A thing I have learned: the breakfast

(LighterLife Management – ongoing)
Breakfast is a girl’s best friend. I have skipped breakfast only a very, very few times this year, and each time I have a) been very very conscious about it throughout the day, b) been starving mid-morning, and c) eaten badly for the rest of the day. Added to that, I feel [...]

What happened in Months 6 and 7 of Management?

(LighterLife Management – Month 8)
So what did happen? Seeing that I had a serious writer’s block oh bugger, everything block through November and December, I am trying to capture at least bits of it posthumously here. Using that particular word because it does feel like I’m rewinding my head somewhere quite far back that doesn’t [...]

A new kind of terror – coming out

(LighterLife – Management Month 5)
Do you have to tell? I was introduced to a lovely guy some 6 months ago when I was just entering Week 5 of Route to Management, so he’s only seen me at my ‘normal’: back to drinking and eating real food, and pretty much within one size!
I didn’t realise this [...]

Negotiating with yourself

(LighterLife Management – Month 5)
Should I stay (home, isolated but safe, in control) or should I go (out, exposing myself to the ‘elements’ and temptations)?? That IS often the question. And because I still tend to slide on the direction of trying to please other people, I often go out and take my chances, sometimes [...]

Management – Month 4 summary

(LighterLife Management – Month 4)
It’s all gone to the dogs, a bit. It’s like I’ve been living in a different mental zone all month. It’s been a whole load of takeaways, eating out with lots of drinking and all too little sleep. That’s it in a nutshell.
September started out rather well, with good intentions and [...]

LL vs WW

(LighterLife Management – Month 4)
It has to be done. I would’ve left it alone but in my power plates class there was a girl who went on about doing Weight Watchers at the same time. We got talking, and I said I’d done WW twice but always gained the weight, and NOW, after LL am [...]

A blurb about struggling

(LighterLife Management – Month 3)
It’s HARD!!!!! Adjusting back to planning and recording what I’m eating. HARD!
The other day I finally sat down for a concentrated period, inputting what I had eaten and drank on the day onto the calorie counter site (although I haven’t been using it, I’ve still been paying for it so might [...]

Surviving the surf’n'turf

(LighterLife Management – Month 3)
It all boils down to CHOICE. Bear with me in getting to the point.
The anticipation
I hit the waves for the first time last weekend. With some people I knew and a few that I didn’t. Stayed in a caravan for 3 nights, and pretty much did everything together. The surfing. And [...]

Bravely moving forward

(LighterLife Management – Month 3)
Whaddayaknow. My weeks off cycling hadn’t in fact deteriorated my physique completely – yes I was knackered after only a 20-minute ride last Thursday, but now it’s like I was never away. I LOVE it!!
And I went to an LL meeting on Friday. I actually genuinely wanted to go, unlike a [...]

Management – Month 2 summary

(LighterLife Management – Month 2)
JULY. What the hell happened to my ‘month off’!?!?!?!?
Work, only then play. By the time July arrived it was clear that both of my work projects were going to eat into what I had envisioned to be my holiday month. Month my ass! But we make do with what we can, [...]