08.01.07
Its official - I have joined a fat club
Dieting, or the type I have been half heartedly trying to do over the last few months (or perhaps years), makes you fat. 5 years ago, in the months before my 40th birthday, I decided that I didn’t want to spend my 40’s fat. I joined a UK based diet and fitness club and proceeded to lose 2 stone and reached the milestone feeling slimmer and fitter. Trouble was I never lost that third stone and today, just under a week to my 45th birthday I weigh more than I did before I started. Since then I have kind of dieted on and off, trying at various times to recreate the original diet from that club, the atkins diet, the GI diet and a fair few diets invented by yours truly. I am a nurse, I perfectly well understand that it is not about dieting, but about eating a healthy diet and exercising regularly but it is easy to know stuff it is harder to do them. Add to that the fact I live with a man who can decide to cut down on food and alcohol and a few weeks later practically have his jeans hanging off him. Plus of course my beanpole of a son who is just well a long thin bean (and of course I am happy for him to be like that).
Since my holiday, and another 4-5lbs put on, and the sight of myself the other day sideways on in a shop window, I have made the decision to join another slimming club even though I have 2 outings coming up over the weekend. I am hoping the fact that I will get weighed next Wednesday, will act as an incentive for me not to over indulge so that I can begin the journey to some kind of slimness. Progress will be reported at regular intervals and I have to say that the people at this new club seem much more friendly than at my previous one. So hopefully all will go well. The next thing is to step up the exercise and I plan to start that tomorrow. There is nothing like the thought of being over 45 and fat to drive you on!
Just like the woman above, I am a thin person buried in the body of someone else!
