As with everything...it started with a girl.......NO. Actually, it didn't.
A couple of friends decided to stop drinking for a few weeks, and it just so happened that I was working away with them at that time, so joined in (without really meaning to). I should probably make it clear that my lifestyle had slightly changed prior to this, but I'll cover that with another historical post at a later date, as it's not hugely different at that stage.
At this same time as this 'dry' period was going on, I was having some, shall we say, gastric issues. Essentially my stomach hurt, a lot, and I was regularly vomiting in the mornings (something which had been going on regularly for probably 15 years, but I was at this point in a "regular" phase).
Through this, I was trying to stay off any "heavy" food, and ended up eating different varieties of salads and water, with the occasional J2O.
Guess what? I not only felt better, but I also lost a little bit of weight. Nothing noticeable, but enough for me to know about it, and enough to set the foundations for what was to happen in November 2010, when I was on Holiday in Florida and lost my appetite completely, but not only this, on or around the 18th Nov (I can't work out the exact date!), three of our travelling party decided to go out for a jog near our Villa. This jog would have been around 600m from door to door, and I have to say, while I never let on at the time, but with it being fairly obvious, I was pretty distraught and embarrassed at not even being able to make it to the end of the street, 150m).
This was the trigger, and while it took me some time after returning, it will always be the moment I decided to work on my fitness, and lifestyle.
I think everyone, in some way or another, always needs a little push.
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