Let's Begin...

My story, I'm sure, is very similar to many others. However help and inspiration come from many different areas and while my story may not do anything for some, it will (hopefully) give inspiration and comfort to others. For those of you out there who are still struggling with the temptations that are sitting in your pantry or your fridge, I'm hoping that this very candid blog will help you in some way.

I'm still a long way off my goal weight. I've 25 kilos to go, having already lost 5.3 kilos in six weeks so the first few blogs will be retrospective catching us up to the present day.

What I've come to realise now is that there are many tools at my disposal to help drive me, and to push me forward and keep me on track. And this time I'm going to use every single one of them because I'm not coming back here to do it again. Not this time. Not ever again.

It's never been smooth sailing for me. Inflicted with this disease we call obesity since my earliest memories as a youngster I've struggled and battled depression and insecurity and have spent the majority of my life missing out on things purely because in my own mind "I've always been too fat". It was a huge mental struggle to get my head into accepting that it was time to make the commitment to loosing weight this one last time, and I'll talk about the mental thought process I went through in another blog - it may even sound familiar to your own struggle.

I've tried three times before to loose weight, and always been successful to varying degrees, but have always fallen of the wagon. Now the phrase I like to use is 'oops I took a diversion', as opposed to allowing my diversion to cause a 'derailment'.

So let's begin my journey and if you would like to come along on this ride you are very welcome to do so....