Getting healthy, staying healthy, loosing weight!

Where to start?

I wanted to share my journey, I know so many others are on this journey too - that is to loose weight, get fit and maintain it for life!

Cheesy, I know, but I have to start somewhere.

This is a journey I am not strong enough to travel on my own, so I have joined a weight loss organisation to help - and whilst the organisation provides the tools and knowledge it is the amazing people I have met on the message boards that have sustained me, motivated me and shown me how to have patience and how to persevere.

It all started back in November last year when I decided to enter the World Masters Games which are to be held in Sydney, October 2009. It was a very big call for at that time I was 22kg overweight - no not overweight - OBESE. I struggled along and managed to loose 2kg - By January 2009 I had still only lost 2kg.

In the last week of January 2009 I had to do something or I would not be competing. I wondered If I had set myself a goal way beyond my own capabilities (I probably have).

It was a small trigger that got me finally on the right track. I had bought a pair of motorcycle leather jeans (ebay), absolutely gorgeous, BUT they were way to tight. That was all the motivation I needed to get me started.

Over the next 9 weeks I lost a total of 7kg and now it is the first week of April 2009, I am starting to feel better and I hope look better too.

I will diarise my journey here in the hope that others can be motivated too. Over the next few weeks I'll analyse what works for me and record it too along with my favourite recipes and more.