For The Future Of The Girl I’ve Always Wanted 2 Be

Ups and downs of my Slimming World, PCOS & Metabolic Syndrome Journey

[weightlossand]

Back to basics

Happy New Year you beauties! I hate to say it but Christmas is over and it’s about time we got back to normality. (Nope, no more pigs in blankets for breakfast!)

Now, I know I have seen a bunch of people who are struggling to get back on plan. And trust me, I’ve been in this position a million times before however, you know how good you’re going to feel once you step on those scales and see your results again throughout the year!

I have 3 easy tips to get you back where you need to be! (And trust me I am NO angel, I had to kick myself up the backside also!):

GET BACK TO BASICS!

1. Take those few remaining boxes of Christmas chocolates OUT of the house. If you can’t see it, you won’t be attempted to eat it ✅

(Or even better take them to work and get the rest of the office to eat them!)

2. Write a complete list of all your favourite ON PLAN meals. I used spag bowl, risotto and hearty meals to fill me up! Create them all over January to start and begin to fall in love with the plan again. ✅

3. *The most important* Remember exactly WHY you started in the first place. I know you may have put on a few Christmas pounds but I know everyone probably has.

Remember why you started your journey and how you felt when you got the results you hoped for ❤️🥇✅

These are my simple 3 top tips for you to get back to it and get loosing this new year! You seriously can do it. And just remember the rewarding feeling you get when you begin to see the person you’ve always wanted to be in the mirror.

Good Luck lovelies!!! 🙏🏻✨

TP x

[weightlossand]

Healthy Heart, Healthy Mind

Now I am no bloody nutritionist that goes to the gym 6 times a week and preaches to eat avacado on toast 5x a day. I’d like to think I am...... human. Who likes a drink at the weekend and has got to dabble in one or (four?) kinder minis now and then.

However, one thing I will take from these crazy nutritionists and gym crackers, is that a healthy heart leads to a healthy mind. I’m sure you can remember when I wrote my first blog post and explained some hard times I went through growing up.

I was in a black cloud for a few years and I piled on the weight, and I can honestly say weight really does effect your mind. If you’re not feeling great in yourself, then why the f**k would you give a damn about anything else? You loose sense of dressing nicely, sleeping all day and eating whatever the hell you want.

And that’s exactly what happened to me a few years ago.

But once I started to figure out my path and my journey and how to get a grip on my eating habits... it’s like everything changed.

I am super lucky to of had a great support system around me, and I’m thankful for getting my head in the game. And I want you to know also, that if you’re in that rut, you CAN do it. And this is coming from the bottom of my heart and someone who really just struggled and struggled day in and day out. Believe in yourself 💫

And with that, I got an early Christmas present of -2LBS loss this week!!

Hope you’re all keeping well!

Here’s a photo of me at my lowest point, to a couple of weeks ago (yes, I know I am the queen of pulling shit faces)

Have a great week guys and remember, don’t suffer in silence ❤️

[weightlossand]

Guess who’s back!?

Hello! Jesus, it’s been a while but I had a little lightbulb moment the other day - and generally just realised, I loved this blog and I’m bringing it back!

SO, okay it’s been a while. But I am STILL on plan and still doing my thing. Again, I’m not going to say it’s been easy because it hasn’t but I’m slowly loosing the weight. I take 0.5lbs losses near enough every week and sometimes it’s hard to take because hopefully one day my dream of loosing more than that in a week will come true - but let’s be real here.

My body’s a bitch.

In other news - We’ve actually made the decision to not attend Slimming World group anymore due to funds and I am a tad scared. I haven’t ever been the best when I’ve not been going to group, and in the past I’ve fallen off the wagon. But generally I think somethings changed this time! So.. hopefully this time next week when I am writing a new post, I’ve not drowned myself in pizza and beer. (Reminder: you’ve got this T)

Anyway - I hope you lot haven’t forgotten about me! I’m back and ready to share my rambling with you again (yay!)

Here’s a recent picture of me looking like a bit of a tool x enjoy, and have a great week! x

[weightlossand]

No title - just the truth

I could lie to you all and say that I’ve had a great week and I’ve been running and it’s all been really good and exciting and I’m loosing loads but I’m just not.

I’m not focused, I’ve had some big changes happen and I’ve been completely off plan. Weight had gained around my face again and I haven’t ran or been to boxing - which I actually started loving doing and I just feel like right now, I don’t have the correct balance.

Sometimes in your weight loss journey you just.... give up.

I can’t sit back and say I’m happy about it and I can just ‘get back to it’, because I don’t feel like it right now, but I just can’t get back to the 17 stone Taygan again.

Someone mentioned something about my weight at the weekend which I think has added to the spiral even more and right now, I just feel defeated.

I know usually I am very upbeat and positive, but I would be lying to myself and you lot if I said my eating plan and everything this week was great.

