HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL

This is my first post of many in 2007 and I hope by the end of it you will see and read about a very much slimmer me.

I have 3 main aims for 2007.

1. To carry on losing weight to get towards my goal.
2. To get fit.
3. To give up smoking.

Since I have started back at Weight Watchers (WW) in October 2006 I have exceeded all my expectations. I still have a long way to go and with the help all everyone reading this, not to mention my family and friends and of course myself, my own worse enemy I know I can do this and reach the weight that I so badly want to be for the first time in my life.

One of the most successful ways of keeping myself motivated is to set myself mini goals. My first mini goal was to lose 1 stone which was something I achieved very easily. The next mini goal I set myself was to lose 10% of my body weight by Christmas 2006 which I achieved two weeks before hand.

I have lost a total of 41 1/2lbs in total so far. That is 1/2lb short of 3 stone. My next mini target will be to lose 50lbs, hopefully by the end of January. I will set myself more mini goals after that and write about them another time.

Another good way I have recently discovered to keep motivated is to run challenges that other people can join in. I currently have 2 challenges going on. One is to lose 14lbs by Valentines week. There are lots of people taking part in this and details can be found at at the Weightloss challenge website. The other challenge is open to members of the WW 5+ message board only. I'm still in the process of setting up the challenge but the goal is for the 5+ posters to lose 2007lbs in 2007. You can find more details here.

I'll sign off for now but I'll be posting my WI result on Thursday evening. Despite not pointing a KFC on the Friday before Christmas and not pointing at all on Christmas Day, I hope I had a relatively good Christmas and I am very hopeful of a loss to get me towards my 50lb target.

Once again, Happy New Year to one and all.

Vicky xxx

P.S. The picture on this entry was taken in August 2003 towards the last attempt to lose weight. I weighed just over 20 stone in this picture.