weigh under 100kg

I will not make it by my “challenge end date”, but that’s okay, because putting a number on a date can be unrealistic – I’ve been sick twice between my last entry and now, and when you’re sick you shouldn’t exercise (or so I am told by dieticians) because it’ll only make your illness last longer. So here I am, blowing my nose and biding my time. As soon as I’m feeling well enough again I’m going to be at the gym at least three times a week. LET’S GO TEAM MEMILY!

Let’s then say… I would like to reach this weight by beginning of August… but if that doesn’t happen, that’s okay too. End September at the latest, how about that? Three quarters through the year. That’ll do nicely.

It’s a big chunk, I know. I think if I make it, it’ll be a pretty close shave. There are just over ten weeks to go until the 1st of July, though my weekly check-in will be on June 28th with WWMC. Ten weeks. Twenty kilos. I’m going to have to pull out all stops.

The KFC I had for dinner won’t have helped me at all, I’m afraid.

I think I should start walking mornings and evenings. I went for my first self-managed weights session tonight, too. Good grief, shoulder presses are so damn painful! Everything else was good, though. I wish I had a longer program there, though… I felt like I didn’t do enough. Maybe I should try some swimming, too. I’m going to go get a heart rate monitor tomorrow so I can properly monitor my… heart rate. Well, what a stupid sentence. I’M GOING TO BED.

Still a fair amount to go, though. Let’s just say I’m around the one-third mark.

Also, I finally got in to see an endocrinologist about my thyroid – I’ve got Hashimoto’s thyroiditis! Sounds pretty awesome, doesn’t it? I just started taking thyroxine yesterday morning. Once a day, every day. Probably for the rest of my life. Sigh.

BUT! 10kg down! Woohoo!

Bloodtests confirmed today that I’ve got hypothyroidism, so that could be a huge spanner in my weight-loss works, at least until my levels get sorted out. I don’t know, I guess I don’t know enough about it to really be able to say THIS IS GOING TO SUCK or THIS IS GOING TO BE FINE but I’m worried I won’t reach this goal, now I’ve gone and committed to it and all that.

I’m going to an initial consultation with Weshealth on Thursday. My step-aunt had super success with them and I’ve got high hopes that with weekly check-ups I’ll be kept on track.

I really want to get a bike helmet so I can start riding around, too! Perhaps I will do that on payday.

I’m thinking about signing up for the Lite’n’Easy diet/eating plan thing. They supply all your meals and apparently the meals are actually edible, unlike past meal-supplying fad things. It’d be handy for me because I’m lazy with cooking anyway. Even my personal trainer says that Lite’n’Easy works so if I can work out that I can afford it, I think I’ll give it a try.

I want to lose a lot more than twenty kilos but it’s better to have a believable goal. An attainable goal to start with. I started going to the gym back at the end of December and since then I’ve signed up with a personal trainer too. It’s been three months and I don’t feel like a spring chicken yet, but maybe it’s too early to judge when you have to lose as much weight as I do.