Yesterday

Good evening. I thought I would share with you my achievement yesterday.

For so long I have been so fat that walking really has hurt my back. It was ok for about 200 yards, if that and then it hurt. I knew that losing a few pounds would solve that and indeed for the last few weeks I have been able to walk the half a mile or so to the bus stop after work (I get a lift there) without it hurting. Last week, I attempted to walk to the next bus stop and I achieved this so yesterday I went for it and walked to Tesco. It is about a mile each way, plus the walking around the store which accounts for approximately 6700 steps at my normal rate. I was so proud of myself for achieving this "No Scale Victory" (NSV) and I am NEVER EVER going to let myself get to the stage that I cannot walk again.

Some friends think I am very brave for writing this blog, however I want to do it as much for myself in that it will show me how far I have come. I do have targets along the way which I am not going to share with you just yet except for one and that is to get another 2lbs off before Christmas. That will mean I will have lost 10% of my body weight since I rejoined Weightwatchers. That will be a big psychological point for me.

In this blog, I will also share information about my personal life as well as my work life and social life which is pretty non existent at the moment. However, I feel this is related to my weigh loss journey as I know with weightloss, comes confidence and with that will come back my social life.

Anyway, The picture of me was taken in April. I rather like this one.

Thanks for reading.

Vicky xx