Week 1 & 2

Retrospectively (as I'm on Week 7) Week 1 & 2 are always the busiest for me, and if I'm honest, the hardest. If I can get through these two weeks I know I'm on my way. They aren't hard because it's painful or hurtful or sore or awful, just hard because it's during this time that I find out how big my portion sizes were and that although in most cases I was eating really well I was just eating far too much.

For example, at this time in my life there is just myself and my partner (my daughter lives with her dad). At night when I dished up dinner, I had the same portion size as my partner (who is 6ft 2 and has the sexiest body). He has an 'on your feet, always moving through the day' type of job, has always been extremely active and typical of a man, just thinks he needs to lose a few kilos and off they drop.

Now when I dish up dinner I make a 4 serving meal, I have one portion, my partner has two portions, and the third portion is his lunch the following day. On on those nights when he is really hungry he'll eat that third portion as well.... and to think that I used to match his portion sizes!

It's also about learning to change your attitude toward food, and choosing those foods that WW deem are 'filling foods', which make you feel fuller for longer. It's about learning to drink water (eeeck, which I really dislike), and about including some form of exercise (yawning). Week 1 & 2 for me is all about setting up the future so it is a big time in my life but it needn't be stressful or hard or difficult. And this includes utilising tips and minimising risk.

This time I know what tools are there to encourage me and I'm taking advantage of each and everyone of them now.