Hi everyone,

I’ve neglected by blog of late but have been recently inspired by a friend of mine, Jo King to blog about one of my 2012 goals, call it a New Years resolution if you like.

This Christmas, I decided that I would eat and drink anything that took my fancy, I didnt disappoint!! the downside though was that I also put on half a stone in weight which has now taken me to an uncomfortable 17 Stone. This may sound enormous to some people, not a lot to others, its all relative really however, its not a weight that I’m comfortable with frankly.

I would describe myself as reasonably fit, I’m a 2nd Dan black belt in Wado Ryu karate and working towards my black belt in kickboxing and I also teach both twice a week. I’ve always been quite fit, sometimes reasonably fit. For example, I’ve ran the London Marathon completing various 10k’s and 1/2 marathons on the way as well as walking both the Yorkshire Three Peaks and the National Three Peaks in the relevant timescales. I’ve never been what I would call ‘very fit’ sort of military fitness I would call it and at the tender age of 41 & 3/4, this is what I’m aspiring to.