It’s time to treat myself, after all 8lbs makes a difference to how I look.
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It’s time to treat myself, after all 8lbs makes a difference to how I look. So I decide to buy a new swim suit as I will be traveling to Lanzarote with my family for a winter sun holiday.
Into my specialist underwear shop, as that’s what you need to do when you have a very large chest. I explain to the assistant that I am ready to get out of my mummy togs. She takes one look at me and offers me two choices from her stock room (it is out of season).
I try on the first pair, nice, looks presentable, I’m still chunky but much better then the mummy togs, they’ll do.
The assistant is not happy with the result and I am encouraged to try my second option.
Wow, black with a silhouette how clever. I am so excited.
How much?
€120
WHAT?
I’ll give them to you for €80
(a quick rationalisation in my head, I’ll wear them a lot on holidays, I love them, and I don’t look huge in them) SOLD
“What ever you do” says the assistant, “ don’t wear them in water, you don’t want to damage the lycra”
I jump into the car of my awaiting husband 10 minutes after entering the shop, giddy with excitement, €80 lighter, bursting to tell him of my great buy.
“You spent €80 on a swim suit that you can’t get wet?”
Now that he has pointed this out it does seem ridiculous, I don’t care, let’s call it a sunsuit I concluded.
Giddy turns to disappointment when later in the week I attend my Motivation meeting and alas, I have gained a pound.
I really didn’t follow the program too closely as I suppose the week before when I was slap dash I still managed to lose weight.
Liz in Motivation explains that, this week is the most valuable of all that I will learn more by the week when I put on weight and when I think about it, I can now understand exactly what I did wrong.
I was getting a little complacent.
After my consultation, I leave feeling motivated again. One pound is not the end of the world. Next week here I come.
Check out my new Sunsuit in comparison to my mummy togs….
