16 May 2017

Slim chance

I've been doing a lot of knitting lately. 

I've also been trying to lose a little bit of weight. Not a lot but a little. About ten pounds to be precise.  My weight had crept up over ten stone and I didn't like being in double figures (number-wise, that is, not shape-wise!) As I have an occasion I want to lose weight for, I decided to go hell for leather for it. I'm going for a combination of an old Rosemary Conley diet which has been successful in the past plus a smidgen of common sense - high fibre, low fat, low sugar and exercise. I've got a mere three pounds to go until I get to my target of 9 stone 7 pounds, but they are proving the hardest to shift.

I manage very well during the day. I have a small breakfast, small lunch and have my main meal in the evening at around 6 or 7pm. I am usually quite occupied during the day and often out of the house all day, so I barely think about food, but, come the evening, after my main meal of the day, I could happily go on snacking until bedtime. That has always been my downfall. Particularly in the wintertime when I hunker down in front of the TV I get bored and, well, peckish. It seems like every ten minutes I am resisting the idea of getting something to nibble. Sometimes I win.  Sometimes I lose. But when you are on a diet, you cannot afford to lose (except lose weight of course).

That's where the knitting comes in. In a desperate attempt to keep busy and keep my mind on something else (and not food), I decided to knit. I can do that AND watch television without the feeling I am wasting my time. It's also difficult to put the knitting aside (especially in the middle of something complicated) to go off to get a snack.

But what to knit? I don't really have anything specific to knit for and prefer small items where I can see the results quickly. In the last few weeks I've knitted 40 beanie hats and matching socks for small babies and sent them off to four London hospitals for their neonatal wards. Stupidly I didn't take pictures of those, but here's some of the blankets I have been knitting for our local animal rescue centre. So far I've done 3 cat-sized blankets and 3 dog-sized ones. Way to go.

At this rate, by the end of the year, I'll have knitted my own furniture and hopefully be stick-thin in the process. Some hope. Mind you, my fingers do seem a lot slimmer.





 

10 comments:

hyperCRYPTICal said...

I have pounds to lose too Addy, these (I think) a product of the joys of retirement. Occupied I am, never a dull moment,but not enough exercise. I do have an exercise bike which I must get in the habit of (re)using...also I am being sensible in what I eat. I haven't weighed myself, but do know the pounds are dropping off - my waistband tells me so.
I stopped knitting when each of my children reached seven, always got bored with 'bigger' knits. In my knitting days, my mum would get mill rejects of wool (she lived in Yorkshire then) and I would invent my own creations with these odd bits of wool. I used to love the challenge of it, and if I say so myself (which I am) produced some excellent jumpers for the boys. One offs - totally original.
Those were the days - wish my men were still little boys...but then, I am immensely proud of who they are today.
Anna :o]

Valerie said...

Good luck with the weight loss. It's a route I've taken many times but I think I'm settled now, or perhaps it's that I can no longer be bothered. Your blankets look really cosy.

Flowerpot said...

Well done you Addy, that's a great achievement, and I love the knitting, which is something I am hopeless at. You could set up your own business selling that sort o thing! X

Yorkshire Pudding said...

Well done! You are an impressive knitter ADDY. Regarding those evening snack urges, perhaps you could limit yourself to fruit or pieces of carrot and celery.

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