My work so far.

Ok, here we go, this might be a long one.

I am 29 years old and I have been a big lassie my entire life.  At age 13 I was 13 stone, 14 I was 14 stone, 15....well you see where i'm going with this. 

Anyway, the straw that broke it for me was 21 stone 9 pounds.

Last year a family member broke the news that there was to be a wedding in the family in 2011.  Fear gripped my body like a vice. "OH NO!!!! A family wedding! With another family!! A skinny family!"

I've been to my fair share of weddings this past few years and I've not been terribly pleased with any of the photographs of me that came from them (how could I be, they didn't just make me look fat - they made me like how i actually look - a million times worse!) so the thought of having to get dressed up for an occasion with people that I don't know very well and looking like the elephant in the room really didn't fill me with pleasure (which i should have felt for the occasion itself!!)

So on the 28th July 2010 I stepped onto my little bathroom scale (bought especially because it went up to the biiiiig numbers) and saw the reading. 

21 Stone 9 pounds exactly.

Prime for heart attacks and diabetes. 

Super.

Now what?!

Well, here's what I did.

I have a wonderful smart phone. It's an HTC hero.  The best part about it however are the little applications  that you can download from the "Android Marketplace" (by the way, I'm not sponsored by anyone, i'm just telling you what I did!).  The application that i credit with saving my life is one called Kilo.  All it is, is a way to mark down how many calories you eat in a day. Yes, a pen and a piece of paper would probably work exactly the same way, but I'm a child of technology! This way I have it all within my favourite little toy in my pocket all the time!

I have always known that there is nothing medically wrong with me in regards to my weight. I am not "big boned" nor do I have a "slow metabolism" and I certainly don't have a glandular problem. I am just greedy! I eat too much too often and it was that that had to stop.

(Told you I wasn't a writer didn't I? - ramblin' roads! Anyway, carrying on).

So, I decided to start counting calories and to not stop until that blumin' wedding!  I started out at about 1800 and quickly decided that that was far too many, so these days i tend to fluctuate between 1200 and 1500 per day hoping to maintain a 2 lb loss per week.

It seems to be working as i'm now sitting at 16 stone 13 and a half pounds!

*happy face*