June 2017 – The World Of Slimming

Starting Well and Finishing Strong – Jackie’s Personal Story

I joined Slimming World around 9 months ago as I’d managed to lose the weight I had gained from my pregnancy with my youngest son, Harry, who was then 4 months old, but I knew I was still overweight. Continue Reading

Happy In My Own Skin

I’m going through a phase. This is not necessarily a bad thing but I know that other people around me must suffer when I am having one. My current phase is called ‘I’m OK’. Isn’t that nice and simple? Much better than my miserable ‘I think I’m going to die’ phase and of course my […]

A Series of Pow-Wows

This week was a series of secret and not so secret pow-wows. Lots of private and public conversations about all sorts of things. I would never dream of talking to people in the big wide world about how their weight loss journey is going, but in our Slimming World group it is at the centre […]

I Could Have, But I Didn’t And I Won’t

After weeks, nay months of struggle I achieved my 5½ stone award today. I had got my head into a bit of a spin with my weight loss this week and was determined to post the right number on Saturday. I mounted the scales and watched the digits spin around to momentarily show that I […]