I wanted to start a new blog because the other blog represented the Team Shell that thought she could lose weight and get healthier but just needed help getting there, this new blog represents the Team Shell that knows she can do it and knows what to do. For those of you that aren’t sure what I am talking about here is a quick summary:
I was extremely overweight and didn’t realise it. It had seemed to me that I woke up one day and felt like I was fat, very fat. Unbeknown to me, I had actually been this way for a few years. Progressively it was getting worse. I entered a weight loss competition with a local radio station as a “competitor and motivator” for someone else with similar issues. I was interviewed and out of hundreds of applicants I won. My first training session was the 25th January 2007. I had been an “Elite” Athlete before so I knew what it was like to train. I didn’t know what it was like to train weighing a whole lot more.
During the following months I huffed and puffed my way to a level of fitness and strength that I am now pleased with. It has however given me a taste for wanting to do more.
I started the challenge with low self esteem, uncertainty about where I was heading, poor eating habits and a weight problem that was making my life miserable and quite frankly not worth living.
Throughout the challenge I used my old blog http://teamshellmix1063.blogspot.com as a bit of therapy for myself and everyone else following my progress. I used it as a tool to help others in a similar situation to me. I used it as a tool to prove to everyone that the journey is not an easy one but persistence is necessary. I am not an expert on all of the things I covered but in terms of knowing how an overweight and self destructing person feels I think that I am more than qualified.
So with that welcome to my new blog. I hope that you like it here. Now that I know what I am doing in "Blog world" I will be able to provide you with the usual stuff plus much much more! You should stick around, you never ever know who might drop in for a visit!
Warm Regards
Team Shell
PS I also developed a liking for talking about myself in the third person.
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3 comments:
Hi Shell,
love the new blog, but I wrote a big long blurb and lost it all when I went to create the account so that I could publish the comment. Guess no one will ever know how witty and wise it was (ha ha ha - you'll just have to imagine). Never mind, after all you're the one who is supposed to be witty and wise! And you are!!
Keep up the good work. You know your blog fans can't get through the day without their daily fix of Team Shell.
Do hope all your blog-buddies come over to the new site and hopefully will continue to add their support and encouragement for your amazing transformation.
I too just lost my very long blurb.
Congratulations on the new blog. Hope all of your followers from the Challenge, join you here as well, for your wonderful entries that not only inspire us, but make us laugh as well.
Did you purposely put that you would not allow anonymous comments anymore? Just a query :-)
It's great that you are keeping us all abreast of your success. We need to share your joy and support you when you need it.
Keep swinging those arms!!keep pumping those legs!! Yeah team!!
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