An update… and a new beginning
I know, it’s been a while. I made plans and life happened.
Good things: I passed my viva, I visited Cape Town in South Africa, I went home for the first time in two years… twice in the space of 4 months! WB got back in touch but I feel nothing, I realised I don’t even like him.
Not-so-good things: I don’t have friends in the new town that I’m living in, I am still single.
Bad things: I had to have surgery at the end of January for what is known as a pilonidal abscess . It was incredibly painful and I had to be off work for the whole of February as the surgery wound was left open and had to be dressed daily for 2 weeks and then every other day for the third week. Since the wound was on my tailbone, it meant applying pressure there when I sat, which, again, caused a lot of pain. I am glad to report that I can now sit for long periods without pain. Fingers crossed.
All in all, I’ve had an eventful 6 months.
As the title of the post suggests, this was to give an update but also to start over a new leaf.
I am finally tired of being the (now) obese lonely woman. So, today, I signed up to a dieting site. I start the diet properly on Wednesday 10th March. And I will be accountable on this blog. My aim is to lose 30 kgs. Medical experts say that a healthy weight loss is 1 kg per week, which in theory should take me 30 weeks, therefore. This would then take me to the 6th October.
However, as we all know, goals are more attainable if they are cut down in bite-size chunks. Thus, I will be doing this in 30 days’ interval. I will give myself a challenge for each 30 days on top of the diet so that this becomes a lifestyle change as opposed to a diet that I discard at the very sight of a hurdle or even at the end of the weight loss. The only caveat is this: although the aim is to lose 30 kgs, the real aim is to be healthy and fit into a size 12 (as opposed to a size 20).
This will take time and a lot of effort as I change my deeply-ingrained habits – not only about food but also behavioural ones. I know it won’t be easy but I also know that I can’t keep living like this. I firmly believe that my life needs to change…for the better!
Hope you join me on the ride. I’ll be doing some thinking about my challenge for the next 30 days and will make a decision by tomorrow evening.
Wish me luck…and hard work!!
