(Another) update on the fitness regime.

I’ve been unusually silent on my fitness regime recently, so it’s probably about time for an update.

My fully catered, hideously expensive diet is paying off, and over two months I have lost about a stone in weight. For a while I didn’t do the diet foods regime because we had lots of social events on and it would have been wasted. And I have probably drunk more wine that I ought, but by and large I think that sort of weight loss in a slow sustainable way is pretty good.

Over the same two month period I have started doing more exercise (the dog walking, as I blogged the other day) and even over my non diet ‘break’ I didn’t put any weight on due to the extra exercise. So I am hoping that when I do exercise and dieting at the same time, I will lose even more.

I have two more months of my catered diet to go, and a goal to lose at least another stone, which will bring me down to the weight I was when I got married in 2003 and hopefully reduce my blood pressure into the bargain. Then I am hoping that with what I have learned about portion control and ‘good’ foods, I will be able to cater for myself and lose even more. I would dearly love to be ten stone again (until I was almost 30, I weighed eight stone but that may be somewhat unrealistic!).

I am on a promise from The Hubby that if I lose enough weight to bring me down to my goal of 10st 10lb, he will buy me a pair of Armani jeans. I don’t think he realised they cost about £350 when he made that promise, but he’ll have to stand by it now, because I’m going to do my utmost to achieve it.

I’m also determined to have a bikini body by the time I go away at the end of the year, and if that could be by the end of September I’d be even more pleased. I haven’t worn a bikini for donkey’s years (probably pre baby) but there’s no reason why not if I can lose my fat belly – I mean, God! The sights you see on the beach and I wonder why I’m worrying.

Apparently you can see the weight loss so far in my face, which was a surprise to me and rather motivating. I knew I had several chins to rival any idol of the Buddha, but I had no idea they had got so bad as too be commented upon. Clearly, they had, and now some of them have gone. Never mind – chin up darling, all of them!

I’m now hoping that the knees and back hold up for me to continue with the walking. It’s a real test, and ideally they will strengthen so that I can do even more and tone up the saggy areas which have embedded themselves due to lack of exercise over the past few years due to injury. I’m not sure what I’ll do if they give way, seeing as we don’t have health insurance any more and I’d be dead before the NHS got round to treating something like that. Resort to crawling, I suppose.

So wish me luck with the next two months. There will be a week’s break in late September when I go on holiday (yes, again!) but apart from that I should be able to focus with few distractions.

Here goes…..