First Meeting of Lighterlife!

So now I face 100 days of eating nothing but what look like dodgy cup-a-soups. Am I mad?

My first meeting was interesting. Six other women, all overweight. One lady didn’t look remotely obese to me. She is very tall, and is an example of someone who “carries it well”. She doesn’t seem to have a tummy at all! However, she said that she was 15 stone when she started 2 weeks ago. She has lost 13 lbs in a fortnight. Like me, she has children. Apart from our counsellor, I don’t think the others do. Another girl looks like she has a lot to lose. This was her second meeting. She lost 10 lbs in her first week. Girl number 3 who is very enthusiastic about the programme, has lost a stone in her first 2 weeks. A young girl who just started in the middle of last week, I don’t know how much she lost, 4 lbs or something. Bless her, she is just dying to get into a bikini! Another lady is here for her second time around having lost 3 stone before, but started regaining. And the other person who was at the information session, thank goodness, so I’m not the only new person. Something that struck me about these women is that they are all pretty. I don’t mean that in a glib way, they genuinely are pretty women. They are the type of girls who would turn heads in a club or a bar despite their extra weight. Perhaps that is part of the reason they got so overweight. They carry it well, it suits them. They all have lovely swishy hair and clear skin. I feel like the frump of the group to be honest. The slummy mummy. I suppose the fact that I am there at all is a sign that I haven’t given up on myself just yet.

It is interesting that we are all on the same amount of food packs despite our different heights and sizes. In Weightwatchers you could consume more “points” if you were bigger. I wonder if the men have more food packs. They apparently do the foundation programme for a shorter period of time. There is a lot of emphasis on clothes among the women’s group that I imagine is not replicated in the men’s group. What is their emphasis. Fitness? Pulling? :D