Morning.
Well I have been trying to get clever with some photos for my next blog post, and I have a Mac now, and I just cannot get Mac savvy. To be honest it is not my favourite device in the house! I love its battery life and the sleekness of it. But for photos I find it shithouse...Grrr. Alas I went back to the old desk top and Paint to whip up some pics. Why do I need pics you ask. Well I have to tell you about my little journey that I started at the very beginning of October last year.
Yes thats right back in October 2010, I decided I needed to make some some serious changes in my life. I needed to lose weight. I had turned into a fat blimp! Over the years (about 5 I guess) i had ballooned to 93 kilos. FARK!!! I am only 159 cms. How could that little body possibly be that large. But it was. And it seemed to happen gradually, and I lived in denial. For awhile I told myself I wasn't that big, or I'd find clothes that I told myself looked ok, I didn't look that bad.. Who was I kidding? Myself actually! At some point I actually realised it was effecting me. I was getting short of breath when I went upstairs to our bedroom at home. It was uncomfortable doing up my shoes laces. I also had horrid indegestion most days and my cholesterol was on the upper limits of normal, I think it was high for one of the standards. For awhile I told myself I just needed to get "in the zone" to start losing weight. Well clearly the zone was no where in sight. And here I was looking like this!
Uuuugh, disgusting!! The left pic was from a scrap booking retreat in March 2010, and the one on the right is me at my 40th birthday party in October 2009 (where I thought I looked hot, I guess I looked okay for a boombah!)..LOL.
So here I was lumping around all of this weight, waiting for some miracle motivation and inspiration to bestow itself on me. Well girlfriends one morning I realised it ain't gunna happen, and I just had to do it. So I signed up for Weight Watchers at Southland, one of the Lifestyle centres. After a couple of weigh ins I ended up with Claudia, a different consultant. She was lovely, and very supportive. So I had begun the journey. I started Zumba and Kickboxing, and sort of tracking points. I was never 100% good at that. I probably did it written down for a couple of months, then in my head, then not at all. But the food choices were so far different from what I was doing that it didn't matter...I was still losing weight.
I love Zumba and Kickboxing, and also getting out for a walk with our new Border Collie. So here I am 10 months later (not much different in the last month), and I happy to report I am 20 + kilos lighter. I haven't weighed in on the WW scales for ages, but they were close to my scales at home. I feel so much better, and people tell me I look so much better too. Although at times it is hard to accept that in my head, more on that later.
These pics are all in the last 2 weeks. I have definition in my shoulders, my legs are slender, I have little muscles in my arms (I need to work on picture angles, because they are not always looking their best, hehe), my tractor tyre is more like a bike tyre now and I have only 1 chin now! I am still on a journey, and that is Part 2 of my story....
For anyone who has lost weight, you will know it is a bloody battle every day, some days easier than others, but I am here to show it can be done...take each day as it comes, chin up, onward we go!
Back soon to share my next stage of my journey, which is to fine tune my mind and body.
Cheers Kaz
