it begins now

Happy (slightly belated) New Year!  I hope that 2013 is good to you.

When I started this blog waaay back in summer 2009 I weighed 9 stone (126lbs / 57kg) which was a BMI of 23.84 (healthy).  Today I weigh 11 stone (154lbs / 69kg) which is a BMI of 29.13 (overweight).  This can not go on any longer so 2013 is going to be my Streamling Year. By the time I write my first post of 2014, I really, really, really want to be back to my 2009 weight.

I have been inspired to do this mainly because I can't lug this weight around any longer.  But I have also been inspired by Rach, who is on her own mission. Rach, you are an awesome inspiration!

questions

Today was a very quiet day at work with even more folk away on holiday than last week. I was also mostly entering data onto a database which, as anyone who has ever done it will agree, is repetitive and eventually automatic. That left my mind free to wander /wonder.

So this evening I have questions.

1. Why does the man with the synthetic shirt and the hygiene issues always find me on the bus?
2. And how could he possibly smell so bad at 7.15 in the morning?
3. Last week I lost over 4lbs in weight, so how come this week I put on 5lbs?
4. Why, when I have put 5 clean and ironed shirts in the wardrobe for Significant Other, does he go to the ironing basket and pull out one that is so creased it concertinas and wear that one to work?
5. Why am I still occasionally gleefully replaying the P0nting run-out from yesterday's cricket match in my head?
6. Am I too old (at 41) to have long hair?
7. Why do Significant Other and I talk to each other in "lol-speak"? (nom...)
8. Why do I still think "please God..." even though I lost all vestiges of faith almost 2 years ago?
9. Why is my darling cat still sneezing, even after 5 days of antibiotics?
10. Why am I so completely, illogically, insanely, convinced that I would get (and stay) pregnant if Significant Other and I were married?????