Week 6: Weight

Whoo! I’m now in the 220, the 30’s are behind me. Actually I’m pretty much exactly 10lbs down from my start weight.
228.4 = 1.8lbs loss
Happy happy me. It’s strange as I had a bad knee last week so the only exercise I really did was swimming three times a week. However, I did [...]

Weight: Week 5

So, I have lost an increadible…… 0.2lbs this week. Well a loss is a loss!
Seriously, I need to get new scales. They was fluctuating between 230.4, 230.2 and 29.8. As it settled most often on 230.2, that what I’m going with.

I’m feeling materialistic and vaucous….

…. so I thought I would make a list of all the places I want to be able to shop, that I can’t currently because a. they don’t do my size and b. because as none of the clothes fit me I feel self-concious going in to buy accessories which are none size specific.
For that [...]

Swimming goal - 80 lenghts in under a hour

I’ve started attending the ‘early risers’ swimming at my local pool and I’m working on getting my lengths in. When I was at school I was on the swimming team, even though I wasn’t at all skinny (this might explain why our swimming teams wasn’t so great…) however I was quite able to do 100 [...]

Controlling the urge to do exercise….

…. or is it just an insidious form of procrastination?
I’m meant to be seeing my PT guy today and he works me hard so although I’m starting to get into the habit of doing to bouts of exercise a day I don’t want to be exhausted in 4 hours time and not fully benefit from [...]

New/Old Shorts

I had a pair of shorts that I brought a couple of years ago, I never wore them because I didn’t really feel comfortable in them as they seemed very short. Occasionally I would find them at the bottom of the draw, pull them out and put them on. Last time I tried they were [...]