I’m Mediocre Melly
I’m 31 this year.
I am 5’4 or 163 cm talls and 5 years ago I was doing muay thai, training 5 nights a week in soccer, and going on motorbike tours. I’ve put on a total of 35 kilos in the last 5 years. Roughly 20 of it was in the last 3 years.
I currently weigh in at 100 kilos.
Why a blog?
Have you met the guy or gal who at every opportune moment sharply exhale their humble brags. I’m kinda over it. I’m completely ok with an unimpressive, unremarkable life when it comes to other people’s judgements. I’m here to say, I’d like more for myself, here are the things I’m willing to suffer for, here are my every day challenges, and here is my honest journey, the moment’s when I’m living life, the time where I crack it, and go for the cheese burger meal on my weight loss and snap at the love of my life after a morning meditation session. This is the stuff life is made of, these are all the failures before our success, and I hope other’s embrace the messiness of life with me too.
What is the purpose?
I’ve been through 2 years of grief, and illness that had made me bed bound and 1 year of recovery from sports injuries. I realized yesterday that these events over the years have slowly introduced bad habits which have reduced my livelihood and well-being.
I want to lose 45 kilos
Travel to 33 countries in the next decade (By February 2030)
Complete 37 hikes across these countries, and across the 6 continents
And document it all!
Who is Mediocre Melly
I am pretty much your average over weight white collar Auzzie. My partner says I can’t afford to rage quit my current job, so for the first time, I’m sticking it out, embracing the mundane, and using my time and effort, not on people or the 9-5, but thinking about the stuff that brings me joy, and feeds my soul.
This weight gain is most likely the reason for a uterus pollyp that has developed causing me daily nausea and pain. I’m bed ridden again, but after a brief consultation with the gyno surgeon, and some blood tests, I’ve been diagnosed with
Iron deficiency,
Vitamin D deficiency,
PCOS,
Endometriosis,
and Pre-diabetes where my body is over generating insulin and I can’t drop it without medication, healthy eating, and exercise.
We’ll be trying for kids too by the end of 2020.
Mostly, we’re Australian.
In 2017-18, the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ National Health Survey showed that two thirds (67.0%) of Australian adults were overweight or obese (12.5 million people) [1]
We’re comfortable, wealthy, and our hobbies consist of Xbinge-ing . At least, if you live in the larger cities, and are in work.
The people I talk to tell me in their late 20’s or early 30’s about the dreads of getting old, and I was there too. We look back on the last decade and ask, “what have I done with all this time?” But I encourage you to ask yourself what you’ve done with your time, no matter how much or how little time has elapsed. If you’re here now, consider how much time you’ve used to pursue things that feed your soul and energize you. I hear the comments too from the early 20’s on the dread of being young and having not achieved anything at 21. No matter which decade of life you’re in, or which one you’re about to enter, if you’re looking around and want more for yourself, I hope you’ll join me in the pursuit of the things you think are worth suffering for because we all have reasons, and sometimes its not possible to achieve our goals right away because of financial, environmental, physical, and emotional constraints we all live with but that doesn’t mean we aren’t going to keep trying. Fearlessly in pursuit, freely choosing to do the things that are going to get us there, and failing trans-figuratively so we can stop spending time on what isn’t working.
The clear picture I have in my head is that I’m exploring the world, getting amongst different cultures, and hiking in nature. This for me, is worth suffering for.
Until the next McHappy shaped challenge, xo mediocre-melly.
Chasing The Dream. 