How did i come to be here?

Well i am now 41 and presumably in the middle of a mid - life crisis, although to be fair still have all my hair and teeth and not a sports car or motorbike in sight.

As a youngster I never had a weight problem then I was a area champion swimmer and then i left school, joined the forces and all was still ok. After leaving the forces at 25 i go myself a sales job, driving around in my car eating burgers and chips and that kinda thing, very quickly i started getting heavier, ok i thought i joined the gym, my god did they do lovely muffins and flapjacks there :)

Anyway as time went on the battle continued, sometimes i was winning, sometimes i was losing until the year 2000 when in a moment of madness i bought a Gym!! seriously, just bought a Gym and thought oh dear what now. So as i had always been a bit of a boxer and martial artist i ran clubs and classes alongside running the gym, as you can imagine i got back in pretty good shape, however the gym as a business wasn't a great big earner and at the end of 2003 i had an offer to sell that i coulnt refuse, so i didn't. Well while i was training dso much at the gym i was eating really well at the same time so when i stopped training you can imagine what happened.

3 years later here i am at around 19 Stone something and thinking to myself - You fat B*d sort it out, so from tomorrow, 2007 i am embarking on a mission to get myself fit, healthy and able to see if I am wearing underpants without using mirrors and a series of ropes and pulleys!!

The purpose of this blog is to record my successes failures and feelings along they way, hopefully you might find it inspiring or annoying or amusing or whatever, if you read it and you have any feelings about it let me know, beats having no-one looking at it.

Wish me luck and join in if you wish

Happy New Year
Hippi