I have had a few days away from my blog to consider what I want from this experience of laying my days bare to the unseen viewer. Examined closely, the motivation for doing this is a quiet nagging voice in my head that says that life is beating my health again and I need to be accountable for the choices of food and lifestyle that I make. I must see that I will be held accountable either through ill health, physical discomfort or shortened life. There is no escape except reform.

In 2009 I lost 60lbs of weight. I embraced exercise as a necessity. I measured my food and counted calories. I was successful in my strategy. However, then my work commitments grew. My energy and focus on my needs receded and my old weight started to pile on as I abandon my successful strategy. I am now 16lbs heavier and have to get back to setting me as a priority.

So today is day 1 of the 2010 campaign. Workload is still a problem, but one that I am going to have to develop new successful strategies for.

  • I will wear my KiFit and record my calorie use each day.
  • I will carry on recording my food and exercise on my Spark People account, and will link to this from this blog.
  • I will build a photo record of my meals ( where taking them has been logistically possible)
  • I will put a summary of my nutritional intake each day
  • I will put a summary of my exercise each day.

Be warned, I eat strange food. I get bored very easily and like to combine tastes, textures, colours, sweet and savouries. My meals can look eclectic but my choices are usually driven by what my instinct tells me my body needs. Part of my personal challenge is keeping my mind (which is very dominant and used to being in charge) in sync with my body (which has been ignored, abused and taken for granted for years). They are a team, and its about time they started working for the common good!

My current weight is 299lbs and this will not happen again. So that’s decided….