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This is me: Overweight Unhealthy Cholesterol high.

My first blog, journal, foray into public anything.  I know there will be haters and trolls out there, but I reckon I’m quite a strong person so hopefully I can take it.  I’m not looking for approval, sympathy (maybe empathy) or anything like that – just a way to vent about what I’m feeling and how this next challenge travels its course. Big challenges ahead but it’s time to sort myself out and address dietary and exercise issues while it’s relatively easily fixable and manageable.

6: Few Hiccups

First a bit of good news – liver scan all good.

Few hiccups with salt though I’m afraid.  Not much, certainly nothing like I used to, but this is clearly creeping back in so I need to watch it.  Still good on the butter front though – no croissants on the way to work, no butter in the fridge!  Still not used my treadmill so need to get this sorted as well.

In short having some bad days.

I guess this is quite normal and I really hope so – make a good start then falter.  All a bit odd and silly really, particuarly given that I lost a little bit of weight last week so could see that things were working, even without the increased exercise.  Really need to find the switch in my head to make sure it’s fully on.

Thought about weighing myself today but if I’ve gained I’ll fall apart and pop over to Tesco to buy some brioche or something – so I’m not going to risk it.  My niece T has a personal trainer, and she was advised to weigh herself every day to see fluctuations, but I’m not strong enough for that yet!

For the exercise side of things, this isn’t about training to run a marathan (I’ll leave those to my friend A – slightly crazy, runs marathons, ultra marathons and all sorts, think she could probably run from London to the Wirral in one go!).  For me it’s more about keeping things moving in terms of blood flow, arteries, heart and so on.  A bonus will be further help with losing weight but also getting some strength back.  Even in my skinny younger days I was strong.  Now, I have the strength of a toddler.  Arms, legs everything so I’m hoping the walking will help build this as part of generally-improved body health.

Otherwise on the food front I’m doing ok.  Definitely eating less as well as better.  Having said that, along with other slippages this week I’m struggling with not eating again around 9pm.  I’m not hungry but haven’t been able to get out of the mental habit of eating again.  Need to work harder on this too!

Bit negative today for which I apologise, but hopefully this is a common theme with anybody on this type of journey.  For any travel companions – find your switch, keep going!  We can do this.

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