You go to get blood tests & the next thing you're standing on scales...

...crying (or wanting to!).  So who knew not doing any exercise & over-eating would result in weight gain?  I know...it's beyond belief really isn't it?!

I went to get blood taken because I have finally found a doctor who has agreed to give me food allergy tests, after I took in photographs to show what happens when I eat (I look 8 months pregnant, stomach rock hard...really, really quite uncomfortable.  See -->) and I explained that even though I've discovered wheat & yeast are oot the door for me, there's something else and I have not managed to identify what it is.  The doctor I now have is brilliant, she not only listens but she discusses different options and informs me of the potential benefits/downfalls of an option.  For example, getting allergy tests done will only show something up if I'm allergic, doesn't show up intolerances.  So...these tests are really just to make sure that I've only got intolerances and not allergies.  Then after that, she said she can refer me to a specialist dietician to help me work out what it is I'm reacting with.

Anyway, when I was at the nurse today she asked me to 'hop on to the scales' (after reading my weight, it's just as well I didn't 'hop' onto them as they'd now be broken!!).  I took off my boots (was pretty much gonna strip naked and ask her to hold my boobs then I would've been prepared to 'hop on the scales') and stepped on.  Oh dear lord...what have I done to myself??  Why have I let myself get this fat?  This over-weight & unfit?  I could give a few different, well thought-out excuses....but you know what?  I'm bored with my excuses, because they are just that...excuses!  Dull, dull, dull.

So, I am publically announcing that I will lose at least 4 stone this year.  No excuses (other than things outwith my control...eg. severe illness where I'm bed ridden and am looked after by a feeder, or I'm kidnapped by a supporter of the 'ch' food group and they force feed me all the ch's).

I'm thinking of having a photo diary, but I probably won't publish it until the weight loss has happened, because I don't want to throw myself into some kind of downward spiral into a pit of dispair before I even start.

So with 359 days left of 2012 I've worked out that I need to lose 0.1559888579 of a lb per day...that doesn't seem so bad now!!  Hell that sounds positively simple!!  HAHAHAHAHAHAH *Oh Oh*