Hey guys!
I feel that if you are going to get properly involved in my journey it is only fair that I share my background story with you – it’s the first step in us becoming real, lifelong friends!
All my life I have suffered with my weight – always been the ‘fat friend’. I am fortunate enough to have never been bullied because of my weight, nor has it ever got me really ‘down’. However, I always wish that I was buying my clothes size smaller (I’m not sure this will ever change!). So in the summer of 2008, I joined Slimming World for the first time. I was amazed at how much I could eat, and how relatively straight forward the plan was to follow – I got on really well, and dropped about a stone. However, when I returned to my life as a beer-guzzling, fast food-loving student in September, this rate of weight loss was difficult to maintain, and I stopped going to group, and gained most of the weight back.
This pattern continued until I graduated last year (2010) and I decided that enough was enough – I did not want to get any bigger, and returned to ‘fat club’! I started off well, but have been struggling a litte of late as I get closer and closer to my target weight!
I think the trick now is to go back to basics, and up the ante with my exercise programme – which is where you come in! Tips and motivation always welcome! (On this front, introductions to Bob Harper also very welcome!).
In time, I guess what you can come to expect from my blog is an honest, heart warming (and probably hilarious – at my expense!) story of weight loss as I search for my optimum weight, juggle commitments with the gym, and work out how I am going to stay halthy!
Until next time…
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