Category: Weight

So supposedly I started my health and weight loss complain on 26th April weighing a staggering 303 lbs. Today 155 days later I weigh 303 lbs! What an outstanding waste of space. Yet again I achieve absolutely nothing, although this time at least I have not put any weight on. I started losing weight because I felt I needed to in June 1997 when I weighed 176lbs so in 20 years I have actually managed to put on over 2 stone in weight, outstanding!.

So a couple of weeks of getting into the groove, writing my mental health blog and at last I felt ready to do something. I have had my MRI scan on my knee and despite it being very panful and stopping me from doing any real exercise for the last 6 months, the doctors are saying its not a bad tear and that a series of injections should fix things. To be honest I am not sure I am happy about that, I need this fixing once and for all and although the injections could see results virtually straight away, which would mean I would be able to start going for good walks and maybe even a bit of jogging (and getting back to the wonderful weekly parkrun. But if it doesn’t work they have to wait 5 months before they can operate!
Anyway although the injections haven’t started yet I felt ready to start something. Firs off I did 15 minutes on the stationary bike, no resistance, but it was hard enough and it was a start. Then during the week I got to the pool twice and swam for 10 to 15 mins. Again not very much but a start. and then just now I have done 20 minutes on the bike.
The annoying thing is neither form of exercise hurt my knee, so yes I could have been doing this for months but until now, now I am focusing on my mental health I have not been able to exercise, so clearly the 2 issues are very tightly linked.
My plan for the coming week is to swim each morning immediately after dropping my daughter at school on the way to work. Let see if I manage it.

Not started on the exercise yet, although yesterday I did go and support a friend run her half marathon which ironically and wonderfully she was doing for the mental health charity MIND. She ran 13.1 miles and I walked about 4 getting from point to point to cheer her on and I bet I feel worse this morning than she does. My knee hurts (it was bound to I guess) but I was exhausted last night, my legs were stiff, my back ached. That is ridiculous I have to do something about this.
The one positive thing is I have gone an entire week without snacking which for me is a huge achievement. To go into a petrol station and not come out with a coffee and sausage roll is huge. Maybe just maybe I can crack it this time, with the help of my blog.
Here’s next week.

For the umpteenth time I start a weight loss program!
Its not about following a diet, its about my diet! A permanent change to the way, when and what I eat. But just as importantly coupling this with exercise.

The weight loss industry gets fat on profit, pushing “fad” diets. I have lost weight before but always put it, and more, back on. Sustainable weight loss, is a permanent life style change. But I have said this a dozen times before

Can this be the time I crack it?