Decisions.

Ok, so let me tell you a little bit about why I'm writing this blog. Maybe it'll explain to me why I'm doing this too!

I was vegging out on the sofa the other night, flicking randomly through the tv channels and I stopped on a repeat of Biggest Loser USA. They were doing a weigh in and had lost a combined total of 155lbs. Now, being English, we work in stones and pounds so I had to do some maths.... it didn't go well. I thought, ooh thats gotta be at least me. And about a year ago, it was.
As I watched these rather large people do their challenges - and eat cupcakes - I thought, oooh cupcakes.

They then appeared in the gym and I realised why it is that I didn't watch this show on a more regular basis. Jillian Michaels. She is the devil incarnate. For a while I was convinced that she might just be possessed by some exercise obsessed minor demon. The more I watched, the more I started to think that she probably had some issues of her own but liked torturing people anyway.

When that show finished, another began; Losing It With Jillian. I thought; 'well yeah, I could see how you could lose it with her pretty easily.' It was while watching this that I changed my mind and realised she seems to be a pretty nice person and while in a gym situation, she may still be possessed, outside a gym, she seems pretty cool.
During the commercials, I decided to go and check if the folks on Biggest Loser had actually lose the equivalent of me. This was my first bad idea.

I got on my bathroom scales and almost had me a heart attack. I'm the heaviest I've ever been!! And I'm not pleased by this. I told myself that if I ever got over 12 stone (168lbs) that I would have my arse thoroughly beaten - and not in the good way!

Who better to beat your arse than the devil??

So I headed off to a well known online retailer and spent about 45 minutes trying to decide which dvd I need to buy. Having already decided that Jillian would be the one to torture me, on the grounds that her work outs seem tough but not too tricky, rather than any other celeb who seems to prance around in lycra while an actual professional tells you what to do, to the sounds of some electro 80s shite; I now had to work out which dvd I needed.

In the end, I thought Ripped in 30 and 6 week 6 pack would be good. After much debate with a friend, I decided that I would only do one and then if I actually followed through with that, I'd get the other.
So I sent in my order and then all I had to do was wait........