Please motivation, come back!!!

I hope you guys are all ok and doing well (better than me and my negative nelly self!)

Don’t take this as me being a negative impact on you too, we’re only human and sometimes obstacles knock you down more than others.

I will do my best in this whole world to restart in the morning, but I may have to wait until next week.

But don’t forget to have a great week yourselves xxx

[weightlossand]

DID SOMEONE SAY...RUN!!?

Hello you lot!

Apologies for the late blog post this week BUT ya’ know.... life happened.

 I know you were all so upset you didn’t have a hilarious blog post to read this week whilst you were couped up on your desks at work whilst waiting for the sandwich trolley to come around. 

I am currently sitting in the 14 STONES. 14 stone 13 to be exact. Now, I literally haven’t been that weight since I flew from the nest the first time so I am ecstatic. I hope you’ve all had good losses and of course, are still sticking to plan even though January is slowly coming to a end!

ANYWAY, this week I am going to talk about RUNNING. 

(and no, not the kind of run you do to catch the ice cream van, or to your local Tesco to get the last half price pizza) 

Actual, excersize RUNNING. 

Now, i’ve never been a runner. I’ve never liked running and when I have attempted running, my trousers have fallen down (or shall I say 5 year old extra small joggers pulled out from the back of the wardrobe), my headphones have slipped out my ears and have tangled around my neck and everyones starring at me like a chicken flapping in the wind (and i’m not lying, the first run I did last week.... I can confirm, this DID happen)

BUT, like with everything in life, get up and try, try again. SO i did! But this time using a app named ‘Couch To 5K’. In really short words, week by week it slowly builds you up to eventually attempt a 5K run. You can choose your ‘coach’ who talks you through the process when you’re running and encourages you to continue. 

It starts off on WEEK 1 and works through to WEEK 9. I honestly can say from nearly completing week 1 - I have (surprisingly) ENJOYED it. I can barely believe I am saying those words but really, I did. 

If you’re thinking of attempting to run again, or even continue running but you need a bit of extra encouragement - download it! It starts off super light and super easy (for some cough cough) and builds you up from there. 

I am SUPER impressed with it and hopefully, i’ll be seeing my fellow non runners out and about giving it a go!! And don’t be embarrassed if you are like me - a flapping chicken in the wind. Because even if chickens can’t fly... we can attempt to try. 

Have a great week guys 

xx

[weightlossand]

Christmas Belly? Nah!

I convinced myself to bite and bullet and... weigh myself this week. (My life is turning into such fun)

-3LBS!

That’s half my chrimbo weight GONE. Thank the holy lord our mate, jesus.

So yeah! I’ve been back on plan for a solid week, 9 days of focus and back on the excersize scheme as well. (Even though I REALLY didn’t want to) and I’ve got to tell you about our recent gym experience.

As you all know, me and my father go boxing and swimming every week.

Now, we’d been out the game because of Christmas ect and basically to put it bluntly, we’d been sitting on or asses eating toblorone and Yorkshire puddings for 2 weeks SO, we decided to try out the dreaded... GYM.

Full of the big numptys who strut about looking at themselves in the mirror after lifting one finger and well, people like us. (Who know nothing about the gym or what we’re doing) so let’s just say, we won’t be returning.........because somehow punching the shit out of each other is better and more enjoyable!

BUT, Back to swimming tonight, so hopefully we’ll smash a few lengths!

I hope everyone who has started their weight loss resolutions is smashing it and all is going well!

I’ve been using this quote this week to change my mindset, I find little quotes like this can go a long way......

So even if you find something inspirational online like a quote or even a transformation photo to keep you going, keep them saved on your phone so you can refer back to them when you’re feeling low!

Hope you have a wicked week!!! Xx

[weightlossand]

Happy New Year! New You!

So the last post, through to Christmas through to new year … to now has just gone so quick!

I thought I’d leave it a few weeks until I posted again just to let the ‘Christmas period’ pass.

And I’m telling you, EVERYTHING passed my lips this Christmas. I told myself I’d try and be sensible but let’s face it, I had fun and so did my belly.

I put on a good 6LBS + but the line is drawn and it’s my second day on plan again, and I even managed to get to the gym tonight. So I’m well and truly, shall we say ‘back in the game’.

Now I know the New Years resolution thing is often ridiculous. I see it everywhere….. “I’m going to be a better person”, “I’m not going to eat cheese ever again”, “I will go to gym for 365 days” … I mean I’m all up for supporting everything, but if you’re not guna do it, try and make it a reachable goal… or atleast, sensible.

Cause let’s face it, who has got the time to go to the gym every day and who the hell is going to cut out cheese?!?!?! Not me.

But, my one big goal I’ve got is to be 2 stone lighter by April (my birthday)

NOW, some say impossible but I say, watch me.

