I'm a geek wannabe. I love tablets (got a nexus 7 for Christmas and love it), I'm getting the hang of Pinterest and I am always on Instagram. Another thing I love is blogs. Baking blogs, music blogs, blogs about beauty, blogs about being thrifty. I love them all. Most of all, I love reading blogs about my favourite subject. Losing weight.
I have been following Slimming World since October 2012. I joined two days after hitting the big 3-0. I wanted to hit my thirties slim and happy, but that didn't quite work out as I had planned. I have been overweight since I hit puberty and after giving birth to two wonderful boys, my weight went from being a couple of stone over weight to five stone over weight. The two years between my boys births were filled with family, fun times and photos. I couldn't bear to look at pictures of me in my larger size and avoided being in them if I could. I decided I would lose weight for my thirtieth. I managed to lose a stone on my own before hitting a wall. I would love to say I tried everything and "nothing worked" but the truth is, I got bored. Bored of the salads when it was cold, bored of exercising and there always seemed to be some sort of excuse to "start again on Monday" rather than see it through a weekend. I also discovered my love of baking, especially now I had a family of my own to bake for. Showing them love through my baking is something I like to do the most. That didn't help matters.
I spent all of my twenties being unhappy with my weight. I decided I didn't want to go through my thirties the same way. I want to get out there and do things. Now I'm a stay at home mum full time, I want to join classes, do workshops, learn new skills. Meet people. Regain some sort of social life. I cant help but think losing weight would help with this. I have already lost some weight with SW (a stone so far) and have already been bitten by the "I want to do things" bug. I stay to group every week (I cant stress enough how much it helps me with my slimming journey) and as I'm meeting people and making friends, I would like to broaden my horizons further.
I decided today I would look for slimming world blogs. I have plenty of other blogs to follow but I find there's nothing like a little motivation then to look at blogs and read peoples stories, things they've tried, food diaries etc to keep me on the straight and narrow. After having a quick look, most blogs I was interested in didn't seem to be posting anymore. Everyone just seemed to have stopped! I do follow the wonderful blog Slimming Eats which is full of recipes and I do use now and then. (the chilli con carne and spag bol recipes are wonderful!) There aren't many that talk about peoples journeys though. So I thought, I can't be the only one after SW blogs! I will make one myself!
I intend on this blog being about my struggles and successes with SW, but with such a strong love of baking, I will no doubt add the odd recipe of cook book review etc. I also doubt these will be SW friendly but I shall see what I can do!
Thank you for taking the time out to read this and hope to see you around, have a Happy New 2013!
The Synful Baker x
