It's about bloody time!

Well, exams are over - for now, at least. For most people this means chillaxing a bit after school, now that there's not quite so much pressure on them to cram in as much information as is humanly possible. But for me, there's something I want to make a start on, as I agreed upon at the beginning of the year. When it was time for New Year's resolutions, I told myself that when exams were over, I would get in shape. That time is now.

I find this a little bit of a difficult subject to talk about, as anyone who is overweight (though in my case the situation far transcends the 'overweight' mark - officially I'm in the 'morbidly obese' category) would sympathise with. It's not easy to talk about it - well, I suppose it's more the fact that I'm reluctant to talk about it, rather than it not being easy. It's still not quite the easiest thing to blab about, though.

See the thing is, most people have been in shape, then got out of shape, and then resolved to get back in shape. With me, this is not the case. I have never actually been in shape; strange as it may seem, I have never known what it is like to be of a healthy weight and size. Even in primary school I was overweight and struggled with cross-country, often I was left breathing so heavily that people thought I had asthma.

The thing with being overweight is that it's not a sudden thing - it's not a mess that suddenly appears on the floor that you can just pick up. It's a gradual thing, that happens slowly without you noticing, and then before you know it - BAM! You're 21-stone and classed as being morbidly obese.

I feel that I should make my feelings on this somewhat more clear. I'm not looking for sympathy here; I'm just trying to make it clear how I feel about being overweight. You know, I'm not overly bothered by it, but I am bothered enough by it that I want to make a change. I'm not sure if that makes much sense, but I hope it does.

I don't really know why I felt the need to post this. I shouldn't be boring you with my troubles, but I thought it was about time that I actually spoke about it. By speaking about it and telling people about it, it gives me more reason to put effort into trying to lose weight - or else face embarrassment at the face of my readers. Now that wouldn't be nice, would it? (Probably not, I should imagine.)

For now, I bid you good day:

Good day!