For the past eleven months I have been going to the gym. My wife and I started at the gym because my wife decided that she wanted to get fitter and lose some weight. I started because I wanted to give moral support to my wife. That is not to say I wasn't fat. At 105 kg (I think about 231 pounds) I didn't think I was fat. For me the fat was evenly distributed. But looking back I was fat.

Today when I weighed myself after my workout I weighed in at 96kg (211 pounds). I remember back in 1997 I told someone my weight had reached 96 kg and they told me I was a bit portly. Ever since then my weight slowly went up. So I haven't been this weight for thirteen years. That of course is not counting when I first moved to Thailand and suffered almost weekly bouts of food poisoning. At that time the toilet and I became very well aquainted and I dropped down to 95kg, but that doesn't count.

I'm hoping with more hard work I can get my weight down to about 90kg, but that will be in about a years time, I'm hoping.

So I just wanted to share my good news with you all.