The diet starts tomorrow
I'm always saying that, the diet starts tomorrow. but really, this time....it does! I've just been out an purchased a nice shiny new pair of scales, scary. We got them at the local discount store, a £50 pair of scales for a tenner, not bad. They are those "high tech" type that track your starting weight, last weight, current weight, percentage lost that week, percentage lost total. Oh they have it all. I do love a good gadget. So tomorrow morning, bright and early if my son has a say in the matter, I shall be jumping on those scales and seeing the horrible truth and belive me it's going to be horrible.
So a little bit about my weight. I can in all honestly say I've always been well built, I was fat as a teeanger but these days in my early twenties I would be classed as morbidly obses. Even before my son I was way way over weight. In fact due to gestational diabetes I actually lost a few pounds in pregnancy. I once lost over 70lb but I did it on a trict diet that I just couldn't keep going and the weight piled back on plus more. This time I intend to stick to healthy eating and exercise but in a way that I know I can maintain well...for the rest of my life. I will probably keep an eye on calories as well but I'm not going to be listing them here, that's boring for me and anyone (if anyone!) who is reading this.
That's my weight. Now for me. I'm 23 years old, married for 2 years this December and in May this year I gave birth to my first child, William. I am a trained nursery nurse and as I like to claim two thirds a teacher. When I feel pregnant I was just entering my third and final year of a primary teacher training degree. All I have to do now to finish is compelte an 8 week teaching block and hand in an 8000 word dissertation. I fully intend to complete that before summer 2010. I was born and raised in Worcestershire but have recently moved to my husbands home town of Derby where the cost of living is a lot cheaper, especially rent! I hate having to stay in the house so I usually take Will out to baby groups or the park during the week. I don't drive so I walk everywhere with him in the pushchair - good exercise ;-). I'm a film and book fanatic but my favourites in both are usually murder and crime mysteries - I am quite gruesome like that :D
Well this was a longer blog post than I meant it to be. Stay tuned tomorrow for the first weigh in.