Fat Fight

I have committed to do the Camino de Santiago de Compestella next year. The Camino involves walking approx 12 miles a day for 7 days. I am totally unfit, I weighed myself in tonight at 15 stone, but I know I am heavier. My son tried to convince me that the scales were right God bless him. I have been trying to motivate myself to go for a walk every day, motivtion is not that easy to come by sometimes. However, I managed to get the gear on and the shoes and get my butt out the door. I figured that if I tried a short walk (about 40 minutes) first and build it up over the weeks. 40 minutes became 3 hours. I called to visit Joan and then Anne and wandered home in the dark, but I enjoyed the walk and the new shoes I paid a fortune for, and was finding it hard to break in, felt a bit better tonight. I committed to the Camino for a couple of reasons but initially it was not really spiritual. I wanted to commit to doing something publicly that would force me to lose weight. As time went on I found reasons and people to do it for, I have a mental list of people and it is growing at a great rate.

My weight loss programme is simple and does not cost anything,

• Stop eating crap


• Walk

Any one who has been overweight for any length of time knows what they have to do to lose weight, it means getting in the right frame of mind and follow those two steps.

Tonight I watched a programme on TV about a 64 stone woman who wanted to have a gastric bypass. This woman was 29 years old and had spent most of the last few years not being able to move from the house or indeed the bed. She could not do anything with her two small girls who could only hug her arm if they wanted to be close to her. The gastric bypass went off well and during the first two months she lost 4 stone but unfortunately had a massive heart attack and died.

God rest her soul