After seeing the photos from “World Wide Knit In Public Day” I could no longer deny, that I need to lose weight. I need encouragement when loosing weight, but am loath to go to a slimming club and pay money to see what my bathroom scales tell me once a week. However the thought of loosing weight and turning the slimming club membership money into Yarn made me a bit more excited.
A slimmer me and yarn with out guilt, I thought would be fantastic. The idea of loosing weight with an online weigh in was something that I put forward in one of the ongoing threads on Ravelrey's (You need to be a member to see the pages. I think) Cardiff Knitters. I haven’t posted back the following idea as yet as it needs input first. I posted the idea to The British Knitters group, as maybe they have the information and knowledge to help. We are a little group at Cardiff Knitters (only one week old) so need a wider opinion.
the info I needed to know was How much do Slimming clubs charge their members for joining? How much is the weekly membership charge? I know that years ago I was charged £10 to join and there after £4.50 a week. Ok I got the slimming books when I joined but I’ve still got them. My thoughts is that if the books worked then, they will still work now. no need to join again. Thats at least one load of money going into my “Yarn Jar”
The idea for the knitting group is that you make two money jars. The first you label “Yarn Fund” and the second you label as something else such as “Charity Fund” or “Husband’s Hobby” or something similar. On the weeks you loose weight or stay the same you put the slimming club charge in your “Yarn fund” jar. On the weeks you gain weight you put the slimming club charge in the other pot labled “Husband’s Hobby”.
The online weigh in will also offer people the chance to pass on tips and encouragement to others. The other thing is that there will be no point in telling porky pies, as we will be meeting up at the various Cardiff knitting clubs, so we will be able to see the success in the flesh as they say.
Oh and at next years WWKIPD I will be a little happier to see photos of me, taken from the side with out my knowing they are being taken.
2 comments:
This is a brilliant idea Jack! I'm going to weigh myself right after I press PUBLISH and head onto the Ravelry group to 'sign up' per say!
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I'll wait until after the weekend (going to Ross On Wye for dinner and a night at a lovely hotel) but I'm definitely interested! My husband said that he'd spend his money on sweets and comics! That would definitely annoy me if I'm slimming, although I think he may have been playing with me.
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