How can gaining weight be a good thing?

Okay, so here are the facts ... I've busted, BIG TIME.

I got cocky over the fact that I maintained my weight over the school holidays (even without going regularly to the gym) and as a result got REALLY over-confident over the last couple of weeks. In fact, last week I lay in bed, ate chocolate and drank red wine - when I wasn't drinking copious amounts of Chai Tea laced with full-cream soya milk and honey.

Recipe for total disaster.

Last week I was ill with the 'flu and was suffering with dreadful PMT and only went to the gym once, but I wasn't expecting the horror that greeted me from the scales yesterday. I can't reveal the figure (I'm too embarrassed) but it was higher than I have been in years.

So how can this be a good thing? Well, the shock of the figure scared the recent complacency completely out of me.

You see, I've been very slack about a few things of late;

• recording my food intake
• recording my exercise
• drinking 8 glasses of water
• eating 2 fruits a day
• eating 5-7 vegetables a day
• eating unprocessed grains
• avoiding alcohol
• restricting sugar
• leaving biscuits and chocolate alone
• cutting down on bad fats

In fact, of late I have done the complete opposite of all of that. Not deliberately of course, no-one actually wants to gain back lost weight, but I haven't been consciously following the Weight Watchers program.

Part of me totally resents having to be on the WW program - I hate having to restrict what I drink and eat, I am a total party girl after all. But the reality always hits me eventually, I have Poly Cystic Ovarian Disease and until they find a cure I will never be able to eat like a normal girl. Wine is like liquid fat to my thighs and stomach, and exercising 3 hours a day will not keep my weight down. The only thing that works for me is the WW program.

So I am reinvigorated. I got up at 5am and did 30 minutes walking around the suburb and then drove to the gym and ran on the treadmill for 45 minutes. Then I came home and had a healthy breakfast filled with fat free protein and veggies.

I have slipped, but I have not fallen. I am back and I will get these kilos off before Christmas.

Regards

Kate