Post 1

I have always had a challenge with my weight.

It was never too much of an issue when I was younger because I was always pretty active with cycling or other sports and then I joined the Army and whilst food and booze was on tap, I had to keep fit so I could always burn it off.

Over the last 10 years or so I have worked in office based jobs and had to make more of an effort to either keep fit or control my waistline.

As I have an extremely sweet tooth and not a huge amount of will power I have found that there was always cakes for someone's birthday or chocolate being passed around at work and it was easier to say yes than no. At the same time, working fairly long hours also made it easier to say no than yes to the gym and these two things combined have led to an increasing waistline and steady increase in weight.

Being 6ft 2in tall and of a fairly large frame, it was easy to carry some of the excess but more recently I have noticed it in my fitness and health with more frequent breathlessness doing low levels of physical activity, generally low energy levels and I seem to be picking up colds and flu viruses that are going around where once upon a time I was the one that was never ill.

I have tried diets before, cut out this or that, do more exercise, eat more of this or that - it usually results in a bit of weight loss then reverting back to old habits and with that put the weight back on and a bit more on top.

I know this will be down to me and the key will be to change my relationship with food and exercise to build a different balance and routine into my life.

I am planning to continue this BLOG throughout 2012 as a diary of what I do, how I do it and what the results are.

Here goes!