Thinking Slimmer month 3 update

Well I have been working with Slimpod and Thinking Slimmer for 3 months now, and I truly do know it has kicked in and is working.

I downloaded initially Drop 2 jean sizes which changes your relationship with food and leads to you eating less, as it changes the way you think about food. I used this alone for the first 6 weeks,  and I have not noticed a huge weight loss as some people are reporting but I am not overly bothered.

 This for me was never about a quick weighloss, though I can't help but feel a tad jealous of others that are managing just that, it is about a life long change, not a fad diet that as soon as I eat normal again the weight piles back on quicker than it came off, but something to see me through into my old age. I a aware that being 52 my metabolism is slowing down and they say a gain is not unusual, well I don't want that gain, and with the slimpod - Thinking Slimmer I hope for it not to be a problem.


So six weeks ago I  added in Over 50 fitness and well being - which really works in the same way by changing the way you feel about exercise and again it has motivated me to get up and move around more, go out walking more and even doing daft things like leg lifts, plunges and arm curls to a decent song that comes on the radio.

Now I must admit I have nor had a huge weight loss, this last fortnight  has shown a loss of 2lb, but that reflects to the monthly loss as the first two weeks of January I had no loss at all. But I have to agree with Thinking Slimmers advise on not worrying about the scales at all.  Put into perspective 2lb a month is nearly 2 stone a year, and I was aiming at 1 stone so nearly double.

No I am not making excuses for a bad lifestyle, I am still eating 1/3 - 1/2 of what I was before I started, I rarely feel hungry, and what I do eat is mostly healthy. Ok so I eat some home baking, but its one cake now not three, and  my baking is weird healthy stuff anyway. I use to drink one can of caffeine free diet coke a day before, I don't drink any now,and when I do I just don't enjoy it and end up throwing it down the sink once its gone flat I have taken up a relationship with Ribena along with the herbal teas and water I already drink. The Ribena is the normal one, not the low sugar artificial flavouring one, have stopped using that now in all drinks.


My biggest change this month is definitely in the amount of exercise, and type of exercise I am doing. Ideally I would love to have the money to renew my membership at Bannatynes and go swimming again 4 or 5 times a week as I did when I was at college and Uni, but oh is unemployed and funds will not permit.

Silly things like a good record comes on the radio and I will boogie along with it for the duration, or do some arm-curls and leg lifts, some lunges and stretches. Take the dog out every day, and I have even made friends with the chairobics hour that is on fitness tv every day. Its an hour and it really does get your heart rate up. I have also started using my hand weights during it, so have taken it from no weights, to light weighs and now onto the medium, and boy do they make your arm muscles work more than just on your own. You can also access the videos online so if you miss the start can do it with your computer instead


I sit upstairs watching tv and play with the hand weights whilst I'm doing that, and truly am finding I cant sit for too long without thinking "get up and do something, anything" so will go up and downstairs 4 or 5 times, clean out a cupboard or a draw. If something needs to go up the stairs instead of putting it at the bottom to go up next time I go I make a point of going up with it. All little things that make a big difference.

 I am measuring myself and still losing (small amounts) of inches, and upping my fitness levels so I am more than happy with how it is going and would recommend them to anybody.

So there you have it my 3 month update - and still happy and recommending to anybody who will listen.