First Weigh-In

Well, I promised that I'd let you know how I might be getting on. On Friday (19th) I did indeed face the scales.
It was, as expected, a pretty humiliating experience. Bearing in mind I visited the weight clinic, even their scales didn't go up to me; I had to weight for the ante-natal session in the room next door to finish before I could use their special scales, I presume designed for particularly heavy triplets!

The result:- 206.3kg. If (like me!) you may be wondering about exactly that means in 'normal' measurements, then it's basically 32 stone and very nearly 9 pounds. Hmmm.
In a weird way, I was at first relieved that it wasn't even more; 32-and-a-half stone is indeed, frankly, shameful, but I was nervous that I may be crowding 40...
But the nurse worked me out as having a BMI of 65 which is just hideous, I'm either lucky or blessed to still be here in one piece.

Then I thought that I'd check the 'Healthy Weight BMI Calculator' on the NHS website (http://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/Healthyweightcalculator.aspx) - I thought I'd see just how morbidly obese I really am - and I had the message 'These measurements seem unlikely. Please check them to make sure they are correct'. All those old jokes about 'one at a time please' and 'no coach parties' indeed coming back to haunt me!

So a 'healthy' weight for my height 5'11(ish) is around 12 stone - meaning that I'm around 20 stone overweight - no wonder the NHS calcultator thought I was taking the mickey.

The key question of course, is 'What am I going to do about it?' I really am determined to do something about this, but just trying to take something vaguely resembling exercise, and slash the amount of junk I eat will help, but not very quickly.

So the two things that I am going to start with, under strong recommendation, are;
i) The delights of 'Orlistat' a thoroughly unpleasant weight loss pill that I admit I've tried before and wimped out of - the side-effects really are particularly grotesque; I'm sure you can guess and won't thank me for spelling it out.
ii)There's a group for other really fat blokes meeting at my local leisure centre, I'll be joining up with soon

I will of course be letting you know how I get on - with perhaps a few details missed out!