Well, I thought I would have a crack at this blogging lark and see what its all about! I've kind of fell into it by accident, as I wanted to post on another blog for my Weight Watchers Biggest Loser Challenge, but to do so, I needed to create a blog account. So I thought, "What the heck, lets see what I can get out of a blog!".

I guess my main aim in creating a blog is to create a story about my day-to-day weight loss struggles and achievements! My weight loss story so far has been very up and down. I have always been "chubby" in my living memory. When I was five, I broke my leg jumping on our backyard trampoline, and my parents said it was from then that I started to carry around some extra weight having to sit around a lot with a full leg cast for 6 weeks. And I have always loved food, so throughout my life I have gradually put on a few kg extra every year.

Breaking point for me was when I travelled to the UK on a working holiday and piled on an extra 6kg over 6 month period due to homesickness and wanting to warm myself up with food. So I joined Weight Watchers at Home in the UK when they introduced the No Count program as I was never interested in counting the points of everything I ate! I really couldn't be bothered! That was in February 05- on the program I then went from 102kg to 88.5kg in July 05.

I then came back to Australia with my English boyfriend, and proceeded to put back on 7.5kg, so went back up to 96kg. So I bought the WW Aus/NZ guides, so I could try and do the No Count program here off my own bat. Since February this year, I have lost that weight gain and some, and currently weigh 80.5kg.

The biggest help in my weight loss in Aus has been doing classes at my gym and reading the WW message boards. I am currently doing two challenges on the message boards: the Littlepiggynomore 10kg for Christmas Challenge (lost 3.5kg for that so far) and this week joined the Biggest Loser Challenge (as mentioned above!). My goal is to reach 68kg, and for the first time it is starting to look achievable!