The pressure is on

We had our monthly staff meeting today. Horribly enough, I was discussed at length. My sponsored weight loss seems to have caught the imagination of the entire workforce, and if I succeed in losing my target 3 stone in 3 months I’ll raise over £400 for charity!
Panic-stricken, I sat and did some figures. Taking April 1st as my start date (it seemed the right thing to say at the meeting – ‘so it’s easy to keep track of where I am… and in case anyone hasn’t sponsored me yet’) I’ll have 92 days in which to lose 42 lbs, or just over 19 kilos in old money. That’s one kilogram every 4.8 days, or an average daily drop of 7.4 ounces. I’m not trying to blind you with statistics, its just that I’ve sat and worked it out every possible way I can, and whichever measurements and equations I use I end up thinking I’ve made a horrible, horrible mistake and (ironically in the circumstances) bitten off more than I can chew. I wish I’d signed up for a sponsored silence, or gluttony.
I desperately searched the internet for a quick-fix weight loss pill but it seems there isn’t one.. Well, not one backed by appropriate research and a valid licence anyroad.. It turns out the ‘sensible’ thing to do is exercise much more, and eat much less, but that goes against everything I believe and enjoy as a human being.
It’s gonna be a loooooong 3 months.

RC 27-3-09
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