Bonnie151
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Sep 23, 2006
Hello!
This is me:
As of Monday I weighed 11 stone 11lbs (165lbs ). This is not good! The dress I'm wearing in the photo does not actually fit me. 5 minutes after I took the photo, the zip burst. This is not good! We're off to WDW in 3.5 weeks and I REALLY want to bring this dress along and not burst the zip!
So- my short term goal is to lose half a stone (7lbs) in the 4 weeks to WDW- a bit ambitious, but we'll see. Longer term, I want to get down to 140 then I'll see how I'm doing and whether I want to lose a bit more.
I don't do calorie counting or Weight Watchers or Dukan or any other specific diet. I know what my problem is - too many large mugs of coffee with spoonful after spoonful of sugar, munching on crisps, sneaking the kids' packets of biscuits and too much general junk. Plus a complete lack of exercise. I walk the kids to school each day and home most days which for me is 2 miles each trip, but only half of each trip counts as exercise because the other half is done at the slow pace of a 7 year old girl!
I hate running, but I absolutely love cycling!! Not road cycling- hate road cycling - but good, muddy off road, dirt track complete chaos cycling. I used to cycle all the time but then I had kids so it's been 10 years! I started back up this week, and oh does it feel good! I'm fortunate enough to live within a couple of minutes of the national 75 cycle path and dozens and dozens of other paths, so roughly half my cycling is done on pavement and the other half is in the mud!
I brought my camera this morning on my ride so that I could post photos here to inspire me to get out when it's wet and miserable, but when I got down to the river I realised I'd left the memory card in the PC. Very annoying! It's supposed to rain for the next few days, but hoepfully I'll get some photos up next week.
I'm going to weigh myself on Saturdays so that I know how much I weigh right before we go to WDW.
This is me:
As of Monday I weighed 11 stone 11lbs (165lbs ). This is not good! The dress I'm wearing in the photo does not actually fit me. 5 minutes after I took the photo, the zip burst. This is not good! We're off to WDW in 3.5 weeks and I REALLY want to bring this dress along and not burst the zip!
So- my short term goal is to lose half a stone (7lbs) in the 4 weeks to WDW- a bit ambitious, but we'll see. Longer term, I want to get down to 140 then I'll see how I'm doing and whether I want to lose a bit more.
I don't do calorie counting or Weight Watchers or Dukan or any other specific diet. I know what my problem is - too many large mugs of coffee with spoonful after spoonful of sugar, munching on crisps, sneaking the kids' packets of biscuits and too much general junk. Plus a complete lack of exercise. I walk the kids to school each day and home most days which for me is 2 miles each trip, but only half of each trip counts as exercise because the other half is done at the slow pace of a 7 year old girl!
I hate running, but I absolutely love cycling!! Not road cycling- hate road cycling - but good, muddy off road, dirt track complete chaos cycling. I used to cycle all the time but then I had kids so it's been 10 years! I started back up this week, and oh does it feel good! I'm fortunate enough to live within a couple of minutes of the national 75 cycle path and dozens and dozens of other paths, so roughly half my cycling is done on pavement and the other half is in the mud!
I brought my camera this morning on my ride so that I could post photos here to inspire me to get out when it's wet and miserable, but when I got down to the river I realised I'd left the memory card in the PC. Very annoying! It's supposed to rain for the next few days, but hoepfully I'll get some photos up next week.
I'm going to weigh myself on Saturdays so that I know how much I weigh right before we go to WDW.