In May last year the wife's sister came to stay with us for the weekend, it had been quite a while since we had seen her and she looked great, you could see she had lost a lot of weight and she said she had been following the slimfast plan.
Her weightloss inspired me to sort myself out, in my late thirties and very overweight and always had been as long as I could remember. After she went back home, we bought some digital scales and to my horror I came in at over 17st with a BMI of 37.6.
A trip to the supermarket followed and we bought powder shakes, snacks and meal replacement bars and after a week I had lost 7lbs, the guys at work gave me some stick as I expected them to but this just pushed me on.
By August I was down to 14st 7lbs and for the first time ever I was out swimming with the kids on holiday, that felt so special, my old clothes were starting to look far too big for me and I was looking at "normal" sized clothes, which seemed so strange.
Christmas came and I weighed 12st 9lbs, this was my toughest test, being off work for 10 days and with all the nice Christmas food, drink and treats in the house but in the new year to my surprise, my weight had stayed the same.
My 11st 5lbs target was now well and truly in sight and here we are coming to the end of January and at today's weigh-in I am 11st 12lbs, so I have 7lbs to go and hopefully in 3 weeks time I will be there.
My 42 inch waist is now down to a 34 and I can't ever remember being a 34 inch waist before, even as a child, chest is down from 48 to 40 and I feel great.
I will update again when I reach the target weight!