new year, new me

This is it. I'm sick and tired of being fat, lazy and emotionally eating my way through life. 

I used to be pretty damn spiffing, if I do say so myself. After my marriage and subsequent relocation, I went through a very depressing stage and stopped basically caring about what I looked like, what I ate, and frankly pretty much everything. Fast forward six years, a pregnancy, and a decision to be a stay-at-home mom (a decision  I have never regretted to this day), I remain a fatty blob. Ok, not a blob but a bloob, a wanna-be blob. Hence my decision to finally, FINALLY do something about my weight and general level of fitness. 

I have decided to blog about my fitness journey, simply so that I can be accountable to myself and others. I am going to now either bore my non-existent readers or shock them by noting down my measurements. I refuse to be a slave to the weighing scale. The damn thing always shows either a weight gain or a weight plateau, which always throws me for a loop and a subsequent dive into the many fatty delights of French Bakery because, if you arecalorie-counting and working out but there are no results, one might as well bow down to the will of the gods and become a willing disciple at the altar of Food. 

Without further ado:

Current Measurements:

Chest: 37 (bloody hell)

waist: 31

Stomach: 36 (oh Good Lord)

Bum: 39.5 (Who's got booty now, bitches!)

Arm: 11.5

Weight: 66 kg

Oh Jesus.

Aims:

Weight: 55-57 kg

Chest: 36

Waist: 30

Stomach: Hell, if it was 28 and below I would be over the fricking moon. 

Bum: 36

How I am going to do this:

For the month of February, my aims are to basically do AT LEAST 30 min of cardio (on the elliptical) 5 days a week, and if possible a walk twice a week. I should note that at present I do not have gym membership, nor have I signed up for any fitness classes. I thought about doing both, but since my kid is still very young, plus the fact that the timings for the classes is not at all suitable to a stay-at-home mom who has to wait for hubby to come home to babysit, there really is no point in it. I would invariably miss at  least half the classes, and then inevitably get lazy. 

As far as diet is concerned, no soda and no cakes/biscuits/bakery stuff. 

Day One already done. 30 min of elliptical and so far, no deviations from diet. Lets get cracking!