THATS A WEIGHT OFF MY MIND

New Year’s resolutions, eh?

They’re made to be broken aren’t they?

 But if I’m honest there’s one I made way back on January 5^th in this very column that I’m extremely disappointed at myself for not achieving .

For amongst the promises I made to finally pass my driving test, start getting some ideas together to write a book and look into doing some more adult education classes, lay the one thing that would have made the world of difference to my well being and confidence but I let it fall by the wayside along with the rest as I made numerous excuses for why it just wasn’t happening.

To quote from that piece and refresh everyone’s memories, I declared that with my big 40^th birthday looming on the horizon that the only number I wanted to be making a statement with was my age not the size of my ballooning waistline.

However, somewhere along the way that got sidelined as party preparations followed by wedding arrangements took precedence over everything else and I ended up being not only a larger than life party girl but also the big bridesmaid I hadn’t wanted to be.

A few unflattering photos and a wedding video where I wasn’t caught at any of my best angles later though, and it was enough to spur me on to finally do something about it.

There’s nothing quite like watching a frumpy tubby woman waddling and sweating profusely on the reception dance floor thinking she looks cool but instead bringing to mind Anne Widdecombe during a dance sequence on Strictly, and then realising its you to give you a swift kick up your ample backside and straight through the doors of your local slimming world meeting.

So that’s where I’ll be every Monday night now for the time being as realising that to carry the weight off I’m clocking in at presently healthily I would have to be well over 6ft 8 has been a real eye opener for me .

At 40 years old I’ve quite probably had all I’m going to get in the growing stakes at 5ft if I’m honest , so a regime of healthier eating and being more active sounds far less extreme than being stretched out on a rack every evening , I think you’ll agree.

I’ve had one weigh in so far with a loss of 1 and a half pounds so hopefully it’s onwards and upwards from here.

And who knows , last time I shed a lot of weight and gained what I’d lost in confidence I ended up having the guts to do the course that lead to me writing this column here, so maybe some time soon I’ll be ticking off all those other things on my resolution list as achieved .