I've
always been lucky enough that I've been what people would call slim! It
doesn't mean I was fit or healthy, but when I would tell people I
wanted to go on a diet or I felt I needed to go to the gym this week
lots to fit into a dress at the weekend, I would get the usual nice
reply of... But you're not even fat!
I may not have been 'fat' but I definitely wasn't healthy or fit!
I
always felt that my ‘Buddha belly’ and the tops of my arms were my
biggest enemies! I'm sure most people out there can sympathise, but no
matter how many fad diets, magic pills or crazy workout dvd's I tried...
I never found anything that I could see being a long term option! As
soon as I stopped what ever crazy ‘diet’ I was doing I went back to take
always, sitting on the couch, general laziness and scoffing my face!
The most I would ever last was a few weeks at best when I had something
special to work towards!
The
person who always had the best fad diet ideas going was my little
cousin Lynne! she had us trying out some crazy weight loss ideas over
the years! And then last September she started doing this new diet
called Herbalife. It cost a bit of money and I had just bought a house,
so I was going to pass on her latest fad... I’m sure she'd have a new
one for me to try in a few weeks! But this one lasted her months! And it
was actually working! She was losing stones... Not pounds! I was so
proud of her I'd tell anyone who would listen about this new great diet!
But I was dubious about it myself, I didn’t need to lose stones. I just
wanted rid of my flabby belly, surely this crazy shake diet wasn't for
me!
Lynne
signed up to be a independent distributor for the herbalife and had a
'shake' party where people could go along and find out information. I
told a few of my friends and took them along.
I
was sceptical... At the start I laughed about how easy it was to lose a
pound (I mean it technically is... It's just keeping it off that's the
problem) so they started their talk and everything they were saying made
sense! Nothing seemed too fancy, it wasn't just shakes, you were
allowed to eat too and the things you were to eat I really liked!
They
explained the benefit of having lots of lean protein in your diet to
ensure you built muscle as well as lose fat. They had me convinced...
But convinced enough to put my hand in my purse?
I worked out how much I spent on my breakfast & lunch in work and then on top of the the amount of money I spent on takeaways! I wasn't going to be out of pocket that much! I at least wanted to give it a try... I mean it would only last a few weeks, before I got bored and moved onto something else! .....TBC
