What a year 2007 was, what will 2008 bring?

Where did that year go? It is amazing to think that this time last year I was sat feeling sorry for myself weighing 22 and a half stone and here I am a year later still here feeling sorry for myself....Ha ha not really I've not been happier and in a better place for years.

If someone had said to me this time last year that I'd be starting 2008 10.5 stone lighter than I'd started 2007 I would have had them committed. I never in a million years thought I'd come so far but I am so happy that I have.

I set myself 3 resolutions for 2007. To lose weight, to get fit and to give up smoking and I managed to keep these going for the whole of the year. Normally my resolutions last for 5 minutes.

My life has changed so much this year. I started it as this quiet, unconfident, shy person who was also very lonely because I hid away from friends and family as I was embarrassed at how big I'd become. Now, I'll talk to anyone. Infact it's difficult to shut me up. I've been making a real effort to catch up with old friends and it has been great. I've also starting dating again although I've not been as successful at that - a failed attempt at a relationship, a few (ok several) drunken kissed in a nightclub and a few dates hardly constitutes success does it? - I've had my fingers burnt and my confidence knocked a little on that just recently but I'm working on it.

My biggest goal for 2008 is to get to goal. I hope to have a healthy BMI by the end of February and be at my personal goal by my birthday on 4th June. Other goals include to seriously take up running - I love the gym and it has been great for the fat burn but now I want to concentrate on fitness and toning so am going to start a running program as well as going to circuit training twice a week - , and to carry on being this nicer person with a "life" because I much more prefer the more outgoing confident me to the person I used to be.

Vicky xxx