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I want to be at his 18th birthday party
I have never been the type of person that sets a multitude of goals for themselves. To be honest I have been blessed with a lovely wife, a great mum and for the last four years a fantastic son and feel that keeping them and myself save and happy is a good enough goal to get me up in the morning without setting goals and targets on how to run my life.

That said, I do now have a goal that I am working hard towards. I want to be alive to see my son's 18th birthday. His 21st would be even better and his 40th a distant dream.

This may seem like a strange goal but let me explain a little more. I am 41 years old and weigh 111 kilos standing 185cm tall. I don't like to say it but according to my BMI I am obese. I have struggled with my weight for many years and have been diagnosed as type 2 diabetic for over 5.

Add in to this high blood pressure, some depression and my own dad dying at the tender age of 54 of a heart attack and you may well begin to get a better understanding of why I don't feel that dancing at Matthew's 18th is a definate certainty!

"So what are you going to do about it?" I hear some of you say. Well I am going to change my life with a much healthier diet and exercise regime and slim down so that I give myself the best chance I can.

Actually, I have already started. Ten days ago I was 115 kilos and so I went on a 1500 calorie a day diet and swim 80 lengths a day at the local health club. This has helped me drop 5 kilos but I am still about 20 kilos away from my ideal weight and see this taking the rest of the year, and the rest of my life, to achieve with alot of pain along the way.

Its funny but since I have started on my goal and taken notice of what I am eating you begin to realise quite how badly some of us eat and that living on 1500 calories a day is really not that hard when you are careful about what you eat and in what portions. I am on 1200 calories so far today at 8.00pm and can honestly say I am no hungry. Just don't let me drive past a McDonalds!!!

So here I am sitting here, 41 years old, needing to live at least till I am 55 and setting my first real goal. Well actually I feel the need now to set 3 goals all together. The second is to look after Matthew and bring in up in a way that means that he will want me at his 18th birthday party and the third to get some dancing lessons in about 10 years time so that I don't look stupid on that dance floor strutting out my moves!!!

Tony Carter
www.yourbig40.co.uk

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