Everything changes..............hmmm, well so it does, but only when you really want positive change can positive change come about.

Since Fat Is The New Black first came into being very few years ago, it has assisted me no end in positive change for me.  Yes, I had spent 40 years on a diet, no, I was no thinner!  That was the basic premise that started me thinking about how I could change my life for the better and the very first thing I did was to name myself beautiful, not in spite of my fat, but because of it.  What happened next was extraordinary..............I lost weight and continue to do so.  I don't know that I eat any differently, I am not aware that I restrict my intake in any way.  I am empowered by the notion that I am a very worthy person and that how I look simply is not the issue. 

 My long term health and zest for life is very important - that's what keeps me going and as a result, I am fit and I am healthy.  Sure, I exercise, you can see me and my good pals doing just that in our dvd Fattitude but exercising no longer seems a chore, simply another fun factor in my life. In addition to this I rarely seem to sit down - so no more miserable couch potato dreaming of what she could and might achieve and loads of Vital Vicki, taking a very very active role in society.

I have spent the last twelve months making radical changes.  My girlfriend and I moved house with the kids, we now live in the city, not in the countryside and you know what?  All the things I used to think were vital to my life suddenly aren't and I am loving the ride!  I wonder if previously I only existed and now I am living! 

More bizarrely, my weight continues to reduce.  Certainly it's not in those two pounds a week lumps that convention suggests but overall, I'm losing weight. 

I wish wish wish that "the powers that be" would take more notice of this notion.  That we all, once in a happy situation, taking the focus off food and living life, simply do lose weight.  It's so simple isn't it?  Few of us respond well to "being poked with a big stick" - when was the last time your "new diet" failed in spite of the fact that people called you names because of your fat, in spite of the constant media attention toward the fight against obesity.