I am a forty something man who found his narrow waist and broad mind had swapped places.

My weight, however over the last four years has slowly dropped from my all time high of 19 stone (266 lbs or 121 kgs) to 16 stone 2 lbs. (226 lbs or 103 kgs).

My waist had also dropped a bit from 42″ to 40″ and on a good day I could squeeze into a 38″ waist, but I knew about it by the end of the day.

I decided for the first time in my life to loose the weight and most importantly to get fit.

I have been strong before and feel pretty strong now, I have no major health issues, but I drink coffee, like the odd whisky and I smoke cigars…. take all that into consideration and I think you would come to the same decision as I did. something has to change.

I don’t particularly like the work I’m doing at the moment but feel too tired at the end of the day/week to do too much about it, hence the need to get fit.

I’ll post my progress and any tips I hear about, if nothing else it should help to keep me motivated.