Foreword

I made the decision back in January 2012 to try and lose some weight; to try and be healthier; to try to give myself a better future.  

The story continues to this day (I Aten't Dead yet, to paraphrase Terry Pratchett's Granny Weatherwax) and has been chronicled by me in different ways, on different platforms, in different styles over the years.

This blog is an attempt to bring them all together in one cohesive whole. Or at least all together. I can't promise cohesion, but I can promise my story through essays I wrote for another (private) blog, a collection of expanded facebook statuses, photographs of places that both helped me move physically and moved me emotionally, and general chatter from my conversational meanderings around the web.

This blog, however, is not an attempt to be instructional! I have no qualifications in or pertaining to nutrition, and only know what little I've gleaned from the 'net, and from my real-life betters. I can barely bake a cake, so all recipes are thankfully not my own. I have even fewer qualifications in yoga, or strength-training, or how not to smack your face with a Wii-mote when Rhythm Boxing (although I do feel I know rather a lot about how to do the latter...).  

Forewarned is forearmed and all that!