GOAL baby…
I reached my goal weight of 74kg in March 2011 –
exactly 6 years after Logan was born.
exactly 6 years after Logan was born.
A total of almost 40kg gone…
At the beginning of 2011 I set myself 3 goals.
I wrote my goals in a small notebook that I carried in my
handbag – I could see it every time I went to get my wallet or my keys from my
bag…
Those goals were:
Enter the Weight Watchers Healthy Life Awards
Run 5k in less than 30mins
Be a sixties girl (weight less than 70kg)
I qualified to enter the Healthy Life Awards (HLA) when I reached
my goal weight on 21st March 2011.
My weight loss journey had changed my life & my hope was to be
able to inspire others to join this life changing adventure.
As I sat down to answer the application questions I was faced with
the realisation that I had never told this story before & I wasn’t actually
sure if I wanted to.
My story was not just about having lost 40 kilos…it wasn’t that simple.
My story was about an overweight five year old girl, an overweight teenager & a woman who had spent her 20s & her 30s battling her weight – a woman who had spent most of her life on a hideous weight loss/weight gain rollercoaster ride.
I was going to have to bare it all, I was going to have to
be honest & tell the whole, raw story!
I was going to have to reflect on
some very dark times & I just wasn’t sure if I was ready for that!
Yes, I’d lost 40 kilos but hadn’t I lost weight in the past?
Hadn’t I lost 15, 20 & even 25kg before…only to put it all
back on again (& some!).
So, why would it be any different this time?
Why would it be any different this time?
Why would it be any different this time?
This question filled my mind & as I began filling in the
entry form I still wasn’t certain that it WOULDN’T be different this
time...
…but I did know that I was a hell of
a lot closer to being ‘there’ than I had ever been in my life!
I knew with all my heart, with all my soul, with all my being that
this HAD to be the last time!
I didn’t think that I could do it again - I just couldn’t…
Until next time,
Toni x