Brutal Honesty

After 3 very successful weeks on the WW plan I've found that the 4th week has been a little lack luster. It's amazing how easily old habits can creep back in when you aren't paying full attention to what you are doing. Having snuck a peek at the scales this morning, this week I've lost 0.2kg so far. Whilst I'm more than happy with it being a loss, its a big dive from the 1kg a week average I had for the first three weeks and I've spent the evening reassessing my week so that I can try and make next week better.

I had a great loss last week and it is probably more than reasonable to expect a lower than average loss this week as it all balances out. However I made myself a promise when I started this blog that I would always be honest with myself on this journey and that means admitting that I haven't had the best week.

Without wanting to make excuses for the choices I've made this week, I think my downfall has been a combination of becoming a little cocky or complacent due to early success and the fact that work has been extremely busy for the last week or so. I have been very fortunate over the last three weeks with my weight loss, it has come off relatively easily and I haven't had to think to much about it. I made wise food choices and started exercising again for the first time in about 10 years.

This week though the wheels have fallen off a little bit. I haven't been eating my allocated points each day, I've often had anywhere between 5 - 7 points left at the end of the day, which I know is a big no no. On top of that we have been run off our feet at work and as I'm an afternoon exerciser, by the time the end of the day has come around, I'm exhausted and have found it far to easy to make excuses not to go to the gym. If I was to be totally honest I would have to admit that I'm still not at the point where I love exercise so I think a combination of being tired and having had a few great losses, subconsciously I decided that I didn't really need to exercise as much. THIS IS A THOUGHT PATTERN THAT HAS TO CHANGE!!!!

If 0.2kg is what my total loss for this week checks in at on Monday when I weigh in, I will be happy with that. It still puts me 200g closer to my goal and equates to a total loss of 4.1kg in 4 weeks. But it's important for my long term success that I nip destructive habits in the butt.

Starting first thing tomorrow morning I'm going back to basics, planning my meals in advance and I absolutely have to make the room for exercise so I'm going to try and switch to exercising of a morning before work. I refuse to fall back into the habits that got me to where I am because I know believe that I deserve better than that!