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> Let’s: Think Peace, Act Peace, and Spread Peace. John worked for it all his life. He said, “there’s no problem, only solutions.” Remember, we are all together. We can do it, we must.

First in a series of posts celebrating the beautiful region we now call home.

I normally hang on until Thursday to post an update, but this news is so good it can’t wait…. tonight Mr Scale showed a loss of 4.5lbs. This takes my total weight loss to…

Seven stones, three and a half pounds

or

46 kilo

or…

ONE HUNDRED AND ONE AND A HALF POUNDS (please excuse the caps, I’m rather excited).

I achieved my Christmas target three weeks before Christmas! I have never, ever experienced success like this, the plan is easy, my group is lovely, my Consultant is an angel (and so are all the others) … at the risk of sounding like an advert, I have to say if anyone reading this feels they need to do something about their weight, the answer is simple – join a Slimming World group. It works.

And it’s going to keep on working, through Christmas and beyond for all the other exciting targets along the way. So the journey, as ever, continues!

And so another month on the plan ends, and this time I have just ever so slightly fallen short of my stone (14lb) a month target. That’s fine by me because a) as time goes on the losses will slow down, b) there were only 4 meetings during November and c) dammit, I’d lost 7.5lb the previous week! Last week I lost 2lb, which takes my total loss to:

6 stone, 13 pounds or 97 pounds or 43 kilos.

Not bad, all things considered. Once again, I’ve done the best I can this week, sticking to mainly Original, and keeping an eye on my home scales which give a not-entirely accurate but good enough idea that things are going in the right direction. And they appear to be, so fingers crossed.

Last night was our Christmas party, and it was an absolute blast. Big, big thanks to Katrina for organising such a great bash. I had a great time celebrating my ability to do things that weren’t possible 12 months ago, namely wearing a gorgeous dress and dancing myself daft for 2 hours. I went for the option of dancing like no-one’s watching even though there were several people watching. Hey, I had a lot to celebrate – I’ve lost nearly 100lb in seven months! If that ain’t worth dancing about, I don’t know what is.

So what am I hoping for when I tremble at the mercy of the mighty Mr Scale tomorrow? Well, it would be nice to get that 100lb target nailed 3 weeks before Christmas, but as long as I get that one pesky pound off for my 7 stone award, I’ll be cool. I’m heading into a really exciting part of my weight loss journey, where lots of targets await, and lots more changes. The middle of the journey looks like it will be more exciting than the start, so bring it on… the journey continues!