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Hello there everyone, and welcome to my blog (hats off to 'Blogging for Dummies' for teaching this dummy how to....you know!).

I am overweight; make that very overweight. I think the technical term is 'morbidly obese'....ouch! Over the last few years I have had a few health warning shots, enough to make me realise that although there is nothing going on with my health that can't be reversed; my time is running out to do something about it before something really bad happens.

So this is my journey to health, and the plan is an ambitious one. I want to lose weight, and I want to get fitter; fit enough to run the Manchester 10k in May of 2012, fit enough to run a half marathon towards the end of 2012, and then fit enough to run the London Marathon in 2013, where the blogging journey will end at the finish line down the Mall.

I write this in the hope that the words and thoughts of both myself and readers can inspire me when the journey gets difficult, then hopefully people can be inspired by my story; believing that the most difficult journey is possible.

I make a promise to you that I will be honest - if the wheels fall off and I have six pizzas in two days, I will come clean - and I will do my very best. Share it with me.

......Wish me luck!!

Saturday, 2 February 2013

Weigh in (82)

Oooonleeeee; 78 days, from Londooooon!!
(that’s Londooooon as in ‘London with a long final syllable’ not Londoooon as in ‘Briga….’)

A slight variation to the routine this week with Strictly taking up last night the weigh-in was bumped to Saturday. Also, if the truth be known I was living in a little village called ‘Procrastination’ (you know the place; it’s just down the road from ‘Avoidance’, on the outskirts of ‘Toonervous’). I remember that old feeling of having what I think has been a good week and expecting to have lost weight, but extremely nervous in case the familiar pattern of weight gain continues. If it does then I would start to wonder how good I need to be to get back to winning weighs (see what I did there??).
As it turns out; number 82 (weigh-in) and 78 (days to go) has been a roaring success. Now weighing in at 15 stone 9.4 pounds; rounding down to 9. Now, let me see; taking into account last week’s 15 stone 13 pounds makes……….dragging this out aren’t I?.....hey, cut me some slack; it’s been a while…..a loss of phwoarrrr pounds; now that really is more like it!
It was as much with a sense of relief as a sense of warm, fluffy-bunny-feeling when I got off the scales. I’m not arrogant enough to claim to have ‘turned the corner’, but it is nice to get back to a successful week.

So, 4 pounds down, training on schedule, and asides from some serious nerves about getting out on the road tomorrow for an 11 mile run am feeling all in all pretty good!

I’m sure that equilibrium-threatening challenges are just round the corner; but for now I am just going to sit back on my slightly less heavy rear, and enjoy the evening!! 

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