My reasons for doing this

Hi,
Mark here with just a little insight into why im doing this.
I was really into sport at a young age, football, badmington and cricket were my favourites and i played all of them regular. When i turned 18 i became more interested in beer and clubbing...i then became lazy and didnt do any excercise.  After i got married to Sarah in 99' my weight (i had always been fat with a poor diet) increased gradually until i was nearly 20 stone about 4 years ago!
I had various reasons for this weight, the main one was a serious back problem which resulted in 2 operations ,a lack of mobility and the onset of depression.  I decided to do a weightwatchers diet which helped me lose about 3 stone and keep it off over 2 years.  When i got the all clear from the doctors and after consulting them abiut excercise i joined a new local gym to my area Zone Fitness-Northallerton...since then i havent looked back a lot of hard work still to do but i WILL do it!
I will put my goals and aims up in the next post.

Regards Mark

Ps Expect me to be brutally honest in my blog.  I say it as it is!

Hi there!

We are Sarah and Mark.
I am a 36 year old mother of 2, a 15 year old boy and a 9 year old girl.  My husband and the kids dad is 40...almost!
Both of us have Decided to start blogging about "Our fitness journey"
We are not absolute beginners but definitely NOT experts either!

We are going to write about our own personal journeys and hopefully learn a huge amount on the way.

WHERE TO START!

I have never really been interested in fitness or sport in general, whereas Mark was into sports in a big way until he finished college.
Over the years we have both joined various gyms without much motivation, knowledge or success.
Like many women I have body confidence issues, which got me started again.  Mark Doesn't have as many issues although he does say that he's too fat...yes he said fat, 1 thing we can guarantee is pure brutal honesty from the heart of North Yorkshire.

So that's the intro done...we will both be back soon with our individual stories, goals and most scary of all...progress pictures with our body stats...aaarrrrggggghhhh we must be mental:D

Sarah & Mark