I’m determined, just like you all should be too! It’s a new chance, new chapter.

Just draw a line under the Xmas period or even 2017, and let this be your first new chapter to your new book you’re about to create.

Have a first, amazing week!!

Xxx

[weightlossand]

12 days till Christmas!!

Sorry to start this on a bad note but oh my god, I just attract every illness that’s going round.. I swear!! I’ve been pretty much cuddled up in my bed for a couple of days with the flu which in someways has been good.... (because I haven’t eaten like a pig for once) but sitting up at 3am surrounded by a mountain full of used tissues smothered in menthol rub with a blocked nose isn’t all that great!! But I’ve stayed on plan. And that’s all that matters.

So weigh in last week was... surprising.

I don’t know what is going on but I got another HUGE loss.... 4 bloody pounds!!!!!!! I know I’ll say this every time I loose weight from now but I actually am the lightest I’ve been in about 3/4 years... I am kinda shocked. But thats the thing with slimming world....... youre actually allowed to pig out on all your speed and free food and you don’t turn into a elephant, you loose weight?! What a miracle!

ANYWAY, enough about me.

It’s CHRISTMAS in just 12 days!

Now I don’t know about you lot but so far On the present side, I haven’t had to wrestle any other Christmas shoppers for the last tin of shortbreads in TK MAXX and I can actually say everything is officially done! But on the ‘diet’ side of things, I think we’re all a bit anxious.

The smelly cheese boards, the Yorkshire’s, the puddings , the wine and don’t forget.... the pigs in blankets.

It can be a very shall we say ‘naughty’ time of year but you can’t let syns and diets ruin your time that is so precious these days. Your time with your family and friends.

This year will defiantly be the first year in I think .... ever that I will be avoiding stuffing my face with every bit of food in sight. Yes, I may still indulge in ‘certain’ items (mum you better make extra Yorkshire’s hun) but I will generally watch what goes in my mouth.

I’ve always loved veggies so time to just stack up my plate with that well needed speed food! And it’s lucky most people hate a sprout, because I bloody love ‘em!!

To wrap this up, please just enjoy the few days you have with your loved ones. Don’t miss out on the family time around the table because you’re scared or worried that the pounds might pile. (Just maybe pass on the 3rd pudding and the 4th cheese board of the day!)

We’ve all got New Years resolutions and you can make sure those extra pounds are long gone after the festivities.

But for now, just enjoy yourselves and the wonderful spirit that is... Christmas.

Lots of love and have a great one 🎄 x

[weightlossand]

Turn In Tuesday

I AM CURRENTLY (well probably not now) THE LIGHTEST IVE BEEN IN 3 YEARS!!

I had a bloody good week last week! I found out I had lost not 1, not 2.... but 5 POUNDS bringing me down to the lightest I’ve been in 3 years.

I was ecstatic and still am! But often us slimming worlders reward ourselves. And I’m talking... REWARD OURSELVES.

SO mums birthday saturday, 3 course meal in Zizzi. All the carbs, all the cheese , all the chocolate , all the prossecco. It happened, again. Deja-Voo anyone?

But, following my own advice which I did actually have to go back and read last weeks blog post.......get back on the wagon. (See I told each and everyone of you that wagon should be broken in bits in the middle of a roundabout)

You’ll all be happy to hear.. I’ve been back on plan since though but I just can’t stop thinking about that calazone I smashed in about 8.25 seconds.

Unfortunately that calazone and I will no longer be friends if the scales go up!

Anyway, enough about Italian food.

Again, this blog post is just a second reminder not to beat yourself up if ‘life’ happens and if the scales do actually end up with a few extra pounds, atleast you had fun.

And honestly guys, if you are trying to shift some weight.. don’t make yourself unhappy by eating 1 lettuce leaf a day and starving yourself cause that just never works (trust me I’ve tried it)

Check out Slimming World.

Unlimited pasta and potatoes.

That is all.

Have another good week guys,

Not long until... chriiiisttttmasssss

Xxx

[weightlossand]

Ittttsssssss MONDAY

I’ll be honest with you lot. I wasn’t looking forward to getting up this morning..

I had drank a lot of booze for my work staff night out this weekend, probably smoked one too many cigarettes and had some...not ALOT, but still, naughty food.

But then it was just a realisation that you are simply.... just going to fall off the wagon sometimes.

(And TRUST ME, I’m surprised that wagons still bloody going and hasn’t trailed off into a ditch off the A40)

But, the stupid error I always used to make is continuously beat yourself up about it and carry on eating shit and then it just all ends up in one vicious cycle.

Now, I’m not going to lie and say I didn’t pop over to Greggs and get a ‘still hungover’ tuna and salad baguette.... because I did. (I did count the calories though I swear!) and for you slimming world lot, that was 18.5 of my daily syns. Whoops.

