Progress

I have a dream.  That dream is to be an awesome blogger who sends out a post more than one a week or so!  But, as fate would have it, I have not yet achieved that yet.

So, I have made progress in the last ten days.  I have walked the dog (the big bruiser in the photo,) I have been swimming in the pool with five energetic children, and I have had a fairly comprehensive mindset change about food!

My wife (who does not yet know the extent of my scales humiliation) has told me that I'm starting to look great, especially around the chin.  I tend to lose the flab around my face before it shows up anywhere else.

I have noticed a difference in my fitness.  I know, I know, "What fitness can a 150kg  monster lay claim to?"  But from the first fair-dinkum exercise I have done, until today, I can feel the difference.

This morning I completed a 4.51km walk in 48.44 minutes.  I was happy with this.  I very nearly quit about half way through, due to shin splints, but pushed through the pain.  My split times per kilometer decreased, and I had a fantastic walk in the end.

The moral of that story is: If you feel like quitting, or you think it's too hard, just keep pushing!

That's it for today.

Starting weight: 150kg
Goal: 95kg (55kg loss)
Current weight: 147.3kg
Loss: 2.7kg

Time to start again. Again.

Today, my world crashed around me.  I reached a new milestone, something I have never done before, and it isn't good. Today, I weighed in at 150 kilograms.

I have never seen the scales with those digits before, and I never want to see them again.  The time has come.  The war has started in earnest, and something must be done about my enemy.  There is no longer a truce, the armistice has been torn up, my life is changing.

I asked myself yesterday, "What am I willing to do to lose weight?"

I ask myself again today, and the answer is, "Whatever it takes!"

My journey has begun again.  Again.  It seems I am always starting again, but this is the last time.  If I can't get it this time, I feel there will not be another chance for me- I'll be doomed to a perpetually FAT state.

I want this to be a natural weight loss journey.  I am hoping  I have the strength of mind and can develop the character an resistance to say "No!"  The big fat gut has got to go.

The included picture is not me.  I couldn't stand putting my own photo up there just yet.  I am too ashamed.

As I head down this now well trodden path, I hope that my triumphs and failures are able to help some other person to stick at it, and achieve a good and healthy weight.

Starting weight: 150kg
Goal: 95kg (55kg loss)
Current weight: 150kg
Loss: 0kg