I'm back

Me warming up

Gemma told me off the other day for not posting anything. She was quite right too.

I get a bit down in the winter and things get really hard for me.

I did the run, didn't really want too my auntie passed away on the Friday before but I did it for her in a way.

Gemma and her freinds walked and so did I and do you know what they only finished 8 yes 8 minutes a head of me. Who knows if I hadn't slowed down to talk to people on the way I might have passed them teehee.

This is us at the end don't we look like a lovely mum and daughter group?

Well since then I haven't really done much I have lost someone or been to a funeral every week during September and October. So I suppose it is a bit understandable why I'm down a bit.

Walking Again?????

Well will you look at that there's me doing that walking thing again!!! I’m feeling a little bit ill at the moment.

Garry and I set out at 8 this morning to go to Sefton Park to walk the route and see how long it would take us to get there: unfortunately the rain was precipitating in Liverpool when we got out of Central Station.

We had a little discussion park or home?
Errr lets see rainy park or dry home, home I think. So we turned around and went back into the station and got the next New Brighton Train.

Now how many of you thought I would say we got off the train and straight on to a bus? Doubting Thomas’s all of you; I suggested we walk home from Wallasey Village train station. It took us 51mins I am really proud of that. I had to walk up part of St Hilary’s Brow that’s a big hill.

Don’t I look smart in my Make-A-Wish t-shirt and hat?

15 Days to go

This time on the 16th September I will have finished my 5Km run thingy and be fast a sleep in bed. Maybe.



I walked from Seacomb Ferry to New Brighton Lifeboat Station today and it took me 67 minutes. I am going to have to improve on that.

Garry and I are going to Sefton Park again tomorrow to see how long it takes us to get there and and how long it takes me to walk the course.

I must remember not to hold his hand because I wont be holding it in the race.

Do you think he might let me have an ice cream if I beat today's time?
No I didn't think so. oh well.

I am off to bed now have to be on a bus at 8:30 in the morning, which means we will have to have breakfast and leave the house by 8.10.

Nite nite

No I never got to walk the other day a little thing called Garry happened. He got me so ANGRY that I even forgot to put my trainers on so I couldn't even try to do any practice walks home.

Flip-flops are ok for just slobbing around but are dammed uncomfortable for proper walking.

I might try again on Saturday.

Walking

I think I might walk from Moreton to Arrowpark hospital today. I am not sure how long it is but that should give me a sort of ruff Idea of how far 5Kg is.

Then I will get the bus to the gym and depending how I feel I will walk home with Garry.

I'll let you know how I did later.

I saw Val Yippi

Tuesday 14th

I had lunch with Val today, I haven't seen her for ever such a long time, I'm sorry I ever said "she only had to ring if she had any news" I didn’t mean it like that I just didn’t want her to feel obliged to keep ringing me if she didn’t want too. I really do miss Val.

I took Val to Mikey's and showed her the jewellery she liked it as well and said it would look lovely with my dress.

I must get hold of Gem and ask her what she thinks of them.

Shopping

On Saturday I took Kaitlyn over to Liverpool just to change a pair of shorts. Yes you've guessed it, I didn't just do that Kuwe had a ride on the tea cups in Clayton Square, we had a look in the Orange shop (they have this dead cute little pink phone). I did nearly buy it but the assistant kept insisting I buy a £10 sim card as well. I don't need a new sim or phone really I just wanted a back phone if I was unsure of the area I was going too, or if I am going to do something where I might loose my phone, like the run in September.

We had a nosey around town for a while, had lunch in the Welkin and then we went and strutted our stuff around the Metquarter. Kaitlyn is 8 and she loved the designer shops and the stuff they sell till I showed her the price of some of the things (kids grow up so fast these days).

There is a shop in there called Mikey that sells jewellery and things. I found a really nice necklace it ONLY cost £45, there is also a bracelet and a ring to match. After a discussion we decided that it would be nice for Gemma's wedding but I would have to have Gemma's OK for it. I mean to say, I can't out do the bride now can I?

I really enjoyed shopping with Kaitlyn; I will have to take her again some time.

Scary Photo Time

It's been 6 months or so since I started to the keep fat thingy and I have some new photos for you to a squint at.

I can't see much difference but others say they can.

The picture on the left is now and the other is the one from Feb.

My tummy doesn't stick so much now
I can put my knees together I haven't been able to do that for yearsI thought my hair would have grown longer by now. A year to go maybe it will look better then.Will you look at those legs they look so much better know and the saggy bum isn't so saggy
I am still working out and trying to get my speed up for the walk. I hope I can keep up with everyone and not be the last home!!!

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Well you all know that Garry has has been buying us gym equipment for the house. We have had to move from the back room into the front room now because the gym just keeps getting bigger.

I have my brilliant treadmill in the window so I can watch what's going on outside pity I cant see past the gate ;-(. I try and do 3.1 miles a day ready for Septembers race.

