Amount Lost : 95 pounds / 6 stone & 11 pounds
Amount Still to Lose : 35 pounds or 2 & a half
stone
Percentage Lost of the 130 Pounds I’m Aiming to Lose :
73%
Percentage of Original Weight Lost : 31.25%
BMI : 29.9
I'd been banging on about it for weeks. Constantly projecting forward to keep myself going. Always looking to the next landmark and the one after that.
I’ve finally reached the point where ‘moderately obese’ slips into ‘overweight’, or, as I like to call it, 'merely overweight'. To put it another way, its step-ladder time!
Yes, I can now use the work step ladders. They have a
fifteen stone limit on them. My manager said it didn’t matter but I don’t think
she quite realised how far over I was. WAS. I started at twenty-one stone &
ten pounds & am now fourteen stone & thirteen pounds, that’s one pound
under for the step ladders ‘cos I’ll be wearing more clothes than I wear for
weighing myself when I use them.
Yes, there are the bald facts, the bold facts, the
facts I didn’t want to mention before. And, the final (Impossible) figure is –
will be, could be, should be – twelve stone & six pounds, a pound under the
top of the ideal weight range for my height.
I've no idea if this is what that cusp-point between
these two states looks or indeed feels like. My cheap but friendly scales tell me and
I choose to believe. Though it can’t be right that I’m only two and a half
stone overweight, can it? CAN IT? I’ve also realised this the lowest weight I’ve been
since I was nineteen when I started putting my Slummin’ Whirled (sic) weight
back on. Incredible!
(I’m now wondering if I can, with enough time, get
FURTHER into the ideal range. Could I be eleven stone ten, my Slummin' Whirled (sic)
target from thirty-four years ago? WHAT AM I THINKING? I’m fairly sure I’ve not
been this weight since I was about twelve, maybe even eleven, years old. I
think my weight went up numerically with my age in six years of senior school
and college.)
(I put that in brackets because it’s really Beyond The
Impossible Thing …)
Lately, I’ve had more moments when I can see it. But I
still have others where I decide I’ve not lost any and am making a fool of
myself for mentioning each pound lost. It’s ridiculous, and similar in some
ways to a very skinny person who sees themselves as fat. Come on, lovely brain,
keep up.
But I’ve promised myself I’ll hold my nerve and keep
going. For me there is no stopping and restarting, there is no ‘I must get back
to it’, an expression I heard a lot at a January staff meal out, about either
the slimming club or the gym or both. No, just keeping going slowly and as best I can.
Because I’m constantly eating more than I need – I do LOVE
food - I have to up my exercise further. And I can. From May I’m going to be a
full time member at the Health Club. This enables me to do a second Zumba class
on a Wednesday evening and have the option of an early evening swim or two instead
of an afternoon one. Once I’ve established that as routine and habit, I’ve
promised myself I’m going to try another class, or two or three. Looking at
Step, Hydro-fit and Balance, which is a mixture of Yoga, Pilates and Tai Chi,
none of which I’ve ever done. That will be a steep learning curve but if I can 'sort of'
do Zumba, surely I can have a stab at these? I will only commit to trying once
and then I’ll see. But then I said that about Zumba.
Thanks once again for the support everybody. Thank
you for reading this, and for liking/commenting on every pound lost. It must be
very boring …
A bit of before-and-after-ing. Can you see it?
July 2013
March 2018
Several times a week – no exaggeration – I think ‘I
CAN’T BELIEVE I’VE DONE THIS!!’
Onwards to summer, to the seven stone necklace &
beyond …
