on changing your lfie

Well this is a hard one to write changing your life.

 

I am a fine one to talk about this one, I am the worlds worst for say "I'm going to change my life" yet I never do, that is until now.

 

Over the summer I drank how should I say it "A bit to much" and put on quite a lot of weight and ballooned to 21st 7lbs, I realised this is not good for me so something had to give.

 

So I was set a challenge by a good friend to lose 3 stone by the beginning of the next Cricket season in May so I have risen to the Challenge and have taken it on.

 

In my first week I lost 3lbs in weight just by cutting out Beer, you see I would drink a very lot, 5 pints on a Monday, 5 Pints on a Thursday and Saturday and Sunday take your pick how much I would drink, along with this I would have curry and chips or a kebab on the way home, so the weight pilled on.

 

I have also started to exercise, exercise me you must be joking, well I have been and it has been a struggle let me tell you, I have downloaded an app on to my phone called couch 2 5K and it is brilliant, if I am unable to get over the cricket ground to do it, I will use my V-Fit stepper, I feel so much better for doing it.

 

When I lost my Job, Just over 12 months ago all my confidence went and I was close to taking my own life, but then a friend of mine by the name of John Gee, got in touch with me as he was the captain of Barry Athletic Cricket Club and they were looking for someone to do the score book for them, I decided to go and give it a try and have never looked back since, I have had a new lease of life so to say, I am now the Secretary at The Club for their 125th Year in 2015 and it is keeping me busy, my confidence is still very fragile at times and I still get those feeling of what is life worth but not that many anymore, they are becoming more and more frequent.

 

I have also in the last year have done a few things I have wanted to do for many years, in July 2013 I visited the Giants Causeway, something I have been aiming to do for over 20 years and had it planned for my 40th Birthday, but a few things happened and it never happened, I have also been to St. Patricks day in Dublin.

 

I have many over things I want to do, Score a 50, take 5 wickets, have more children, do the Cardiff Half Marathon, The London Marathon, be the best person I can be.

 

I look back now at my life and think where has it all gone, that I missed out on so much, but now since I have been doing this weight loss Challenge and exercising more, I can look forward to my future with some enthusiasm and delight at what it can bring me, losing weight and exercising is just the start of it, a new job or maybe start my own business, who knows what it will bring all I do know is I will be strong and take anything that comes my way.

 

"Success is not final

failure is not fatal

it is the courage to

continue that Counts"

 

"Failure is not about falling down, failure is staying down"