Lets start at the beginning...

After 4 years of working, living and partying in London, I was chubby, lonely and bored. A good friend and travel buddy had recently moved back to New Zealand, all of my workmates lived north of the Thames (I was living south) and as happens to many living over there, I had put on some weight (Heathrow injection times 10) and I was unfit from too many cold winter nights spent on the couch or warm summer nights spent at the pub. So I decided to start a new sport, with the aim to lose some weight get fit and hopefully make some new friends. So I started a kickboxing class, a class which was destined to change my life.
The class was great fun, (I didn't realize how much fun kicking and punching things could be!) and after a few weeks I was finding the workouts easier and I had made some wonderful new friends. One day, Mel, the senior instructor suggested I might like to go with her and some mates to a local gym where you could do some boxing training for the bargain price of 2 pounds.
When we walked through the doors on that first night, the first person we saw was a very tall (6ft4) Nigerian man with a loud voice, piercing eyes and long dreadlocks. He was Franklin, a professional heavyweight boxer and former IBF African champion and he provided some of the most fun, most intense and fantastically addictive exercise programs my friends and I had ever done. He was also to become the love of my life.
To cut a very long story short...which I'm sure I will expand upon as time goes by...after 6 months of training with Franklin I was looking and feeling fabulous, I was strong, fit, healthy and at the lowest weight I had been for many years.  Now, fast forward 2 years and we're a far cry from where we were, we now live in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, married with 2 kids (my step daughter who's 12 and our daughter who is 7 months) I'm carrying considerable post pregnancy weight and am terribly unfit with considerably less time on my hands.  Hence I have decided to create this blog (ahh now we're getting somewhere!) to document my road back to fitness, a healthy weight, strength and my size 14 jeans!
So with the help of Franklin, and (hopefully) the inspiration of a few readers I'm going to get back in shape. Who else out there is trying to get fit and back into some much loved but currently far too tight clothes? Tomorrow its time to set some goals and to step onto those scales!