt a bit sad that I didn’t have that. But I replaced the baguette with rye bread and it was actually ok. Not quite so yummy but not awful.

The second challenge was I visited someone else’s house with my child and I don’t know the mum very well. She has bought chocolate cupcakes for us coming and gave my son and I one. I just didn’t have it in me to refuse as I didn’t want to be rude. So I ate it and made sure I enjoyed every bit of it! I’m just not sure how I could have tactfully refused without causing a lot of offence! I don’t think I’ll call that a fail.

But it’s really made me realise how much of a challenge my weekend is to eating well. And that the weekend has probably been sabotaging my weight loss, regardless of how ‘good’ I’d been through the week.

The other thing I’m starting to realise is that the time commitment to exercise and eating healthier is massive and has probably been the biggest contributor to my lack of willpower/determination etc. The gym classes plus healthy eating is really eating into my time. I’ve said 6 weeks which makes it more manageable but whether or not I can sustain the time commitment beyond then is a very tricky question!