WIWWIW - Eating What I Want When I Want - Sept 12in12 2022 Challenge

So you left me last in France, sipping Rosé by the pool having trotted round a 5km circuit run, or bounced through a 40 minute pilates session thinking that therefore I deserved the two course breakfast, three course lunch and four course supper… well it will be no surprise to anyone that I ended up 159lbs on September 9th…not quite hitting the 153 target…. but let’s just remember that I was 158.2lbs on August 8th and so despite the fact that I had decided my “intensive” exercise regime ie actually doing some for the first time in a few months, would save the day we all know that 90% of weight loss is earned in the kitchen ie what you don’t eat not spending 90% of my time in the kitchen eating - which is what I spent most of August doing!

So back to School for the children and back to the challenge for me…. I am fitter than I was a month ago… I wanted to be able to run 10k by Sept 9th and I more or less have done this with just a little walking up the final hill…. I am almost injury free with just small pains in my neck, thumb and ankle still during certain activities… most of my ulcers and blisters have healed and in general my eyes are looking white and bright and I am ready for a restart…

September is going to be dedicated to eating what I want when I want…. This might sound like I am about to have a massive blow out.. absolutely the contrary… when I have my darling children at home I find it impossible to constantly eat healthily or .. whisper it… DIET!  It is impossible I have four of the annoyances, all with different appetites, tastes and issues when it comes to eating and food…I tend to act like a sheep and follow them from meal to meal, snack to snack and just go along with it all without thought or care.   Then there is my husband, who considers eating a salad an abomination and that it is not a “real meal"… I should mention despite being over six feet tall he weighs less than me… a genuine irritation which when I threatened divorce if he didn’t start weighing more than me was simply met with the suggestion I went on a diet!  His secret is exercise.. he exercises at least six times a week with an intensity never seen outside of an Olympians home gym and has never eaten between meals in his life….This morning (Sunday) he set the alarm for 6.45am to go to the gym before a long plane journey to Texas… I obviously slept in, went to Church and then out for lunch with the four annoyances at a cafe not known for its healthy options… a club sandwich later I am here writing this contemplating how I am going to find cake…..

I digress… back to eating “What I Want When I Want”  “WIWWIW”. As I said this sounds dangerous but in reality what I mean is that I will not be pandering to other people’s ideas for meals or their timetables… sometimes I wake up and am hungry by 10am.. other days I could go till 2pm without needing anything other than black coffee.. similarly sometimes I have eaten two or three large meals by 4pm but don’t want anything again all day… this is fine but if I am having to cater for everyone else I need to accommodate their tastes and timetables… this leads me to eat at times that I don’t want to nor need to and to eat things that generally tend to be more substantial than I would have had myself…  I definitely end up eating more and mostly less healthily than if I had been alone…  

So September is going to be the month where I simply listen to my body… I will eat WIWWIW so if I wake up and crave eggs and toast I will eat that but then wait till my body tells me it wants to eat again.. this might not be till 4pm at which time I will eat and then probably not eat again until the next day… and so on… I will continue to exercise at least 5 times a week with at least two runs, two HITT sessions and one Pilates/Yoga session… 

There will be exceptions to eating WIWWIW as I have a number of parties and a girls trip to Spain but even within these I will try and follow my mantra of eating what I want when I want and not feel like I have to oblige the group by performing my “Labrador act”… this week I was likened by a friend to her Labrador who hoovers up the entire table of food before realising that she is full or the food even edible… I did not take offence at this comparison but sadly understood exactly what she meant as this is what I do do …. It needs to be moderated or even better stopped..the only times I ever have successfully lost weight and kept it off is when I have noted down what I am eating and exactly when and really listened to my body and asked myself constantly what I really wanted and needed… 

So no Labrador or Sheep behaviour this month… just self self self…. And to set a goal…let’s see… 153.9.. that sounds good I am sick of being in the 11 stone range!!  Onwards and Inwards!

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