Great start to the year...

Wednesday 8th January 2025

Well it's been over a month since I blogged and I've had a wonderful Christmas, a lovely rest and time with the family.  Bonus I maintained my weight which you can imagine pleased me enormously but now it's time to lose some weight.  

I indulged but didn't go crazy, I had my usual Christmas breakfast of a bottle of prosecco with orange juice :) I enjoyed some Bailey's, Whiskey, Port - all the important stuff - not all in one day of course and yes I did eat food too!

I opened my Nutracheck app on January 1st and I've 100% honestly tracked since, that probably helped me with the maintain when I weighed on Tuesday.  

I'm eating some delicious food, trying to think a bit more about what I eat and realising once again how much I really enjoy healthy food.   Here's some of the meals I've eaten this year proving you can eat great food and it's why I love calories because you can have anything as long as you count it, don't have to miss out on a glass of red. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is everything tracked so far this year,

  

This is how many calories my Fitbit says I've burned so hopefully next week I'll get a weight loss. 

 

I'm going to start blogging again to help keep me on track, I need to lose weight to help my pain, my knee is in bits and weight loss will help ease the pain.  I've got a telephone appointment to discuss the xray on Monday but I've already seen the comments from the Consultant Radiologist, it's not pretty tri-compartmental moderate change most marked in the medial compartment which from googling is tri-compartmental osteoarthritis which affects the whole knee and there's no cure, just painkillers, steroids and ultimately a knee replacement, so let's lose some weight to hopefully give me some relief.

On a positive, I went back to the gym today and managed to walk a mile on the treadmill slowly, it took me 25 minutes and I could've cried at the end it as so painful but I did it, this time last year I couldn't walk for 5 minutes because of my back, yeah I've got spondylolisthesis too, how lucky am I to have all these long worded conditions!

slow and steady, if I could lose 1/2lb a week, that's almost 2 stone by Christmas, 1lb a week would be 52lb which is almost the weight of a sack of spuds! 

Every pound lost is the equivalent of 4lb of pressure off my knee, that's my motivation and I need to not forget it!

What's your motivation?  Let's do this together - make 2025 our year!  You in?