The beginning - Slimming World Week 1

So last night I took a leap and joined slimming world. My lovely consultant Karen was a nice as pie to me in the new members talk (which was particularly amazing as my lovely three year old had accompanied me to the meeting).

After my talk I sat in on image therapy. This is something I've never experienced before and wow not what I was expecting at all. I am an ex-weightwatcher so this type of meeting was so totally different I was completely enthralled!

Slimmer of the week and our fab raffle were done and we actually ran over time as everyone was sharing so much!

Then came the moment of dread.. My stomach was in a ball of nerves as I stepped up on those scales.. Moment of truth.

My starting weight (I am horrible ashamed to say) is 13 stone and 1 pd! Considering when I was fullterm with my daughter I was 14 stone I was horrified. I nearly literally cried! But I sucked it up and pushed on. I will use this blog and my fab new instagram account (which you can follow from here) to keep up the motivation for the weeks where I feel crappy! Hopefully once the weight starts coming off I can do some before and after photos to keep the motivation going.

Family courtesy of: www.frugalfamily.co.uk

I have set an interium target of 11 stone 7 pd and my final target will be 10 stone.

When I got home I did something I absolutely love love love to do, I made some lists!! The more you get to know me the more you see that I make a lot of lists! Here are a sample of my obsession from last night.

I wrote my shopping list, I wrote my meal plan for the week and I wrote out all the recipes I was going to use for the week!

So off I went to do my shopping in Aldi and WOW! This has got to be the healthiest shop I think I've ever done.

So fast forward to this morning....

Breakfast was fantastic!
2 x Weetabix (HexB)
150ml skimmed milk (350ml for the day HexA)
Strawberries (SuperSpeed)
Raspberries (SuperSpeed)
Grapes and a Latered Greek Style yogurt from Aldi

I have not had that much food in the morning in a long time! It is now 1pm and I am still stuffed.

Onwards and upwards today! I am determined to have a good week! Bring on Lunch and Dinner :)

We can do this!

Nicola x