The Thinning

Just after I got back from Spain, which is 6 weeks ago now, I pledged to lose weight. I made all sorts of claims and resolutions and then went very quiet about the whole thing. Well....today marks the end of the sixth week of starvation and yes, there have been results!! So far, my total weight loss is (drum roll) 1 stone, 2lbs. The two pounds has to be taken with a pinch of salt as my bathroom scales like to fib. They tell me I've lost a certain amount, and then take great joy in fluctuating, causing me to stress and think I am rubbish. The one stone, however, is solid weight loss i.e there's no fluctuation. Thank god I FINALLY seem to be winning the battle. I say 'seem,' because I don't like to take my resolve and determination for granted. Picture it as a very fragile plant - I have to keep watering and feeding my psychological state of mind to keep it going. It doesn't, and won't, take much to kill it.

So I'm allowing myself a little blog room to celebrate a bit. I can't stand it when people resolve to lose weight and do nothing but talk about it non-stop. My belief is that by putting it at the forefront of your mind one hundred percent of the time causes you to obsess about it and then you're more likely to fail. What I try to do is just get on with it, and hope the scales are kind to me at the end of each week.

Last week I invested in two secret weapons to reinforce my weight loss scaffold. The first was a dancersize DVD, which makes me feel nine stone heavier than I am and must make me look like a demented walrus when I do it. Still, it does the trick. By the time I get to the end of the dance track I am purple and gasping. My second weapon is a cross trainer. I get to run without the impact and without having to go out in the street where a) it would be cold and b) people would point and laugh at me! The cross trainer is great, not only for the fact that it looks like a proper piece of gym equipment, so just owning it makes me feel fit, but also (for the time being, at least) it is good fun. But hey, we'll see how long that lasts.

I suppose, like anything you really want, you have to keep plugging away at it, reminding yourself why you're doing it and why you're putting yourself through it. I'm just not looking forward to Christmas.....my mouth is watering already!