I have now joined an outside gym for the company as well. It's called Gymophobics and it's in Birkenhead, up loads of steps so you get a workout just getting in. The staff our brilliant, they keep telling me I a am causing trouble ME!!! would I do that.

The machines there are great they don't use weights like in a normal gym or at home, they use air pressure. So the only hard thing you have to do is press a button to get to the right weight. SUPER.

After I have spent my 30mins yes 30mins doing my workout I feel pumped ready to do more so in the afternoons when I go I have started to meet Garry after work and walk home with him.

When you have picked yourselves up off the floor I did say walk I even walk to his place and meet him from work first. No bus, or taxi; if this keeps up on the taxi firms are going to go bust.
When Gemma did her race for life Garry and I walked home from Birkenhead Park I moaned all the way home from Duke Street Bridge.
last Tuesday Garry and I walked to our Pam's it took us 45 minuets and I didn't even feel the hill by the tunnel entrance and I didn't moan once.

I have been a member of Gymophobics for a couple if weeks now and on Thursday I got weighed again and I had lost a 1lb or .5kl in one week that makes me feel really good I must be doing something right at last.

Why not have a look for yourselves at the gym girls (no boys allowed) their web address is

http://www.gymophobics.co.uk/

My 1st 5K Run

Well I have really gone and done it now!!!

Soft Ollie's here has only gone and sighed up to run in the Woman's 5Km Hydro run at Sefton Park on 16th September, (that's a Sunday, you know the lying in day don't have visitors. don't answer the door and maybe answer the phone) in the morning like early before noon!!! I can't even take my quite Garry wont let me.

I am running on behalf of a charity called Make a Wish Foundation UK,

Make-A-Wish grants magical wishes to children and young people fighting life-threatening illnesses. This year the charity is celebrating 21 years of wish granting. Make-A-Wish was founded in the UK in June 1986 and, since then, they have granted over 4,400 wishes. At any given time, over 20,000 children in the UK are living with life-threatening conditions and their aim is to grant 21 wishes a week by the year 2010. Whether a wish is to be a princess or a policeman for a day, own the latest computer equipment, meet a favourite celebrity or just enjoy some special time away from home with their family, a wish come true brings so much to a child's life and provides memories for the family that last a lifetime.

Well just below in a pretty link to a very nice web site called justgiving.com, this is where you will go and sponsor me WONT YOU



See it even tells you how much sponsorship I have raised.

OH WOW

I have lost loads of inches from different places just take a look.
Weight still a problem to get rid of but I AM working hard in our gym to try and shift it. I'VE GOT MUSCLES NOW!!! Not just fat. Garry is going to take another picture of my cosy soon lets hope we can see a difference.

I am eating so much fruit at the moment that I will soon be looking like a banana: short, bent and skinny. Well not the bent bit, curvy maybe

I've been bugged

Well since I last wrote my weight has decide it doesn't want to go down; oh no, it wants to play see saw Marjory door. The thin lady in me is screaming let me out of here but the fat one says no its still my turn to play. Well I have decided it is time to stop playing silly children games and get down to the really hard work .

For my Birthday Garry got me a years subscription to FITBUG. Well that bug goes every where with me, his name is Borris and he likes it best when Garry is not around so we can have a rest.

Borris connects to his big house via USB and uploads all his information he has gathered for the day, which include; ordinary steps, aerobic steps, kcals used and distance traveled.

I have type in what I have eaten and the programme works out how good you are been with you intake compared to what you burned. Each week you get a personal newsletter from FITBUG and give you a new goal to reach for the next week.

Week 1 you do and eat the same as normal and fill in the data.
Week 2 is when you have to start to work. Due to Garry taking me on a million mile walk yesterday the FITBUG people think I can do lots of exercise now, thanks Garry!!!This week I have to reach 14200 regular steps of which 6600have to be aerobic steps. (does anybody want to wear my bug for the day but don't tell Garry I asked he'd only say no you can't).

I'm getting muscles on my arms now as well. Better not make me angry, so not eating any Crispy Duck around me, the tyrant wont let me have any.

Going now to chew on a carrot :-(

weight

I have lost another 1bl in weight, now I am back to my starting point. Oh dear!!!

I get measured on Sunday Lets hope I lost a few more inches around the body

Smirnoff Ice

Went to Andy's with dad, Pam, Norma & Shelly.

Well did you know that you can get drunk by drinking just one bottle of Smirnoff Ice? I didn't. ;-) Not till Saturday night anyway.

Norma, Pam, dad and I went to the corner shop, they bought what they wanted to drink, I was looking for the J20s of course. Dad helped we couldn't find any so I looked for a bottle of Smirnoff Ice, dad found one. It was HUGE well ok about the size of a 70cl bottle Vodka. I bought it and went back to Andy's

By the end of the evening I shocked myself as I had finished the hole bottle by myself!!! I normally only have 1 or 2 bottles if I was drinking it in a pub. I recon there must have been 4-5 bottles in there.

