It took a while to come up with a title for this blog as the obvious one of “Losing my son” is in bad taste. Therefore, Dropping my Son and picking up a playlist, will just have to work.
What am I on about I hear you say, well today I hit another milestone in my weight loss journey. During the school holidays when my son was at the scales with me, I told him to get on as a joke and see what he weighed in at. I was then kinda shocked to realise my total loss since February 2022 was not too far off his weight. Fast forward 4 week, and today losing another 1.5lbs it took me past Harry, my 14 year old which feels like a great win.
Since coming up with the idea of “losing a Harry” I keep looking at him and thinking I have LOST almost as much as him, it is a huge boost to your morale to look and think I was carrying that around with me.
These milestone help me with my focus, drive and determination to keep it going, after all the game is not over, realistically its about “half time”.
I’m not going to go on about having a new wardrobe or how much more energy I have, yes I’m picking out older, smaller clothes and I have done 160 lengths in the pool so far this week, but I want to make a point of setting milestones and targets and how important that is in weight loss for me, and maybe you.
It is a cliche that losing weight is a journey but it is. To get anywhere you want to go, you need a signpost or two and a good map.
Losing a Harry was a mini target, I only needed to drop 6lbs to meet it. Have I arrived at my final destination as the SatNav would say? No way, I still have more short, medium and long term goals to keep me going.
If you have ever driven to Cornwall, I bet the first time when you came off the M5 at Exeter you thought I’m almost there? Only to then realise you were wrong and that there was still miles to go. I drive from Sandy to Southampton on a regular basis and have those little points on my journey. When I get to the Heathrow I’m about halfway, when I get to Fleet it should be 35 minutes, then Winchester 10-15. They all help me keep my focus when driving, so why not do it when losing weight?
When I was thinking about this blog and “losing a Harry” I have no idea why, but I started to think about songs that describe a weight loss journey, so what do you think about my playlist of music that could be linked to weight loss:
- He ain’t heavy, He’s my Brother – The Hollies
- Food Glorious Food – Oliver Twist
- The Fast Food Song – Fast Food Rockers
- Chocolate – Snow Patrol
- Cake by the Ocean – DNCE
- Food for thought – UB40
- It’s Time – Imagine Dragons
- Start me up – The Rolling Stones
- Salad Days – Mac DeMarco
- Pinball Wizard – The Who
- Banana Pancakes – Jack Johnson
- The Long and winding road – The Beatles
- Don’t you worry about a thing – Stevie Wonder
- Let’s Get Physical – Olivia Newton John
- Everything changed but you – Take That
- Fix You – Coldplay
- Light as a Feather – Norah Jones
So what next, well I’m going to put my Harry Badge on the achievement walls and move on to the next one, which is just 21lbs away.
Short term is to reach 10 stone.
Medium term is to get to my lowest WW from 2003.
Long term is the aspirational target to lose enough to be able to change my anticoagulant medication.
What are your milestones? Do you have any?
Why not share yours in the comments, or maybe give me ideas of song that would be on your Weight Loss Playlist.
Thanks for reading.
Cooking by Matt 