Enough is enough

Hello and welcome to Road to Redemption.

It's New Years Day 2011 and I've decided that enough is enough. While I've never been one for resolutions, I think the time has come to acknowledge the elephant in the room.

I'm fat. Yep I'm bloody fat and bloody sick of it. No more lies, no more excuses I'm going to bloody well do something about it.

AND YOU! The wonderful inhabitants of the cyberspace dimension are going to help me (I hope).

But how can I help I hear you ask?

Well nothing could be simpler, just read, yep that's it just read. Of course feel free to comment if you like but that's completely up to you. You see, I'm the sort of bloke that needs to be held to account. Without someone looking over my shoulder asking if I really need that Mars bar I tend to take the easy option.

So who wants to read another boring blog about salad and bloody spin classes. Not me. I agree, that's boring as bat shit! So this blog will not be about what I ate for breakfast or what exercise I did last week but about the day to day struggles of a fat man and the emotional roller coaster that is 'Weight Loss'.

There will be the odd reference to food and/or exercise if it's relevant to the day's events but I hope to take you on what I think should be an interesting journey full of challenges and hopefully success.

I'll do my best to post daily but understanding the challenge that this presents I'll promise to post a minimum of three times weekly until Jan 1, 2011.

So that everyone understands the challenge I've set myself here are the stats:

Current Weight: 133kg
Highest weight: 137kg
Goal Weight: 81kg (top end BMI for my height)

So here's the deal in a nutshell. I'm giving myself 52 weeks to lose 52kg. That's a kilo a week for those that failed grade two maths. I'll add in gut measurements soon just to make sure I completely humiliate myself.

Bring it on.