Week 4

Oh yeah baby!!! 3lbs off. Hurrah! No fridge raid tonight, oh no, so focused I cannot tell you.

I followed the plan to the letter again this week which just goes to show that our bodies are not predictable things. I know you told me so. Anyway....

I was in the mood for a clothes sort out session this week, not because miraculously I can fit into my size 12s but because I found it quite negative looking at the size 12s and 14s hanging in my wardrobe accumulating dust. Most of the stuff I had, I just wouldn’t wear again so I decided to be brave and sort it for the charity shop. A couple of posh size 14s were put back, but on the whole it all went in the sack. The size 16s and small 18s I put into two separate suitcases and am looking forward to opening them (like a free shopping spree) when I have lost the weight. As for when I need a size 14, a girlie shopping trip will be in order and you are all cordially invited.

I had a mad moment after walking Beano this week. I still had my headphones on at the end of the walk and decided to take off my soaking wet jeans whilst bopping to some fabulous 60s music in the kitchen. Before I knew it, I was a possessed aerobics instructor teaching an imaginary audience and throwing arms and legs all over the place and gyrating like a pole dancer but without the pole. Approximately 20 minutes later I finished the imaginary class, after building up a sweat and hit the shower. I would so recommend this to anyone. I felt really invigorated. I suppose it is best if you only execute this at home rather than in a public place unless you have no friends in which case, knock yourself out. Oh, did you also know that cross trainers are apparently good for exercising and not just drying duvet covers? I think I might have a go on ours this week just to see.

My beautiful sister gave me a great idea on how to reward myself during the stages of my weight loss which I am going to slightly adapt and call ‘the bucket list’. It may well change as I go along and have deliberately left some spaces to fill as my confidence and agility grows! The Bucket List countdown.

14lbs   Treatment at Old Thorns	21lbs   Reflexology   (preferably with Daniel Craig doing the rubbing)	25lbs   Drop down the highest red slide at play zone Portsmouth (Note to self...new bra will be required)	28lbs   Western Horse riding in the new forest.    New hat required.	31lbs   Synchronised Swimming with Sister. (will explain later)	34lbs   TBA	38lbs   London and the Theatre	42lbs   25 mile LIDBA Bike Ride (June 2013) raising money for www.harrisonsfund.com
50lbs Water-ski   (with Daniel Craig)	52lbs   TBA	54lbs   TBA	56lbs Flight on Warbird at Goodwood (Have wanted to do this forever!)	60lbs   TBA	62lbs   TBA	65lbs   TBA	66lbs   TBA
69lbs	70lbs The  Holiday

 

So as you have noticed, synchronised swimming with my sister is on the bucket list for when I have lost just over two stones. It was a humorous suggestion made by my younger, size 8-10 sibling in passing and I am sure she never thought it would be seriously part of my list. How wrong could she be? You may think I would be slightly embarrassed to be floundering around side by side carrying my extra weight, but no, I have a secret to share with you all. My sister has a cork bum. She can glide above the water effortlessly but when it comes to touching the bottom of the pool, her bottom is so full of air she pops right back up again. No buoyancy aid required here. Therefore, I feel quietly confident that I may be able to carry this off better than her. Unless of course we have a glass or two of champagne first in which case we are likely to end up wetting ourselves laughing and half drowning at the same time. I think mum should witness this one.

And so to finish this week’s blog, I am going to use part of the Summary my Annie wrote at the end of her project on Gandhi. It reads like this: “Believe in yourself and what you do. Don’t let anything back you down and keep on going until the end.” So ten and a half pounds of fat gone. Fifty nine and a half pound to go. Sx