First Steps.

On December 25th 2002 I jumped on the scales and they finally went below 100kg...99.8 to be exact.

I remember that moment as I was so excited...I had been trying for this since May that year when I weighed in at 124.5kg. My partner at the time was in the room and I said to him "I have lost 24.7kg". His answer was "Bullshit, doesn't look like it".

That moment marked the beginning of the end of our relationship...even though it took another few years before I was finally free of him.

The last few years have been horrible (it's the only way to describe them). I have had my youngest son (L) in trouble with the law almost constantly, lost a job for reasons which have never been explained to me and had massive financial problems. To top it all off my middle son (D 19 years old) passed away suddenly and unexpectedly in January this year. He just went to sleep one day and never woke up.

I never stood on the scales again after that Christmas Day in 2002 until early July this year and was horrified with the result...144kg. All that weight I had worked so hard to lose back in 2002 was back plus more.

I thought about going this alone again...but after hunting on the web I thought that I would try weight watchers and see how it went. I had joined WW somewhere in the past but had no success...I was losing 100gm a week, constantly hungry and paying alot of money to attend meetings that quite frankly bored me to tears. At 100gm a week it was going to take over 2 months to lose a kilo!!

WW online seems to be the go for me and I am loving the pro point system. Maybe my whole journey will not involve WW but I think it's a good starting point and so far I have lost 6.5kg in 4 weeks.

My aim at the moment is to be at 124kg by Christmas Day this year...that will be 20kg lost and just a little lower than I was when I started my weightloss all those years ago. By Christmas Day 2012 I will be under 100kg...I am determined.