Seventh Weigh-In

Greetings All!

I'm writing this on the day immediately following the general election. What a night! What a decision for Nick Clegg!
Let David Cameron take Number 10 knowing that the Conservatives are vehemently opposed to so much of what is most important to himself and his party?
Or prop up Gordon Brown, a far more natural political bedfellow, knowing it would mean sacrificing far fewer principles, but of course opening the door to all sorts of understandable criticism that the largest single party do not actually form the government?

Perhaps the injustice (ok to me, at least!) of his party taking 23% of the popular vote but less than 9% of the available seats may be just slightly counterbalanced that they now appear to have the choice of who is living at Number 10 next week...

I think this could prove an interesting weekend! Anyway, enough of politics...

Bleary-eyed after a late night / early morning watching the results, I staggered into the doctors at lunchtime for my regular weigh-in. I admit that I wasn't feeling too confident really, I have to say that I don't think I've been as disciplined since coming back from Orkney as I was beforehand, and I actually feared that I may go up a bit.

Anyway, there were 3 goals that were in the ballpark for this weigh-in - chiefly I wanted to break the 30-stone barrier, and just beyond that was 190kg, for metric-lovers, and in between was the BMI of 60.

Well, Nurse Jackie's computer said I have a BMI of 60 (still awful as anything more than 30 is 'obese' - a long way to go still...) So that means I didn't break 190kg - I am now officially 190.2kg - but that does mean I have a weight finally of 20-something stone, rather than 30-something. Not by much admittedly (29 1/2 stone). Anyway, a nice milestone - and I've got to keep going...

I've got to see this as a let-off and make sure that I go down by more next time.

Finally, I just want to say a big THANK YOU. All sorts of people have been in touch encouraging me in different ways, and I was really quite moved when lots of old friends have got in touch through this that I've hardly seen in years. Obviously lots of people want me to continue to change my lifestyle so that I may actually still be around in a few years.

What can I say, I really don't want to let you all down, and I pray that I won't; in my own strength I haven't really got an earthly; with God's help and with the support of people that patently care about me, I may just get there.