nevertoooldortoofattogetfit

 I will admit most of my life I've been plump to fat with a few brief spells of slim when the yoyo dieting has stuck for long enough to get there but never sustained.  I've never been massively active or sporty, huge boobs at 12 made it embaressing at school pe with the boys making comments and the girls being bitchy.  And truthfully I didn't like feeling that it's getting uncomfortable stage let alone the gasping for breath. This is me taken in Turkey October 2017, just a few weeks before I was diagnosed with an over active thyroid.  I was about 12 stone in this pic.   This is me taken in London 5 years later, I dont have any taken between the 2 pictures because I was so unhappy about how I looked and felt.  I wasnt at my largest here, I'd been going to the pool for months and had probably lost a stone or 2 by this.  Most of the damage was done during the 6 months after my diagnosis and I'd started taking the meds to lower my levels.  I prob...

 I've always half fancied the idea of doing one of the charity fundraiser for a month thingies when I see them on facebook but the right challenge and the right cause never quite seemed to gel until I saw the Stand Up To Cancers "sweat every day in November" challenge in aid of cancer research.  The idea is to do 30 minutes of exercise every single day in November, seems to be pretty easy but even though I try to get to a class at the gym or kickboxing every day sometimes life just gets in the way or you feel so crappy no amount of cajoling will get your arse off the sofa and into leggings ready to hit the gym.  I've looked back through my fitbit and in the last couple of years there's only been one month that I managed to exercise every day, and one of those days was literally just a 10 minute walk so this isnt going to be as easy as you would assume, specially as I have several things on over each weekend this month.  First one tomorrow is an all day workshop ab...