Jo's Journey

So many people ask me how i lost 100lb in just
over a year so i am going to tell you how here as it also makes it easier than
typing it out everytime someone asks :o)

I planned in advance, shopped
with meal plans in mind and never veered.
I tracked 100%, you have to be
honest or you are only cheating yourself.
I learnt to cook healthy family
meals so we could all eat our favourites but much healthier versions, that way i
was only cooking one meal for the family and not relying on processed
rubbish.
I started walking, not easy at the start but it gets better, a
little more than yesterday and a little less than tomorrow, before you know it,
walking is a doddle and second nature like it should be and you wonder why you
ever caught the bus/got a taxi, took the car!
I went(and still do) to
meetings every week without fail and stayed for the talk, it was 'my' time and i
still do enjoy it.
If on the rare occasion i went over my points, which was
in all honesty not ever very many, i always clawed them back, and as for events
like xmas/party's/my wedding, i got back on the wagon straight away and went
back to class to face the music, better to know than pretend you will do
something before (that rarely works)
Oh and lastly, know your weak spots,
mine was and will always be chocolate, so i pointed in a crunchie or curly
wurly, that way i had something to look forward to in the evenings.

This
is all may seem very boring and focused but it's how i did it, you only get out
what you put in, make enough changes and treat it as a way of life as opposed to
a diet and it surprisingly becomes very easy.