3 months in. Progress update

Morning, just a brief history, after a summer of constant visits to the doctors and over 20 years of never giving a thought to what I eat, regular drinking at home, I decided enough was enough. I started this journey on 15th august.

To be honest I spent the first 2 weeks saying "Steve you can't do this" still to this day I can't believe what I have achieved so far!

I made dozens of changes from day 1, for example, went to 1 sugar on a coffee rather that the 2 I had had the past 30 years. Now I have non. Stopped drinking at home, could quite easily have 4 cans of lager 4 nights a week. Started getting out on my mountain bike, that had not moved out the garage for 9 years. I measured every item I eaten and exercised every day.

When I take something on like a new hobby for example I always hit it hard, I'm happy to say this has become a bit like that, I'm a bit of an obsessive.

Started off doing 3.75 mile on off rd on my mountain bike, the strange thing was I loved it, being out in the Cheshire countryside, don't get me wrong I ached all over for weeks, but steadily my fitness improved and slowly increased the distance. Today I try to do 20 mile, in fact I'm off out in an hour and that's my plan. 20 mile off rd. I can't believe I'm saying it let alone doing it.

Now 3 months in I'm loving it. I have just turned 40 and I plan to spend the second half of my life far fitter than the first half. My wife an kids bought me a new bike for my birthday. Thanks Hun!

Another driving factor in this was my family. I love them dearly and I love my life.

Since starting this I have now stopped visiting the doctors, stopped using my inhalers, feel bursting with energy and the strangest thing of all is I love it. I have made 100s of small changes to my life and everyone around me can see the results.

I still have a drink, I have the odd take away, I love to eat out with my wife along with a few beers.

This is coming from someone who was convinced they couldn't do it. I'm proof that you can! One thing I would say is that a lot of this is a mindset. If you don't want to do it you won't. You can't convince someone to do this. I know there a people on here that that lost a great deal more than me, but I'm proud, I have an internal smile no one can see, also some fantastic friends on here that help me along the way. I still have a long way to go but here's to the future! Thanks for listening. check out the profile picture, this shows what 33lb in 3 mouths looks like.

Steve