Holy heck, time is getting away from me!

In my last blog I was suprised that I hadn't posed an entry for a fortnight...... this time, it's been a month!

It's seriously weird to think how long I've gone without eating food already, how much time is left, and how soon I'm going to be at goal! Scary! But also very very coooool


Inspired by SlendaBlenda, this blog is partly going to be reflection on the year gone by, as after all, we are so so so close to 2009 at this point! Barely seems a day since the "new millenium" was rolled in with our street party and fireworks, but hey hey, life rolls ever forward at increasing speeds it seems!


So, what has happened in the past 12 months? Well, of course, LL is the biggest thing I've achieved this year (well, perhaps a close second, but we'll come onto that later...)
but I've also prompted myself to look at other areas of my life as well, such as achievements at work, that I've always found hard to do.

But after some real digging, I've realised just how much I have really done in 2008, and funnily enough, how much of it has happened since losing weight! Strange that co-incidence, eh?

Off the top of my head, this year has seen me;

• move house,
• make so many new friends,
• re-establish old friendships,
• travel,
• party,
• learn new skills
• brush up on old ones,
• really get back into playing guitar,
• broaden my creativity and (for the first time in ages) write new songs,
• make leaps and bounds in my job and establish myself as an integral part of the school instead of just being the neccassary "IT guy",
• begin to like myself a bit more,
• enjoy seeing photo's of myself,
• open up and talk about things I never would have before,
• generally feel like life is now worth living and not just 'existing' through

It's such an amazing thing to have changed so much in 3 months that I can barely even comprehend it; all I know is, LighterLife will always be the way that I got my life back on track, according to my rules and with my firmly in the driving seat, and I will always love it for giving me the chance to prove that to myself


Now, not least of the things that I love about the new me is my confidence, and whoa, where did it come from?!??!! On occasion it's like watching myself from accross the room... I can't believe that it's ME doing these things.

the most prominent case of this, of course, occured just the other night, when I got to asking a lovely lady friend of mine for a dance, sweeping her off her feet (literally!) and proceeding to have the greatest dancefloor experience of my life, as well as a nice conversation/slow walk home with her, and the most wonderful kiss of my life

and the best part was, not once did I ever have thoughts along the lines of "I must look so dumb dancing here", or a bad thought about my size, or anything like that. I just felt normal. ME! normal! I never imagined such a thing! I'm still grinning about it now!

Christmas has been great as well, so many friends and family members giving me lovely strokes, being able to resist all the food around me, observing the behaviour and how changed I really am already through something as simple as sitting at the dinner table during the Xmas meal... everything about it has been a learning curve, and the learning has been a wonderful experience.


I can't wait to get stuck into 2009, I know it's going to be the best year of my life so far, and best of all I know that it's all thanks to me. I did it, no-one else.



2008 will be remembered as the year I took control of my life.

2009 will be the year I keep it.