This post is not sponsored or anything like that at all. I do Weight Watchers for me. However, throughout this post I have included referral links for Weight Watchers. This means that if you use my referral link* to sign up to Weight Watchers, not only do you receive a month for free, I then receive a month free. It’s a win win!
Oh hey, it’s been a couple of weeks! This year I have been terrible at this blogging thing and the only thing I can do is apologise. I keep saying that I am going to post more regularly, then I never do, so I won’t promise it this time. Let’s just hope that I post more! Anyways, enough about that! Here is another update post. This one is mainly about me starting Weight Watchers. (Well in fact, this entire post is me talking about WW *).
So hi. I’m Ciara, and I hate how I look. YAY! I’ve not enjoyed how I look for a while now, but it was around March that I said I needed to do something. And, as many a people who say they are going to do something, it took me a while to set something in stone. I kept coming up with excuses to put off doing this. However, one night when I couldn’t sleep at the very end of April, I open my laptop and get sucked into one of those internet wormholes. Eventually, it led me to a site about checking my BMI. So, naturally I type in all my measurements and it comes out with ‘Obese’.
Well, it’s fair to say that I cried. I cried a lot. I mean, I kinda knew it, but I always thought to myself, ‘no, I’m not as bad as that, I’m just overweight’. But, reading that word, and then going and looking at myself in the mirror, I finally admitted it to myself. Not going to lie, it was one of the hardest moments of my life. I cried, A LOT!
Still stuck in the internet wormhole that I was in, I decided that it would be best to look up obesity. THAT WAS A MISTAKE! It made me feel a bajillion times worse! But, I’m also grateful that I did look it up. I learnt that me, at the weight that I am, my risks of heart disease, diabetes (I already knew both of these, so this was not a shock), strokes and cancer (HUGE SHOCK) were severely increased. This here has really spurred me on to change.
I cried a lot that night. It was a tough night. Not only at the time (and still am) was I suffering with body confidence issues, I was also at an increased risk of serious illness. So, I researched a whole lot about what was the best way to lose weight. That night, I looked through so many diet plans and exercises, however I settled on Weight Watchers.
I never even considered Weight Watchers until I saw that Gabriella Lindley was on WW*. I watched all of her What I eat in a Day Videos and fell in love with the idea of the plan. If you know me, I did Slimming World for a hot minute, and it didn’t work for me. It didn’t work for Gabriella either, which is what made me try WW. Let me tell you, I’m loving it!
I’ve been on the Weight Watchers plan for just ever so slightly over a month and in that time I am proud to say that I have lost an entire stone. It’s not much, however, it is a start! I would say that the plan has taken me some time to get used to and get my head around it. The WW app has been a complete life saviour! I don’t know how I would survive without it! Being able to scan my favourite foods to see how many SmartPoints it is, BRILLIANT!
I don’t go to meetings. Currently, I am not at a place in my head where I could go to one. I just use the app. This app has honestly changed my life! It is so simple to use and makes this whole weight loss journey that little bit easier.
Unfortunately, I have received plenty of criticism and not so well wishes ALREADY about Weight Watchers. Some have said that it’s a fad diet. Whilst others have said that I will put the weight I lose back on. I have even had some people who say that they have started diets and have said, ‘yeah, they don’t work. I have put all the weight, I lost whilst on those plans, back on’. Please refrain from doing so. It makes me feel even worse! However, I’m using it as a method to help encourage me even further than I already am! Also, I so want this weight to stay off!
I feel like Weight Watchers is one of the few plans that actually teaches you how to eat and about portions (where I was going horribly wrong!). These lessons that I am learning I am going to try and cary through to keep this weight off!
Can we also talk about that I am planning on starting Couch to 5k today as well! Yep, that’s right, you read that correctly! I want to start running! Perhaps we should call a doctor and see if I’m feeling ok! 😂
So all in all, I am feeling better than I ever was! One stone down, quite a few more to go!
P.S. This blog is defo not becoming a blog about weight loss. I just want to keep you all in the loop about my life and what is going on in it. When I asked on my Instagram if people wanted me to do some stuff on my blog about Weight Watchers the response was an overwhelming YES, so I will do some more stuff on here about it, in the future, but for now, this blog is all about me!
P.P.S. Not all plans/diets work for everybody. We all have different bodies and different insides that react differently to different things. Weight Watchers appears to be working for me. It may not work for you. If you need help or want advice on losing weight, the best person to talk to is your GP. They can give you the proper advice on what to do that is best for you.
