My Progress

I am a first time poster and this year I've decided to make some changes but unfortunately I only found this web site a week ago - but the changes have started to be felt and show already.

Some background of me, 35 year old male, who works in IT so spends 99% of the working day behind a desk, only drink rarely (i.e. at parties, bbq's and the odd one when I go to watch football).

I quit smoking at the beginning of this year, went from 20 a day to nothing after one hypnotherapy session, I started to understand why I smoked and that I could quit fairly easily, mainly because I had the motivation to finally change my life. Anyone who wants to quit and thinks they can't you can, just remember that you are not addicted to nicotine, you are tied into a habit, break the habit and the rest is fairly straight forward.

To keep my motivation for quitting smoking other than the kids was to put £50 a week in a pot, and not spend it but see it grow, this week there was £1,750 in there, plus I got the "Since iQuit" app for my phone to track how long I've not had a smoke (35 weeks) for and how many cigarettes (nearly 5,000) I haven't smoked. So, if I ever feel like having a cigarette (I do get urges), I just look at the app on the phone and realise, one cigarette is not worth blowing all this hard work for.

So I started going to the gym, putting in 90 minutes 4 times a week and my weight didn't change much from the 15st 7lb's I was at - there were fluctuations of course of going up and down a few pounds at a time, I could see body shape changes but the belly was still there.

But after being on holiday this year and not liking seeing myself, I decided it was time to really push, hence finding this website, and now using the 30 Day Shred plus putting in the effort in at the swimming pool, in the last week (well since Monday) I have lost over 5lbs (2.4kg) in weight. I am now under 15st for the first time in as long as I can remember. Today has been a major breakthrough in my weigh-in, and is helping me motivate more to get this down further, my long term target is 85kg (13st 7lb).

I know the weight loss won't continue at this rate for very long when it starts to plateau out, but if I keep getting fitter I will be pleased.

Sometimes we all need some motivation, and hopefully this will help others to realise they can do it too and they can make progress, I've found some of the other posts on here hugely motivational so thank you very much.