Okay, I must admit I celebrated the first couple of days, have been really sick with a cold and although I have gone to the gym, I felt worse than ever on the weekend. I've been running around here, there and everywhere and have still felt reasonably awful so decided today I wasn't going to the gym because my body needed some sort of rest. I have been watching what I eat like a hawk today because yesterday was a complete blowout as I ate a tiny piece of mudcake for a birthday and then had a sensible choice for dinner among the options when we had Chinese which did not include the old favourites of dim sims and spring rolls (I should have just had a sandwich at home methinks!).
Today has been good to me so far though as I've received news that I start a new job on Wednesday (thanks Derry!!) at a winery in the gorgeous Barossa Valley, which is only 30 minutes from home but in the opposite direction of going to the city. It will be nice and peaceful driving there with nothing but rolling hillsides of vineyards to go past instead of being stuck bumper to bumper at 20 sets of traffic lights to get into the city. My biggest problem now is what do I wear?????!!!!!! I tried on my suit pants that I would normally wear for work previously but since my waistline has shrunk considerably, the pants no longer fit and look ridiculous on me!!!! The only suit I have is a jacket and skirt combination that I wore to the interview last week but I don't have any tops to wear underneath it really that look nice enough nor do I have winter shoes to wear with a pair of stockings seeing as the weather has done an about face and we are experiencing rain and cold wind. It is definitely a nice dilemma to have though!!
I think I need to look at maintenance from a different angle this week and try to figure out how to achieve a good balance without going overboard. It was easy losing weight because there was a steely resolve to get to goal but now that I have reached it, relaxing a little has taken on a life of its own and I'm now having to re-evaluate how to cope with those extra points seeing as I didn't have as many as I do now even when I started. I guess that is why we have 6 weeks to manage our weight. The other hard part about maintenance is the fact that I am not allowed to lose any more weight either so if I don't use up the points then I will not really be maintaining.
Oh well, I guess on Wednesday I will see if my week has had a positive or negative effect on my weight.
Until next time,
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