From the keyboard of Dr Jan

I believe it was Joanna Lumley in Absolutely Fabulous! who said “I’m thin and gorgeous!”.

I’m thin, but you can’t see it yet

Last Tuesday I joined Weight Watchers with Ruth, and we’ve been counting points all week.

Once we’d joined and filled in all the paperwork we were weighed. I was more than slightly alarmed to see the numbers which appeared on the digital display. 20 stones 1 pound! That’s 127.5 kilos in the new money.

This evening I went for the second time (Ruth is working away this week, so I was on my own). I weighed in at 19 stones and 8 pounds. Which means I’ve lost 7 pounds. That’s half a stone!

Hurrah!

I had the highest loss of everyone in the meeting. The next highest was 5 lbs.

I suspect that as this is my first week the new diet is having the greatest impact because it’s hugely different to my previous intake. So, I’m not expecting to continue at this rate

From the discussion in the meeting, it seems that men decide to lose weight and ‘just go for it’. They make a plan and follow it until they reach their target weight.

We were also discussing how we motivated ourselves. I didn’t say so at the time, but I just need to think how gorgeous I’ll be when I’m thin and that normally sorts me out

I am thin, you just can’t see it yet