Slimming World Secrets

Welcome to Slimming World Secrets

Hi, and welcome to my new blog, Slimming World Secrets. I shall update my “About” page with a brief history of my Slimming World journey soon but, suffice to say, I’ve been a member for almost seven years and I’ve never got to Target.

The closest I came was back in 2017 when I’d lost 4st 3lbs and was 11lbs away from my 5st target. I started at exactly 15st and my target was, and always has been, to get down to 10st.

Back then, I was completing 200km Audax bike rides every weekend and as fit as a butcher’s dog. Then life got in the way and Slimming World became less of a priority, although I never stopped going to group.

By the start of January 2020, I’d regained all but 7lbs of the weight I’d lost. It was time to hit that reset button – and I needed to hit it so hard it smashed. Think: fire alarm!

Drawing the line and starting again (again!)

So I “rejoined” (I technically kept the same account but reset my start weight and date) and started all over again. Covid-19 arrived a few weeks later and, while people across the country were struggling with weight gain due to the rigours of lockdown, I was “on it”, starting to re-earn all my awards, including the Body Magic ones.

I was nominated for our group’s Woman of the Year title, I won the Miss Slinky honours and I was named Body Magic Star. Just for good measure, I won the Cook-Off event in Free Food February, held just before the world went mad the following month.

Unlike others struggling with the pandemic, I was relatively unscathed. My job was secure (I’ve been working from home the past year in a business which is doing well) and, as I’m single and have no kids, I didn’t have the whole home schooling nightmare to face.

Coronavirus lockdown gave me focus

Apart from missing my friends and family, and trips to the football, the pub and the theatre, I was doing OK – lockdown just meant that Slimming World became my main focus, and so 2020, from that respect, was a great year.

By the last weigh-in before Christmas, I’d lost 3½st in 2020 alone (so 4st overall). I could have reset my start weight to what it was back in 2014 – but I promised that I wouldn’t do that until I got back to my 2017 PB of 10st 11lbs (4st 3lbs lost), and I was still 3lbs above that.

Then Christmas happened and, instead of learning from my errors of previous festive periods, I had a terrible week, absolutely nailing the red wine and sherry, and eating cheese like it was going out of fashion. I gained 12½lbs in ONE WEEK. Oops!

It was time to smash that reset button again – and find something new to spur me on, hence this blog, Slimming World Secrets.