What I’m really trying to say is ... we’re only human. I’ve pushed myself now so get back into the game. I’ll wake up tomorrow make all the beautiful slimming world food I want and I’ll be straight back to where I was before the weekend

And also tomorrow, I’ll walk into my boxing class and sweat that tuna baguette, chicken quesadilla and jäger right out of me and smash it (and hopefully not punch my dad in the face again.)

Just remember...

Don’t worry.

You’ll find yourself again and if you’ve fallen off that wagon, put it behind you and start a fresh the next day. Don’t let it become a weeks worth of falling off.

You’ve got this!

Have a good week!!!

[weightlossand]

[weightlossand]

The First Post

SO! This is way over due and I am literally talking WAY bloody over due.

Ive been documenting pretty much most of my slimming world journey on my instagram: tpslimmingworld but I’ve decided to start a open blog for everyone to read. SIMPLE!

To start off this first post here’s a little story about me:

I’m 22, loud and love a party. That’s how people know me and that’s how I’ve always been PLUS, I’ve always been known as the chunky monkey. (Nobody’s ever actually called me that, even though I defiantly would’ve preferred that!) Throughout my school life I used to eat ALOT, get my mates to buy me all the canteen paninis , even when my mum and dad spent their mornings making me healthy lunches. I was a secret eater for a lot of my teen years, I carefully crafted out times when my parents would go to sleep to go make a mountain sarnie of ham, butter and crisps and then go and knick all the penguin bars and hide the wrappers under the sofa. (I once even ate a whole box of chocolate brownie nutri grains in about 2 minutes flat.)

Anyway! Besides all that, I loved food.

As unfortunately a lot of people do at school, I got bullied for my size. I’m not going to blame my whole entire overweight spiral from that because let’s face it, I just bloody loved a good sarnie... or 5.

I struggled a lot with depression as I grew into my teens, I never knew exactly where it stemmed from because I always had such amazing friends and a wicked family surrounding me but I guess, my feelings about my self esteem and my weight took me down that path. I struggled a lot with self harm which a lot of people never knew about (because let’s face It im bloody hilarious and I’m always the one to crack the jokes). I kept a lot of it to myself and food was always just a safety net for me.

As months went on, weight just gained and gained .. I stepped on the scales before I moved from home and I remember being around 14/15 st at 17 but me being me, I just swept it under the carpet. I never wanted to talk about my weight, I’ve always been very super sensitive about the topic and I just shoved anyone aside who said I needed to watch my weight.

I eventually moved to Brighton to start uni and lucky (if you can call it that ;)) met my girlfriend of 3 years, Courtaney.

Now we LOVED to eat. Fat roasts, McDonald’s, good food out, pies .... ANYTHING. We were as bad as each other and as you do when you’re in a happy relationship, you get comfortable. (Cheers for that babes)

This is when I got to my heaviest. On febuary of this year 2017, I weighed my heaviest. 17 STONE.

3 stone off of 20 stone at 21 years of age.

To me at the time, I always felt big but I just kinda’ again... brushed it under the carpet. (I was good at that)

Now a bit graphic for any lads who may be reading this, but I have always suffered with irregular periods. My whole teenage life, I’ve had a rough time. Either really painful ones, long ones sometimes for a month plus and just really bloody random ones - so, I decided to pluck up he courage and take myself to the doctor ....finally. I had a few blood tests (thanks to those numerous nurses who can NEVER find my veins and persevered haha), I had some tests and a very lovely nice and awkward smear kind of thing.

I was diagnosed this year with PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) and Metabolic Syndrome. 2 quite common Syndromes in over weight women and also is really hard to loose weight with this.

I researched into a few bits and their are very tiny slim chances of having children..so to be told that at 22, didn’t leave me feeling all that lovely. BUT, I was advised by the doctor I had about 5.5 stone to loose before I was in a healthy weight catergory for my age and height. She started me on metformin which is a diabetic medicine to help kick start weight loss but as I like a drink I stopped taking them as they can react quite badly with alcohol. (Standard Taygan)

I was morbidly obese. I still am, but today writing this, I have lost 1.5 stone.

Me and dad do boxing training once a week and we swim once a week. I occasionally punch him in the face at boxing (sorry mate) and You’ve probably all seen me on my little shitty bike pedalling around falling into the roads with shopping bags flying everywhere too. (I’m not professional yet)

I started with Slimming World about a year ago but have been on a rocky weight loss journey so far. My head is in the game and I have been absolutely motivated since I got told the news from the doctor but I have one hell of a journey in front of me.

And that is why I am starting this blog.

This is for every lady out there who suffers like me or anyone who really just struggles so much with loosing weight or being over weight.

I will log everything I do, everything I eat and my weight loss journey as time goes by.

If you want to change, I want to inspire and help people and hopefully one day you can look at this blog and say.... I did it too.

So simply. That’s it.

Xx