A journey for life

Hi everyone, welcome to my first ever blog.  Very exciting!

The purpose of this blog is to update you on my journey of many many steps.  I have ballooned to a weight that is not only unhealthy for my body, but also unhealthy for me personally.  I feel fat, sluggish, sad and depressed about how I look.  This is not about losing weight to look like a supermodel.  At 53 those days are long gone!  It’s about losing weight so that I can feel good about myself,  so I don’t look in the mirror and feel shocked at how big I am, to buy clothes that fit and look nice – not big tents with flowers that make me look hideous.

I want to swim, to throw on a pair of shorts and not worry.  I want my ankles to be normal, not fat and squishy.  I don’t want to be invisible any more.  And you know, fat people are invisible.  Incredible but it’s true.  We are dismissed.  Not taken seriously.  Thought of as lazy and unmotivated.

And I don’t want that any more.  I am tired of it.  So very tired.

So this is my blog.  Feel free to comment.  I will be posting regular updates and photos.  I have joined FabFeb which is a sponsored event where I am not to have any more than 10g of sugar a day for the whole of February.  I am hoping that that will kickstart the whole thing off and then I can carry on from there.  My goal is to lose 6 stone.  Yes, 6 stone!  How many kilos is that – nearly 40kgs.  Or close to 100lbs.  Whichever way you look at it, it’s a lot.  But it begins today, one pound/kilo at a time.

Thanks for reading about me.  Your support means everything to me

Sherryl