He worked me hard!

And I am so unfit!
So I emailed the PT on Sunday night and he called me Monday morning and arranged to meet at 6ish that night. His name is Ivor and he's an ex-rugby player! BTW, yesterday, I had one of those slim days. You know when every now and then you have a fat day? Well yesterday I looked in the mirror and was pleasantly suprised!
Anyway, so I went to the gym yesterday evening and met Ivor. He's a really nice guy and he specialises in weight loss and management. He weighed me and took my blood pressure and heart rate and then we started a workout.
First I went on the crosstrainer for 5 minutes to warm up. Then we went to the personal training area and did a circuit.
First started with 30 steps on the step bench (15 on each leg) and then 2 sets of weight lifts. Then I had to do 20 kettle ball swings and then lay on the mat and lift a 3kg ball from side to side. We did that twice but I had to stop a couple of times in between as I started to feel light headed.
We started talking again and I opened my big fat mouth! I mentioned about thinking of doing the Race For Life. Dumbass!! He decided that that would be my goal! At least it's in June and he thinks that I would be ready by then. I guess he knows what he is doing!

On a side note, I bought some size 14 trousers because they were in the sale and looked great. I'm currently a size 16-18 so imagine my shock when I was able to get them on and do them up! They were tight but it still happened!!

I'm happy!

Personal Trainer

As part of my weight loss regime, I'm thinking of getting a personal trainer. I've wanted one for a while but never got round to it. They do them at my gym. I think it's about £25-30 an hour so I would probably do it once a month unil I am closer to my target weight and then amp it up to once every two weeks.
I really want to lose weight first but gradually tone up. I'll a call tomorrow and find out some details.
By the way, I didn't take my measurements down. I keep forgetting! I have to do it first thing in the morning so that it would tie up with my weight. On a good note though, I bought a pair of jeams in size 16 and they keep falling down! Hopefully I'll notice more differences soon!

New thoughts...

I've been spying on other people's blog and got a couple of ideas to add onto mine.
Firstly, I'm gonna take my measurements and update them at each weigh-in. I'm gonna measure my bust, waist, hips, thighs, calf and upper arm. I'll try and do this tonight and update it. With my weight loss being so slow, I think it would help to see if I am losing inches!
Also, I have added some slimspiration pictures! I'd love to be able to shoot a picture like that because, believe it or not, I was once hot!
Because I have all of this weight to lose, I'm going to have hardly any clothes that fit me! I'll probably just get rid of all of my clothes and start again! I was thinking of getting a personal shopper for a day to get some key items and then do the rest myself. The only problem is that a lot of the shoppers work for House of Fraser or Debenhams, and you can only buy things from those shops. Personally, I like Topshop and Dorothy Perkins and a whole other host of stores so would like to shop there too.
The other thing I was thinking was to do a couple of big shopping trips and do it myself. I would write out a list of what I want to achieve and some key looks and basics. I'll look online for some inspiration and then make a list of what I want to get. The one thing I want to do is make sure that I can get a lot of outfits and looks out of just a few pieces so I need to go for things that I can mix and match. The only thing is that you can never guess what colour I'm going to be wearing! I wear every colour known to man! I might have to o a bit of the list tonight!
What a project!

Weird thing happened the other night...

There we were, sleeping away. We have the TV on during the night because we like to have the radio on.
I was just dreaming that I was Jack Bauer and I was asking someone to look for Bill Buchanan and then the alarm went off. I asked my OH what the time was and he said that it was the 6.50 alarm. I didn't feel like I had slept for very long so I looked at the TV through blurry eyes and saw that it said the time was 2.40am. I told my OH this and he didn't believe me. I don't blame him though because he did have the clock right in front of him telling him the time and I had to squint across the room at the TV without my glasses on.
I told him to look at the laptop time and that agreed with me. We then put it onto BBC News 24 and that agreed too.
The strange thing is that it is a radio controlled alarm clock! He took the batteries out and put the back in and then it went back to the correct time.
Off we drifted back to sleep (although, by this time, we had been up for 20 minutes!)
How random.....

So close, dammit... so close....!

I'm really annoyed now. I got into the stupid habit of basically weighing myself everytime I went to the toilet or went past the bathroom! The result being that I saw myself at 14st 13lbs (my first goal) but when I weighed myself this morning for my official weigh-in, I was 15st exactly. Now to be perfectly honest, that is great, but I still wish that I got to that target. I lost another pound though so at least i'm getting there. Slowly but surely. I've only been on this diet for 11 days rather than the 14 that I should have been so in the next 3 days, I probably could get down to that. I have, however told myself that I will not weigh myself until next week Thursday!

Well... Here goes!

I probably should have started this last week but never mind!
My name is Cat and I am on a journey to lose weight. Only 3 years ago I was a lot slimmer - probably about a size 10 but still very curvy. I remember that I was always a heavy person anyway but now I have shot up to just over 16 stone. Basically I was around 224 pounds last year.
I decided to do Slimming World last year November and I got down to 211 pounds. I basically lost 13lbs which is great because everyone was saying that I should just wait until after Christmas. After Christmas, I put on 2lbs and I really did eat!!! I was very please with that. I started back on Slimming World last week.
I decided to do it online but because I paid for it on the Thursday before I started, my weight in is on a Thursday. I started last week Monday so was pleasantly suprised when I lost 2lbs by Thursday! I've really been sticking to the diet and I have really been craving anything which is good.
My target is 11stones which will just get me into my recommeded BMI. I'll see if I am then happy with the weight. According to the graph online, I should get to my target by July. My actual target is September as I go to Florida at the beginning of the month. My current weight is 15st 1lb. I am 2lbs away from one of my mini goals which is for me to get under 15stone. My goal after that would be another 10lbs away as I would like to get under 200lbs.
I'll try to keep you updated as my journey continues.
Here's a picture where I think you can really see my weight.