April 05, 2004

Oh it's so sweet to step on the scales

Especially since the figures are going down, down, down.

I started the year at X pounds. In Orlando, I carried a pair of jeans which I could not wear because it felt like my middle was being cut in two when I put it on. So I used the time while there for the week, to get into the gym, ride the bicycles and so on. I figured that the end of 2004 was not going to come and find me how I started.

Back home, I continued doing exercise. Walking at the Dam, then joined the gym. Before I left here for Barbados two weeks ago, I was weighing X - 6.

Remember the post about the lying scale? Well turns out it not too lie at all.

Came back on 'The Rock' today, and did two laps at the Dam this evening, then, in order to validate the scale reading in Bim, I drove to the gym to weigh on that scale. Got to keep things consistent ent?

Well, well. Stepped on the scale very confidently. The result? I now weigh X - 6 - 6!

For all the math brains from primary school, you would have worked out that I've lost 12 pounds in the 3 months since I started the exercising again. I need to now aim for 5 pounds per month.

It's the cricket you know that did it. No, not because I stopped eating because I was depressed from the 3-0 results so far, and the impending whitewash, but because when I am at cricket, I'm distracted, and I also walk up and down A LOT.

For example, in Barbados, everytime I wanted to use the potty, I had to walk down two flights of stairs and then walk back up. I had to go seek interviews which also involved stair climbing. I walk across the field before play starts too. But more importantly, I don't think about food.

Fortunately, I only have to negotiate 2 weeks on 'The Rock' before I travel again for cricket (yes, sucker for punishment). And you know say is Easter, that mean nuff bun going to be in the place. Lawks. Give me strength to not come face to face with the bun, or it's all over!

Posted by yamfoot at April 5, 2004 09:50 PM
Comments

congrats on your weight loss but try not to waste way to nothing.

Posted by: J Did at April 6, 2004 07:48 AM

Great job on the weight loss. I am so happy that you are losing weight in a healthy way. I wish you continued sucess.

Posted by: Trish at April 6, 2004 08:01 AM

Thanks!

No JDid, no chance of me wasting away. MadBull will tell you I would have to go a long, long, long way for me to look like a waif!

Posted by: Michelle at April 6, 2004 03:28 PM

More power to you. I been walking but me nuh see nuh weight a come off...then again I have no scale using.

Speaking of Easter Bun...I saw an article in the Gleaner that featured bun wid bully beef....you ever hear 'bout dat combination? Sound weird to me. I will keep de cheese.

Posted by: Dr. D. at April 6, 2004 07:51 PM

Congrats Mich. I don't think you are as big a girl as you make out though... I guess we all have our own standards for ourselves, now don't we?

Posted by: El Toro Loco! at April 7, 2004 07:47 AM

that bun and bully beef combo, sounds like the bun and jam combo a friend of mine likes. but those two go more together since they are both sweet, but the bully 'baff' is savoury and salty.

el toro, i think back to 1993/4 when i had just come back home after a year in england and felt great about my body, so that's my standard, and I'm about 50 pounds off that, so that's what I'm aiming for. as motivation, i put a picture taken then, beside a picture taken in Orlando this january. The caption is "10 years later" with a sad face beside it.

Posted by: Michelle at April 7, 2004 09:38 AM

Yes Mich...agree that the bun and jam nuh so bad.

I won't bodda get into the weight discussion...it too heavy! :-((

Posted by: Dr. D. at April 7, 2004 08:49 PM

I seem to be climbing the scales too. Don't have the courage to step up though..what I don't know won't hurt me..yet. Age..what a stress. I will be passing on the bun this easter...well mout' mek fi talk nuh?

Posted by: Sis at April 8, 2004 03:48 PM