Before I start this weeks journal I would just like to wish Sally all the best of luck with InDenialhealth.com. I can certainly relate to the denial thing and I have had my head in the sand far too long now. I definitely do not want my journey to health, fitness and of course happiness and a long life to be a ‘flash in the pan affair’ I have made a commitment for life and a change for the better. Sites like this are really motivating. Knowledge is power and if we all share our knowledge we will all become very powerful in achieving our goals in life so good on ya Sal keep up the great work.

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So I had lost 2 kilos and I guess that tiny start was the major motivation I needed to keep going. A Week later I hopped on the scales and had lost another kilo and a week later another kilo.

The encouragement I got from my friends and family was fantastic. I started to see people who hadn’t seen me for a while and they all noticed that I had lost weight. One friend of mine who I hadn’t seen for about 6 weeks was overjoyed – it suddenly dawned on me – all of my friends had been secretly worried about me, noticing the weight gain and how unfit I had become.

My friend gave me some magazines on fitness to read and I went home and read the motivational stories of people who had lost 100’s of kilos some of them had taken 5 years to get to their goal weight. There was also some great tips on different ways to exercise.

I have set myself a goal of losing my weight in one year which is approximately 1 kilo a week for the next year give or take a few bad weeks. Don’t get me wrong, I have had my off days recently, I have felt hungry and there have been days when that gym was more like a torture chamber than a pleasurable, fun experience.

I not only started to feel better physically but I realised I had started to laugh again. I started to feel stronger in myself and my confidence was growing by the day. I had been bored in my dull routine job for a while and decided to have a look for another job.

I applied for a few jobs and got a phone call that week asking me to come in for an interview. I was over the moon but, what was I going to wear….. that same old dread came over me again. The thought of going clothes shopping filled me with horror all that trying on clothes that didn’t fit or if they did fit I looked like a sack of potatoes………….

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