Garry recons I was still hung over on Monday.

April is here and Walking hurts

Well it's April time showers and walks in the sun arrr humbug.

Garry had me walking along the prom again this Sunday, when will I learn??? There is a hill along the prom, last week I had to sit down and catch my breath (if I had taken my inhaler I would have used it) but this week I managed to get up it ok, still a bit out of breath but no where as bad as last week.

Well yesterday is a different kettle of fish. He needed to go to Liverpool for something so we jumped on the bus at the end of the road no problems there. When we got off I said would you like the quick way or the exercise way? We all know what way he picked (tyrant) up steps and down the other side. When we got to the lights I told him look that is where the bus dropped us off, well why didn't we just walk along there then ooh men.

I thought we would go straight to dad's but no we have to get off in Birkenhead and go to work. So we walk from the train station then we walk to the bus station. Visited dad and then we went to pick up my Ebay purchase at the other end of Reeds Lane. Now me I would of got the bus, you know it's a 15 minute walk to the address but no we had to walk and the walk back to the Berket.

When I finally got to bed I had taken 11096 steps, walked 7.63 miles and used up 1365 kcals. I think I was a sleep before 10pm.

This walking lark is no good it is making me tired

Walkies

Garry & I did a bit of walking Sunday and Monday.

Sunday we walked along the prom till we came to our old road. Then we looked at our 1st house together. It looks sad and rundown. It has double glazing but it looks like the tacky brown wood effect stuff. The stained glass window of the landing is still there though. I would love to go in and see what it looks like now.

Monday we decided to walk to the ASDA, 30min walk that's not bad. It took us 1.5 hours to get there. (If he tells me he knows a short cut I'm not going to believe him again.) After ASDA we went to the park and had picnic. that was very nice. Then we got the bus home, I refuse to walk anymore. In total we walked for nearly 3 hours on Monday.

Who's been a naughty Girl Then

Oh dear I think I might have put more weight on this time round again.

I just couldn't be bothered to exercise. I felt so down. Can't wait for the sunny days to come, o how I hate the darkness.

Measurment

Well Those of you who saw my pink page that went missing will remember I said I would only post now and again but here I am posting again.

After The shock of the weight gain had subsided, I started to listen to my Friends and Garry who where telling me wait till till you measure yourself and see whats happened.
So last Sunday I measured my bits and oh my God things had got smaller apart from my calf.

Garry and Geoff recon I must be making muscle growth and soon the fat will turn to muscle and I will loose more weight as I get more toned up.

So I guess I will have to do the exercise after all. I really like Pilate's but Garry doesn't think that will help my weight loss maybe you might know differently.

Progress So Far

Well I have been trying to loose weight for a month now and well its not going that well!!!

I first got weighed on Friday 26th January 2007. My weight was 252lbs/114.5kg. Very Scary had no idea I weighed so much :-(

Next weighed in Friday 9th February. Joy of joy I have lost 3lbs/1.3kgs. :-)

And Friday 23rd February. Yippee another 2lbs/1kg. :-)

Then I went to the docs for another weigh in. I new I might have put a 1bl/1.1kg on, I haven't done any exercise at all for the last 2 weeks but HORROR of HORRORS I have put 6lbs/3kgs.

What have I done!!!! I now weigh heavier then when I started :-0

Exercise

Who said exercising was fun? Well it's not!!! It's hard work and it hurts. My other half bought a multi gym for us to use and a cross country thingy (that's a killer) and now hes got this thing that I can do plates on. (Quite neat I suppose) but I do feel it the next day I like that one the best I lie down and there is no impact on my poor joints. being so big there must be loads of impact on them. I got a shock the other day my blood pressure was 212/180. My BP has aways been unpredictable you might say up and down liker a yoyo but this reading did scare me. This one is like I going to be died. I was rushed to hospital there it reduced to 186/140 still not all good they let me go home so long as I rested and whet to my GP. Well as you can imagine that sent shock waves to my brain and now there is major reasons for loosing the weight apart from my beautiful dress I really want to be at my daughters wedding next year; and not her at my funeral.

Month 2 - 14 to go till May 2008

I am 44 and fat.

My little girl is getting married and I need to be slimmer and healthier for her and any children she may have in the future.

The photos coming up are very scary and I hope I never get big like this again (if I can get thin first) The numbers are what my measurements are at the moment.

Picture 1 The Front

Picture 2 The Left

Picture 3 The Back

Picture 4 The Right

The next picture is the dress I want to wear at her wedding. Sizes go up to 36; but I will not be buying that size or anything over a size 18. I want to go down 2 dress sizes and one day eventually loose 112lbs