Swimming laps...

I just wanted to say how proud of myself I am this week. Normally around this time (8 weeks) if I have a bad week and don't lose much or gain I get depressed and give up on the diet. Well I only lost 200 grams last week, I thought it was going to be over 1 kg but it wasn't meant to be. Anyway I didn't give up but have pushed myself to do more exercise.

At this point I want to thank one of the wonderful girls I have met at WW online. She has been such an inspiration to the exercise part of my journey. She has only just started WW as well and has a lot of weight to lose too. I have been eagerly reading her posts lately about what exercise she is doing and became really interested as I could see her progress in the pool. Yesterday I read that she had completed 14 laps of the pool. I remeber turning to my husband saying I wish I could do that many. Just at that moment I decided I would try. Within 10 mins I had put on my bathers, got my towel and water organised and said goodbye to hubby.

Off I went to the pool. The first few laps were easy and then I got to six laps, any previous attempts I have had at doing laps would have finished at this point. I thought of the lady at WW and said I can do two more and then I started saying to myself its not a race, its a marathon. After those two laps I thought maybe I could do two more and so on. Well I am proud to say that I completed the 14 laps. You couldn't get the smile off my dial!

I got back home and posted that I too had completed 14 laps. Since then that same lady and I have become swimming buddies and hopefully we will spur each other on. I can't wait!

Sonia