Maybe if I lost some weight...

I went to the information session for Lighter Life today, having seen an advert for it somewhere and then doing a google search. I’m surprised how much it costs, £66 per week! Blimey. But then, I wonder how much I spend on food and drink every week for my large body? The DVD was persuasive, lots of stories showing people who were very overweight, who now look amazing. They seem almost evangelical about their diet. I am in two minds. I always sneered at the idea of Slimfast. The sheer idea of putting nasty artificial additive laden strawberry flavour milk shake into my gut instead of lots of healthy fresh fruit and veg. It just didn’t make any sense to me. I did not realise until this info session that the diet involves abstaining completely from ALL food, even skimmed milk in your tea, and instead subsisting on “food packs” taking the form of sachets of powder, to make soups and milkshakes. There are also strange looking breakfast bar things. I am trying to persuade myself that it is more like astronaut food, rather than desperate to lose weight food. But I am not sure I will be able to get my head around it. There is only two of us at the info session. The other girl at the info session seems keen to start. She has her wedding in about six months, and this provides her with a very solid goal. She hasn’t even gone in to a bridal dress shop yet because she is dreading the fitting so much. She wants to start enjoying it rather than dreading it. I have a family wedding in a few months too, and while I will barely be a blip in people’s attention, I don’t want people to be looking at me in amazement that I have managed to gain so much weight since they last saw me. Although a size 14 in trousers (albeit with a sizeable muffin top), I am anything from a 16 to 18 on top.

I have to do SOMETHING. And this looks like it might be the right thing. It takes away food altogether for a while, so you can focus on losing weight at first, rather than getting confused with portion sizes and getting tempted to eat more than you should, and then getting fed up and saying “sod it, I’m having chips!” The great motivation is the fast weight-loss, with people losing up to a stone in their first two to three weeks. My battle with my weight is largely psychological. Losing a stone in itself would be a great boost, and would, I feel, spur me on.

The counsellor, LLC is a nice, confident woman. I feel at ease with her. I hope that the other girl comes back for the first session so I am not the only newbie.

I take home the magazine LLC gives me and read it from cover to cover. The transformations truly look amazing. I’m hooked. Put me on it NOW! Oh well. Perhaps I should make the most of my last few days of my bad diet. Bring on the pizza…