Happy New year to you! So here we are on the very first day of 2009 with lots of people probably nursing hangovers, others laden with new year resolutions and some like me just looking forward to what should hopefully be a healthy and happy year ahead.
The Mrs and I welcomed in the new year browsing and shopping online (sad but true!) in-between watching the BBC’s iPlayer coverage of the new year being welcomed in by fireworks around the London Eye.
In keeping with the theme of the day I decided to invest some time rummaging through my wardrobes in an attempt to sort out what now fits me and what doesn’t – not to mention what can be considered fashionable or not as the case may be! I’m an official hoarder you see 
Now don’t get me wrong the fact that I’m now hovering just below the 16 stone mark is very pleasing, but the sheer number of clothes I’m having to get rid of is scary! Take my work trousers for example, I’m passing 13 of them onto charity, leaving me with only 4 left. Now that tells me a lot….I’ve got too many work trousers and God only knows how many other clothes will be finding themselves a new home.
Oh well my loss is someone elses gain and for me that’s a positive start to the new year.
Poor old Katherine Jenkins. How difficult it must have been for this talented multi-millionaire songstress to come clean and reveal to the tabloids that she’d done various drugs in her pre-stardom days. Grown men and women have leapt to her defence and expressed admiration for her having the strength to come clean.
Oh come off it. I mean really, how hard could it have been for her. She’s well liked (as the public/media reaction illustrates) and financially secure (having recently been awarded a £6 million pound recording contract).
Can you imagine the outcry if a lesser known/squeaky clean personality had come out about their past misdemeanours. Need I say more?
Of course there is the issue of Christmas being just 51 days away and a certain ‘Sacred Arias‘ album having been released just a couple of weeks ago – so it couldn’t be one massive marketing and media push by her agent could it?
Nah, our Katherine is too nice for that. Surely.
It’s now been two whole weeks since set our weight loss targets and today was our first progress weigh-in.
Thankfully it was good news with both Mrs DDWT and I shedding 3lbs each – taking our weight to 12st 9lb and 17st 3lb respectively. It was a welcome surprise and lifted our spirits quite considerably on what was proving (mentally) to be a tough weekend.
After I’d spend the morning doing a bit of landscaping work in the garden – removing some lawn and replacing with chippings (in readiness for some large flower) pots – it was time for a family get together at ours.
I think it was just the tonic the whole family needed in light of the events of the past couple of days. DDWT Junior and I kept everyone amused with our water antics – which was great fun and Baby DDWT was all smiles especially for my Dad, which lifted his spirits no end.
So all in all it’s been a nice end to what’s been a thought provoking couple of days. I think that we’re going to need as many of these ‘days’ as possible over the coming months.
Now that Baby DDWT has turned a month old – yes it’s been that long already – we’ve decided to turn our attention back to getting into our old dietary and training routine again. And what better way to do that than set a target weight we both want to reach.
Let’s face it, when you want to achieve anything you have to set yourself challenging but realistic goals – which is what we have done. So by December 1st 2008, Mrs DDWT wants to be 10st 7lbs and I want to be 16st.
We figured that Christmas would be a great time to achieve our goals and at the same time set another challenge of keeping to those weights – despite the festive season!
As things stood this morning, Mrs DDWT was 12st 12lbs – she’ll play mary hell when she knows I’ve put that on here – and I was 17st 6lbs. Don’t fret my love, after all you only gave birth to our beautiful daughter a month ago. DDWT Junior also decided to get in on the weighing act and tipped the scales at 3st 3.5lbs.
So now we’ve gone public with our aims and objectives there’s no hiding from the shame if we don’t get to our target weight and it also serves as some extra motivation!
Yes it’s true my weight has now rocketed back up to 18 stone. It hurts to think how I’ve drifted back into my old habits i.e eating junk or lots of food in general and not exercising.
It really does make me feel sooooo down in the dumps, not because I weigh that much, but because I’ve left myself get to that point – having only last year shed a lot of weight to get to 16st 3lbs (which made me feel more than great at the time).
Feeling sorry for myself isn’t going to help though, getting off my lazy backside and being stronger willed (in terms of food) are the only things that are going to get me out of this rut I seem to be currently stuck in.
On a brighter (well magnolia in fact) note, I’ve finally finished painting our downstairs hallway. Now there’s only the downstairs loo, and upstairs landing to do!! Still it looks good and when I’ve tidied up the coving/skirting boards, it’ll really look the mutts nuts I’m sure.