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Hello there everyone, and welcome to my blog (hats off to 'Blogging for Dummies' for teaching this dummy how to....you know!).

I am overweight; make that very overweight. I think the technical term is 'morbidly obese'....ouch! Over the last few years I have had a few health warning shots, enough to make me realise that although there is nothing going on with my health that can't be reversed; my time is running out to do something about it before something really bad happens.

So this is my journey to health, and the plan is an ambitious one. I want to lose weight, and I want to get fitter; fit enough to run the Manchester 10k in May of 2012, fit enough to run a half marathon towards the end of 2012, and then fit enough to run the London Marathon in 2013, where the blogging journey will end at the finish line down the Mall.

I write this in the hope that the words and thoughts of both myself and readers can inspire me when the journey gets difficult, then hopefully people can be inspired by my story; believing that the most difficult journey is possible.

I make a promise to you that I will be honest - if the wheels fall off and I have six pizzas in two days, I will come clean - and I will do my very best. Share it with me.

......Wish me luck!!

Thursday, 28 March 2013

24 days to go.....Location Location Location

Pop quiz hotshot……what do the following have in common……?

·         My bedroom
·         My front room
·         The office where I worked (Arkoni)
·         The office where I work (Propak)
·         My hotel room in Stevenage

 This far this has been an exhaustive list of the places where I have written my blog……until now…..as there is one more to add to the list……..

·         Norton Canes service station on the M6 toll

 It’s the big, pre-Easter holiday rush, and with both matrix signs and traffic reports warning of nasty things further north I have decided to spend some quality time with my laptop and a Costa Coffee Red Berry cooler (one of my five a day…….so let me see….so far today, that makes – carry the one, add the remainder – one!).

It’s quite a pleasant experience actually. I’m well over half way home, there are lots of people to watch, and I have the most wonderful thing of all……..time! I know that if I made it all the way home I would just flick on the sofa and flop on the telly; but being here, I can read, I can relax, and I can write! I now realise why J K Rowling herself chose to begin writing those whatsisface books (trying to sound like he doesn’t really know much about them, and didn’t actually queue outside Waterstones at midnight……….for the last three in the series) in a café.

 So far it’s been a good week; I think I have done well, but I had a visit from the NSPCCC last night (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Custard Creams). Rather than face a jail sentence, I had to finish them off……

 …..you’re not buying that are you…..?

Okay, I have not been an absolute, bona fide, true blue – white? – saint; but by comparison to previous weeks I have done SO much better. If I can get out for a quickie run tomorrow night too, then that means eating better combined with a three-run week; I’ve not managed anything like that for quite a while. I confess I will be expecting a good weight loss tomorrow night; hope I’m not setting myself up for a fall.

 Out and about delivering sweepstakes invitations tomorrow; deep joy…….

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