Happy New Year!

Hello! Welcome to  my first ever blog. 

This is a little scary. *takes deep breath*

Where to begin? I'm Vicky, I'm 23 years old. I work full time in a customer service role, which I really enjoy. I like making excuses to shop, playing Call of Duty, running, and watching trashy German TV. I speak German, and would love to travel and see more of the world (and learn Spanish). This blog is going to be like a public diary for me and my weight loss journey, a way to track my own progress, and be a little more expressive. I guess you could say I'm not really sure I want people to read this (and I can't guarantee there'll ever be anything worth reading) But I feel like this is going to be a good year. Things are going to change for the better.   

One day in around 2012, I looked at myself, and realised that things had to change. I had to stop buying clothes which were too small for me, thinking that one day I'd get into them. I had to stop taking late night trips to Asda to buy cakes and chocolate, and I had to get back into exercising. 

One good thing is I can lose weight. I'm not your typical morbidly obese twenty something. I like exercise, I love fruit & veg. I'm just lazy, and very much a lovely of all things sugary. The yoyo dieting went on for some time, losing and gaining weight. 

In March of 2013 I went to visit some friends in St. Andrews. While there, we got onto the topic of losing weight, and my friend mentioned how she's been running for about a year, and loves it. She told me about the NHS Choices Couch 2 5K programme, a set of podcasts to teach you how to run 5k. 

I took the challenge on, and found that running is right up my street. I loved it! Every week I would do a little better, and even though it exhausted me, I could feel myself getting fitter, and I was so proud! That combined with healthy eating was my plan of attack. And guess what? It worked!


By October of 2013 I had lost 3 and a half stone. Whoop whoop, right? Sort of. 

Since then, I've sort of been a yo yo dieter. I am still around 2 and a half stone lighter than I was this time last year, but I should have done so much better. And now is the time to change! Again!

I'm starting a 6 week 'body transformation programme' whereby you follow a nutrition plan, and take part in 3 classes a week. After a running injury at the beginning of December, I haven't been running for around 4 weeks, however I hope to have a decent enough knee to start again tomorrow (wish me luck!)

I want to document this 6 week journey, but then also continue to keep track on how it's going. 

Finger's crossed that I'll be dropping by soon with some more updates. (and some pretty pictures)

Bye For now :)