Day 42 - Born a poor young country boy

Today marks my sixth complete week on the big change. I have to say I never expected to have done so much in such a small space of time. This week's weigh-in added another 4.6 pounds to the total and now I have lost a total of a pound over 3 stone. Amazing, I am so pleased.

I am finding renewed interest in long forgotten hobbies and pastimes (photography, walking, reading) and my energy levels as well as my weight loss has been noticed by several people a work.

I am down to the last hole on my belt, down two trousers sizes (indicating a loss of 5 inches off my waist) and feeling very proud.

Getting smaller must be making me nostalgic as I spend more time thinking of life, family and life. Maybe I am learning to love my life a little more?

This song reminds me of my youth. Not because I was born in the country, but in fact in a gritty little mining village in Durham. But it talks of the simple life, where what we are all born with is just life and beauty. When I look back to my younger days and what I did as a boy for fun; much of it involved playing outside down on the beach banks with my friends just breathing in the fresh air and running around playing games in the surrounding fields and beach (well I say beach but it was mostly gravel banks!), a one with nature and the outside. So this is a beautiful song about life and nature and mankind. I listen, remember and learn from this song.

Title: Mother nature's son
Artist: The Beatles
Album: The Beatles (White Album)
Year: 1968

Born a poor young country boy, Mother Nature's son
All day long I'm sitting singing songs for everyone.

Sit beside a mountain stream, see her waters rise
Listen to the pretty sound of music as she flies.

Find me in my field of grass, Mother Nature's son
Swaying daises sing a lazy song beneath the sun.
Mother Nature's son.