Hi all
Not been around for a while, but I'm back, with a vengence, determination & motivation. So what's happened you ask, well I've got nowhere this year, my healthy eating & exercise hasn't resulted in much, if any, weight loss, mainly cos I wasn't doing the exercise part of it, and then slowly, but surely, I've been adding more and more naughties to my diet, and so my weight is going back up again - what a surprise!! I was totally fed up with it all and didn't want to go back to a proper diet (i.e. counting calories, or points or whatever) and I happened to read a post on another forum (not as good as this forum of course) which has just given me the push I needed.
The post was titled "all the motivation you'll ever need", and was basically about this girls mum who was in her 80's and in hospital and the girl who had posted had said that it hit her that old age will get us all in the end and she didn't want to waste her younger years always dieting and being unhappy, she wanted to enjoy the time before it was too late (it was written much better than that!) It really hit a nerve with me, I've never been happy with my weight - for the last 11 years I've been overweight and been on a constant diet, with my weight yo-yoing up and down, but not too much in the down direction. I'm only talking about 2 to 3 stone, usually around the 2 stone mark, but I've never got back down to my pre-pregnancy weight, which is going back the 11 years. Before that, I was a bit overweight, not much, but the annoying thing is, I didn't realise or appreciate how good I looked. I remember in my 20's hitting 9½ stone and being horrified, and feeling a right fattie! If only I'd realised! 9½ stone is now my goal weight and I would be over the moon to get back down there again, but to get under 10 stone will be just fine and dandy with me.
So what I'm rambling on about is, that I've decided to STOP WASTING TIME (hence the addition to my sig below) and get on with it once and for all. I'm continuing with the healthy eating (minus the extras that have been creeping in) but realy getting going on the exercise front and to that end I've started jogging (am now so stiff I can't even walk - so not feeling too good at this moment in time!) but I jogged yesterday and this morning with my hubby, who's supporting me, even got up at 6 to go out first thing as I just won't get around to it any later in the day!
I am so determined this time, I really feel this is make or break, if I don't do it now, I probably never will. I'm 41, still relatively young, and I'd like to be slim and fit whilst I'm still young enough to enjoy it!
Phew, nuff said. Wish me luck
I've had my hair short for a while it looks a little funkier!
I have beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen. 
Yes I enjoyed it.
I have stayed the same and I need to save money this week 
Keep up the fantastic work!
now I look at those teeny size 10's and think "was I really that tiny?" 
Its definitely a self image problem with a lot of us and not just how much we weigh 
