So tomorrow the husband and I start our diets. God I hate the word diet don’t you? The whole sound of it and it has me grabbing for the Ben & Jerry’s. Its like a bad word that you wish would go away much worse than a swear word. Our last attempt of dieting was earlier this year ahead of our dream holiday at Disney World. I was doing really well and managed to lose half a stone over a six week period. Then no matter what I did I gained weight every week. I could walk for 10 miles a week and then the weight gain would be there. I then felt something moving in my stomach and considered that I might be pregnant. Well it turned out that there was no baby and on 24th November 2017 I had an ovarian cancerous tumour removed from my body.
It was the same size as a 28 week pregnant woman carrying twins. Very fortunate for me it was sat inside a cyst and therefore hadn’t spread so I was very lucky to be given a second chance at life. That put the weight loss dream at a standstill I could no longer exercise and at the same time was gutted that after removal I had only lost 9 pounds. I always felt like it should have been more than this. Then with me having major surgery I couldn’t eat or exercise properly and ended up boarding my flight to America with a grand old weight loss of 1.5 stone. Not the weight loss dream that I had prior to my holiday. At the same time my husbands answer to stress is always the same: Eat, eat, eat.
He is your typical comfort eater so that put us behind and then you enter America and you have never seen so much food. Plus its impossible to eat anything else but rubbish at Disney World. But as we were getting this mass amount of exercise going around the parks it didn’t matter. Then we arrive back in Portugal WHAM right into the summer heat and all you want to do is relax and eat icecream. So we worked out butts off over the summer and ate a tub of Ben & Jerrys every night. Roll onto the end of the summer and I am the biggest I have ever been and to get me out of the obesity category I need to lose 4 stone, or to get myself back down to a size 12 I need a weight loss of 5 stone.
Either way you look at it I need to lose lots and lots of weight. So tomorrow I start my weight loss journey and what a journey I expect it to be. I will also be throwing myself straight back into exercise with three lots of 15 minute sessions a day. Anyway more about that later and I cant wait to lose that dreaded four stone I have carried along with me for so long.
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