Why this Blog Exists

Back in 2014,i was overweight,REALLY OVERWEIGHT,i weighed in at 20st 11lbs,i was getting pains in my legs and arms when i got up,and felt crap most of the time(even though i was my happy go lucky self on the outside),and when i felt crap mood wise i tended to turn to food as a way to cope and deal with the crap,which was a hiding to nothing and was in itself a vicious circle.
         Around early 2014 my father was rushed into hospital with a small heart attack and when i saw him there on the night,as weak as a kitten and not this man who i respected and admired and had looked up to for 34 years i believe that night something started turning in my mind(although it would take a few more weeks after to finally kick in),so early April 2014 i woke up and thought to myself "Right Enough is enough,do i really want to end up the same way,and have my son and wife see me in that way",and decided that moment it was a crossroads,either i stayed the way i was or i make that positive change and do something about it because it was only me that could change myself.
         From that moment on i ate less and moved more(weirdly around that time my mother changed jobs and wanted me to walk with her to the Bus Station as she felt unconfortable doing it on her own) i walked on average 10-11k a day and the weight started coming off in spades(4-5lbs a week on a good week,2-3lbs on a not so good one),around August 2014 me and my dad went to an Evening with Uwe Rosler at the DW Stadium in aid of Joseph's Goal and when Paul Kendrick(Joesph's dad) said they were looking for people to run the Wigan 10k on behalf of the charity,i agreed to do it,after the severity of what i had agreed to sunk in(i had not ran since i was a kid and even then i never seemed to be any good at it being this short geeky kid that was never overly into sports) add to that the fact that the 10K was around 7 weeks away i got to training.
         And strangely enough the running didnt kill me,the world didnt end,and i actually found i liked it,so by the time i came to September 2014 i felt i was ready for the challenge,so early on the 7th September 2014 i stood there alongside over 2000 people ready to do my first ever 10K,and i completed it in 1.13.51,i felt so proud that i managed to do it,and it validated everything i had done so far,making that change for the better.



       Now im here in 2015 weight at 12st 11lbs,having less than a few week ago done my second 10k and mere days away from my 3rd,and i have to say my moods are better i have no more aches and pains and more importantly having raised money for a couple of great charities so far.

Joseph's Goal