How Did We Get Here!?

Ok so how did we get here? - Well after coming back from a summer holiday to mexico with my girlfriend in late (OCT I think it was) 2012 I looked back through some of the holiday snaps and I wasn't really happy with that I saw... I mean I looked overweight... lumpy... not a very pretty sight. I mean I cant say I was surprised at what I saw I mean after all I have had 25 years of pizza, beer, McDonnalds, roast dinners on plates the size of a car tyre and any other crap that I could find around the house to shovel down my neck.

This was me on holiday...

...so I decided that I shouldn't just mope about and get down about it. I decided that I should do something proactive... something positive and make some changes so I would be happy with what I saw in the mirror.

and with a lot of hard training, careful diet, a bunch of will power and a little bit of luck this will be me before I go away next year (Oct 2013)

and so this blog was *born* - iv decided to nickname it my "Big Bloater to Body Builder Blog" (or 5xB for short) I will be mainly using it to keep track of my progress on my body journey, share my thoughts, share knowledge and tips that I pick up along the way and hopefully give some good advice of my own.

I am going to try and keep this updated as much as possible but I do have a full time job so between training, making good meals and working I dont have a huge amount of down time but im sure ill be able to get at least 1 post a week...