To be really undecided and nervous about returning to my slimming class?

[mameulah]

So, a month ago I joined a slimming class for the first time. The first 13 days of being a member were amazing. I have never felt so good. Not in years! Then I returned for my second weigh in and I was delighted to find out that altogether I had lost six and a half pounds. I could not have been more pleased.

Then...during the 'feedback chat' part of the meeting it became apparent that the weigh in woman had told me the wrong weight. I had in fact only lost half a pound.

For those of you who have not battled with your weight I don't expect you to understand. I cannot express my disappointment.

So, in true me fashion I fell right off the wagon and have eaten everything and anything for two weeks.

Now, I paid three months in advance. So I really feel as though I have to go back. But I am so, so worried about the huge amount of weight I am bound to have put on in the two weeks I have missed class. Even the thought of it is embarrassing.

Please, please, say something that makes me want to go back. And not make some bullshit excuse and end up in putting on another stone.

YY OP. I was overweight for several years and by the end I was just thinking, WHY didn't I tackle it then when I was only four pounds overweight and it would have taken no time at all (I was a teenager at the time and four pounds... Then half a stone... Then a stone... ad infinitum all felt massive next to my tiny friends stuffing their gobs with Poptarts. But only later on did I see how small it was and easy it would have been if I had only given myself a month or two, rather than thought, I MUST shift it by this weekend - and then binge when I hadn't). No matter how much you have to lose now, if you get stuck in this cycle you'll have more to lose next year; trust me.

And the reason I always wanted it gone by this weekend was because I wanted to start enjoying life again: it consumed every waking thought and I couldn't enjoy anything while I was fat.

So go back to SW if that's the kickstart you need OP, but when you fall off the wagon look at your jar of pebbles and imagine that's what you could have been putting ON if you had never started, and keep going.

Thank you Edit, very wise words. In fact, thank you everyone. I really am fed up with feeling and being fed up.

I long for a wardrobe of stylish tops and lovely jeans. I barely even bother anymore. So silly.

It's doable! I lost 6 & half stone in 13 months a few years ago, then I got pregnant. I didn't really put much weight on while pregnant - it was all when DS2 was small. I went to SW 3 weeks ago and am horrified to find that I'd put 5 stone back on. 2 weigh ins later I'm 6 & half pounds down and I will get there. You will too but you should go back - everyone will be more caught up in their own drama than yours

I'm so sorry for her screw up or your misunderstanding, that would have been devastating. If you'd just been told you'd 'only' lost half a pound you'd probably have been annoyed, but fine, but thinking you'd lost 6.5lbs then finding it was 'only' the .5 :(

I'd bet my house on every single one of the people there having self sabotaged at one time or another, most of them frequently. Be top seeing it as something unusual and get your bum back there!!

If you want some SW inspiration, friendship and cheering up, you should read wombats thread. It's brilliant.

I'll be checking in to see if you've been back young lady!

Wombats thread

Oh thanks, I have had a peek at Wombat but forgot about her. Will go and read it properly now.