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I’m In My Own Bubble – Do Not Disturb

Day three of my #onplanoctober has gone well despite the efforts of other people trying to push me off course. I have been truly angelic with my food choices and did a seven mile walk before breakfast this morning. However…I’m In My Own Bubble – Do Not Disturb Continue Reading

#onplanoctober Days One & Two – Housekeeping and Domestic Arrangements

We made a great start to our #onplanoctober. The things I do for my Slimming World Diet! I still hardly know how these hashtags work but nevertheless it seems to have done something to the internet in my tiny little world. I had six new Instagram followers and my Facebook group really encouraged me on […]

My Journey To Target – Karen’s Personal Story

When I started my journey with Slimming World in January 2016, I only had one aim and that was to help Ken. He had suffered a serious life-threatening heart condition which necessitated an operation. Thankfully he survived but was then told he needed to lose weight. Continue Reading

Discretion Is The Better Part Of Valour

‘The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.’ William Shakespeare – Henry IV 1596. Something bad happened yesterday but I have decided not to talk about it. I am being discrete. So onward with the post… 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 […]

The Circle of Life

This day had to come. Inevitable really. One of the most rubbish days I have had for a while! This post sounds like a bit of a ‘pity me’ party but that is not my intention. I know that many Slimming World members have far more to deal with in life than I do. Even so, […]

Back to School

I remember two major injustices that happened to me in primary school. The first time, I must have been about 6 years old. I was sent to the headmaster with an exercise book in my hand. I was given a severe reprimand by him and then sent back to class. Nothing unusual in that except […]

My Target Member Story – Jemima

I was always a happy young lady at a healthy weight, about 9.5 stone, until my first marriage then my life all changed. We were very happy together at first. Bought a place to live, got married then had my lovely son. Then slowly things began to change. Continue Reading