It's been how long?!

Three years or there about. Blimey that's gone quickly!

 I think about blogging a lot - usually in the car on the way to work or at the gym or whilst doing the food shopping - y'know, all of those times when you can't really do productive thing about it. I even wrote an entry the old fashioned way recently, whilst sitting by a pool on holiday using a pen and paper.....it's still in my notebook!

So this time, I've a reason to return.

Things have changed enormously in the past 3 years - I've a lovely new job after leaving the organisation I had worked for for almost 18 years, I completed my 40 for 40 challenges, my hair's different, my commute and so daily routine is different, I've joined a second gym, the weirdos i'm proud to call my friends have changed and their personal situations (getting married and divorced, some even passing away) is also different. Reassuringly though, many things remain the same!

The thing that really bugs me is that I've put on weight. I went through a period of time where I was very unhappy at some of the things going on and gradually over time I've put on a couple of stone.

There. I've said it. I sorta let myself go.

I say 'sorta' because through it all I've not stopped exercising - in fact now i probably do as much if not more than I've ever done as my shiny 'new' job commute allows me to walk for an hour everyday. It's my eating, or more specifically my love of sweets combined with a love of booze that has become unbalanced. So, enough is enough. Time to stop whinging about it and how fat I feel and embrace something new.

For the past couple of months I have been loosely following The Body Coach's methodology as shown in his books and YouTube workouts and decided before we went on holiday in August that as soon as we came back I'd bite the bullet and sign up to his tailored plan. So I did - and I'm going to update my progress and experience through my blog.

You never know, I might even get back into 'normal' (pfft - who am I kidding? I don't do normal!) blogging whilst I'm at it.

Watch this space!!