A new you?? A new me?? I don't know... but a new someone is waiting and I look forward to meeting them.

So. This is the primary post on my quest to lose about 4 stone. In the following weeks, I shall be posting my various happy moments, the pounds lost, the first stone, the hell that my friend Sam is about to put me through, my strength  and the various gains and losses I will have. So much of my confidence is locked up in my body image, and for the last few years, I have been horrendously abusive to myself. It's time to take charge. To fight the demons. To love myself, because (to quote a favourite lady of mine) 'If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love some body else?'

I am the sort that feeds off of words of encouragement, so, if you stumble across my tiny blog, please feel free to post words of love, and reassurance. I might share recipes and exercises I like. I'll definitely be posting pictures my body and the just so I can see the various changes it's going through. I will be comparing them and so on, which might be rough for me, so forgive me if I get a little emotional at times. I have so much anger about what I see in pictures, and the mirror. I hate it. I want to stop tearing myself apart as it has proved tof be incredibly damaging to my relationships. Anyway... I am signing off for now, but I'll be back so et me after my first PT session with Sam.