PS...

Here are two photos taken today 1 February 2010. I have just put on some very expensive long pants I bought from Cue last year in late October just before heading off to a conference. I couldn't find any long pants in any store (wrong season) and so I bought these very very very expensive pants. They only just fit and I was desperate. I ended up not wearing them the whole trip because I couldn't sit down in them! I am going to try them on each week to see when they start to fit, and then get too big!

1.5kg excitment

This week I was aiming to get the scales somewhere in 85... to my surprise I have bypassed 85 all together to weigh in at 84.9 which is a 1.5kg loss! I am so proud of myself.

Especially because last week was a discovery on how bad fasta pasta was for you (4 phone calls interstate, and many people later I finally found someone who would give me the nutritional information for an entree sized spaghetti bolognaise -12.5 points! The main size was 19.5 points) and then Australia Day on Tuesday which meant BBQ sausages, eggplant, mushroom, cheese, chips, alcohol, sausages, sausages, did I meantion sausages? I ate a lot less than I usually would have because I was aware of everything but I felt that I did go overboard.

I totally credit this loss to the amount of cycling I have been doing. My boyfriend bought me a bike two weeks ago and now we ride everywhere. We ride to the shops, the park, the movies, friend's houses. I highly recommened it.

Plus, a few days ago I felt a moment of total defeat. I felt like I was never going to lose this weight (I was angry because my bf and I were heading to the movies and I really wanted to have lots of snacks and lollies and realised I couldn't behave like that food wise anymore if I wanted to be healthy). I felt that low jealous anger you get when you see skinny people eating what they want and I wish I could do that. But I got past it. I realised that 2kgs lost is 2kgs lost and it is a fantastic achievement. Now I'm up to 3.6kg lost and I am not looking back.

This'll be the start of something big...err.. small

Let's start this blog with a dress. I'm a couple of kilos down in my epic weight loss adventure, and this time, this time I am absolutely determined to get to goal and stay at goal. I want this more than anything and I can't wait for the dresses that will come my way every kilo I lose.

Here's a brief recap.

Obese since leaving high school (quite chubby in high school) but I stacked on the weight at uni and I've been big for about 10 years now. I was always the fat friend, the one who sat on the sidelines, minded people's bags at the beach while they swam and hid my size under baggy shirts or black (slimming, of course?). I have done Weight watchers before, and lost 10kg here or there, but suddenly stopped going to meeting for whatever reason and it all creeps back on. I'm 26 turning 27 this year and I don't want to waste another minute of my life minding someone else's bag because I want to hide my shape.

My friend Sarah and I are back on the wagon and we both have each other for support. I've been at this again since Monday January 4 and here's my stats!!

week 0 - 88.5kg - START
week 1 - 87.8kg ( -0.7)
week 2 - 87.2kg (-0.6) (-1.3 overall)
week 3 - 86.4kg (-0.8) (2.1 overall)

So the picture of me in the dress is at 86.4kg, 2.1kg down. I can't wait to get under 80, as my face gets a bit thinner then!

Here's me at the "start" - near my biggest - December 2009 at a Christmas celebration. I cannot wait to get rid of my big arms. I usually hide them in photographs. Who am I hiding from?