Slimming Excuses

Well, our members would win prizes for their originality with the weird and wonderful excuses they bring to class as their 'reason' for not losing weight!

The most common 'reason' is something unexpected happening, but it's a rare week when nothing out of the ordinary happens.  So it's important that the member can admit that their 'reason' no matter how genuine or important it was, it still an excuse because ninety nine times out of a hundred they could have stuck to their diets if they'd really, really wanted to!

Let's start you off with a few that we remember - then you can tell your members the ones that you remember from class and finally ask for their current (that night) contributions!

• We had the builders in this week, the place was a mess, we had no doors, there was a hole in the roof!
• I dislocated the little finger of my left hand - and chipped a bone too!
• The children started school!   OR the children finished school!  OR the children didn't go to school!
• I went to the dentist and had six fillings!
• My cat had kittens - so I couldn't diet, could I?
• I made an apple pie and told my husband that I wouldn't have any - he went out - I had a piece, then I knew he would be angry, so I ate the rest and made another pie!
• My new job provides free lunches!
• I left my job and my new company doesn't provide free lunches!
• My sister had a baby!  My mother made a cake!  I crashed my husband's car!
• I bought some new clothes, my husband said how glamorous I looked so he took me out to dinner!