Just to catch you up on what I’m all about:

I bought a copy of The Gabriel Method as a different way of approaching weight loss, and I blogged some of my experiences with that. Sadly, it wasn’t the answer for me. I guess my problems go brain deep, so now I’m going to have gastric banding.

That means putting a kind of muzzle on my stomach so that it gives a sort of funnel effect and the food takes a longer time to get through. I was a bit worried at first, all that great big stomach there with no food in it and just a little bit at the top, blocking things up. Wouldn’t I be tormented by hunger pangs? Nope. Turns out all those “I’ve had enough now” fullness receptors are in that top little bit of the stomach, so they’ll be going off after half a cup of food.

Gotta love that.

Yeah. This is what I look like. That’s me on my 50th birthday (November 2007)

That’s me and Beloved from long, long ago. The picture is a link to Beloved’s favourite subject: his motorbike. He’s an active member of the club and designed and built the website.

That’s Radio Boy and GF. The picture is a link to the radio station where Radio Boy is on air daily. He’s their head producer, too. Does all their ads. The website has had a bit of work done on it. By Radio Boy, of course. Hoping they’ll start doing streaming, or at least podcasts so I can listen to him. Here is a link to the other radio station where he works.

That’s Possum and BF. It’s also a link to Possum’s website where you can see her talent with artwork, costume creations, crazy blogs, and her obsession with My Little Pony.

Those are chooks (if you’re mystified by the title of this blog)

I want to lose around 50 kgs.

This is how I want to look when I’m done:

…only, um, real.

I began this blog on the 27th of February 2008

Since then I have not weighed myself, but this is my ticker:

I hope to make some sort of difference with it (towards the right hand side of the screen) before my next birthday.