Day 1

Blimey, feels strange being back in the blogging world again. It's been a long time!

Anyway, if you're here it means you'll have a vague notion of what I'm doing. I've put on well over a stone in the last few months and for various reasons (which I'll go into later this week) it has to go. I know that I don't always stick to the 'doing it for myself' theory so this time I'm doing it for someone else, my son. It's very easy to ignore the reasons for doing it when you only have yourself to answer to, but when you have to look your child in the eye...whole different story.

When I say I'm doing it for Xander I'm actually raising money for a charity that has funded him over the last 6 months to enable him to join in regular out of school sports clubs, Scope. Here's Xan on his first day at football camp:

Scope rely on charitable donations so if I can pay them back a little by raising money then that'd be great.

So, today is day 1. After the mince pie-athon that was Christmas it seems like a good place to start. I've been weighed this morning (not pretty!) and have taken a time stamped photo of the scales. Not quite ready to share that picture yet but I am going to be brave and share the before pictures that Emily took today:

These jeans were my favourite when I was at my target weight a couple of years ago. They really hurt when I took this pic! As you can see, the problem areas are ones that aren't very good for people like me with cardiac issues so this needs sorting!

So, if you would like to sponsor me there should be a link on the right to my Just Giving page. Whether you do it per lb or for hitting the target is up to you, I'm just grateful for any help you can give.

I'm going to update the blog daily this week with different aspects of this whole challenge then will be posting my progress weekly.

Thanks in advance if you can help. X