Run Fat Girl, Run!

The Beginning

There's a lot more to life than how fat or thin you are.
-Kirstie Alley

New Year’s Resolution 2. Enjoy a healthier, active lifestyle

I genuinely believe I was born fat, literally I weighed 10 pounds when I was born. When I say I was born fat I don't mean I have one of those new genes that have become popular recently and keep appearing within the news. No what I mean is I've always had an appetite so much so that when I was younger, my dad would refer to me as Rolly, the fat puppy from 101 Dalmatians, because I would utter his catchphrase "I am hungry mama" a little too often.  

My urge to eat everything in sight and my natural lazy has meant I’m fat. Not morbidly obese just fat, although my BMI says I am clinically obese (a point I'm going to skim over for the moment). I'm not fat enough to star in a channel 5 documentary yet, but if I carry on like this I may feature in a national newspaper with the headline ‘Young girl eats small pet by accident after mistaking it for a snack’. While the photo will be me looking like a beached whale slumped against the fridge, which is tilting slightly under my weight. I don’t want people to have to lock away their small pets in fear of me running out of crisps and bread.

Unfortunately, the weight I am is what I call the middle ground. One of those girls who is too fat to be called ‘curvy’, but small enough not to be stared at in the street. I'm of a weight where doctors are no help and I am basically left to deal with it on my own. Which in a way I suppose is good, the lack of surgery and general concern about my weight means I'm not in the pet eating stage yet. It leaves me only one option, and it's not the easiest one, eat healthier and exercise.

Now I have nothing against people who are overweight, I really don’t, this is a personal issue for me. If I’m truly honest its not all about my weight its more about being unfit, I hate that at my age, I can’t run up a flight of stairs like I should be able to. So this part of the blog is going to focus on writing about my progress and everything related to that.

Wish me luck!