50 by 50. It begins.

[f4f3]

I won't do the business traveller moaning, since I've been put in a nice hotel with a gym and a pool. I've been in the gym twice and the pool once since I got here, and I'll be heading in that direction in 30 minutes or so. I don't think going to the gym twice a day is going to last, but it's a good start to the 50 by 50 campaign, which I've just this moment thought of. My fiftieth birthday is 4 months away. I reckon I'm around 20 pounds overweight. The internet seems to think that I'm between between 40 and 80 pounds over my ideal weight. I'm thinking that 40 by 50 sounds good, but 50 by 50 sounds even better. In old money that's about three and half stone, and would put me down to around 12 stone. The lightest I've been in the last 10 years or so is a whisker above 14 stone. I have 120 days to lose 50 pounds. Call it three pounds a week. That's a lot. That might be impossible. I don't think it's unhealthy, quite, but it might be an unrealistic target. But even if I fail, I'm going to be a much healthier failure.

I'm a leaf on the wind. Or something.

Comments

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

I might tag along with you on this particular journey - I could stand to lose about the same amount of weight.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I could do with the company.

[jen-c-w.livejournal.com]

12 stone sounds tiny for a man of your height/build!

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

It does sound a little scary!

[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

That's one hell of an ambition - cheering for you from the sidelines.

:)