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Diary of a dieter - week 8
Rachel Roberts, you stand accused of abusing your diet sheet. Do you have anything to say in your defence?Liz, my slimming class leader, has a favourite saying: ‘Nothing tastes as good as slim feels’. Despite initially laughing at its corniness, this little ‘nugget’ has helped me out of some tricky moments - those peanuts sitting seductively on the bar, the leftover Christmas chocolates in the office. I've rejected them all without a second thought.
But there's another well-known saying: rules are made to be broken.
The time: Wednesday 9.30pm.
The place: Planet Hollywood, London.
The crime: Eating a large piece of chocolate cake. With, erm, extra white chocolate shavings.
The defence: I had strawberries too.
90 per cent of the time, I find the Weight Watchers diet fairly easy to stick to. Day to day, all it takes is a little bit of organisation and willpower. I can pretty much get an idea of what my eating pattern is going to be for the day and anticipate dangerous moments. But there are special occasions - parties and eating out - when all I can hope for is damage control. And that was my excuse today.
It was a friend's birthday and I'd been doing well: I skipped the starter and had salmon, new potatoes and salad for my main course. But then her birthday cake arrived, a stunning creation of chocolate and cream, and my willpower wilted.
This weakened feeling was only augmented by the diet saboteurs. When you start to lose weight, people react strangely. Some get jealous that you're changing. And sitting there in Planet Hollywood I realised I was surrounded by well-meaning (and let's be honest, not so well-meaning) friends determined to get me to eat the cake: ‘Go on, treat yourself’, ‘What harm will it do?’ ‘Don't be so uptight’, they all said.
It's easy to end up feeling pressured to eat something you don't want. I've lost count of the amount of times in the past when I've found myself halfway through a doughnut before realising that I am eating it to keep someone else happy. I don't even really like doughnuts.
That's why you have to be strong, block out the voices, and remember what's important to you. Or, if you really want the cake, then go for it. And that's the choice I made. Let me tell you, chocolate cake has never tasted so good. After seven weeks without such indulgent food, I can only describe it as heavenly.
I'm not saying I didn't feel guilty for about five minutes. But once again momentary pain is outweighed by sheer pleasure. And the good news is that, when I weighed in yesterday, I discovered I'd lost another 1.5lb.
Original start weight: 13st 7lbs
End week one weight: 13st 2½lbs
End week two weight: 13st 3½lbs
End week three weight: 12st 11½lb
End week four weight: 12st 11lb
End week five weight: 12st 10lb
End week six weight: 12st 9lb
End week seven weight: 12.7½lb
End week eight weight: 12st 6lb
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