Archive for November, 2008

Well I am getting closer to kicking off the biggest change in my life, losing 50+ kilograms of weight in the coming 12 months, and I’ll be inviting you to come along for the ride, to cajole, support and help me achieve my goals and importantly sponsor me for the benefit of the Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute. Just a couple of dollars a kilo from everyone who visits the blog will keep me motivated and go some way to the important research that the Baker IDI do.

I haven’t always been a large guy, although most of you who know me these days wouldn’t know what an 85 kilo Longie would look like, and you probably couldn’t imagine it either, I struggle with it.

I can’t imagine waking up and feeling fresh and bright, light on my feet, alert and ready to go. Putting on clothes and feeling fantastic about the way I look, not worrying that every little creak in the body isn’t a telltale of something more grave.

I have been thinking about this for a long time, and figured that if I was going to do this for myself I need to reach out for support instead of isolating myself and continuing the current pattern. I also figured that doing something for the good of others, just may bring some good back the other way. We all know doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome is madness, I’ve been mad for too long.

This will be my story, my journey, my way.

I don’t believe in fad diets, in corporate weigh loss plans, in daily fiteness instructors acting like drill sargent’s – they can all bugger off. I’ll keep this subject for a day when I am moody.

The issues at hand are psychological as well as physical. When we can’t do something it’s often because we don’t know how to do it. Often it is a skill gap, not knowing what we don’t know, or in my case now knowing what I don’t know and taking steps to fill the skill gap and affect substantial change to my life and wellbeing in the process, and the lives of those around me.

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