This has to be the hardest thing I have had to do since I became a born again person at the age of 42! Sounds easy doesn't it? "Jules, write me 450 words all about you".

So who am I? Well if I ever find out for sure I will come back and let you all know! Like us all, I am just me, love me or hate me I am what I am.

I have been overweight all my life, at 11 the school nurse put me on a diet and that is where it all started to go wrong, years of yoyo dieting and weight loss/increase followed. Lose 2 stone, put 3 back on..sound familiar?

At 42 I became single again and discovered that actually life was pretty good, I stopped worrying about the weight, I got out and made lots of new friends and had fun - yes I am still fat but I am healthy, I use the gym, I walk my dogs daily, all is well and my weight has stabilised.

Back in February 2005 I responded to a post on a BBW site, it was asking for very overweight ladies who were fit to get in touch, well, curiosity got the better of me and 8 months later I find I have been part of a whole new experience, and what an experience it has been!

My life was taken over by learning routines! What looks I got whilst walking the dogs in the park, as they ran around, there I was working through a routine, talking to myself and cursing if I got a step wrong, It's amazing that I never got carted away!

Weekly invasions into my home for practise sessions, which some days after a very long day at my real job was not easy, but once we got to the filming weekend all that was forgotten as I walked into the studio to find camera's, lighting and crew all in place waiting for us to start; the thrill I got as I walked in for the first time is indescribable.

So why did I get involved?

Because I firmly believe that if you want to help people help themselves you have to give them the right tools to do so, and us large folk do not want to watch slim people prance around doing moves that I have trouble thinking of, never mind doing!

You can be overweight and healthy, just as a slim person can be slim and unhealthy, what we need to do is learn life styles, what works for us and to find people who actually have faith in us not just criticism.

At the first meeting I had with Vicki, she was explaining her vision, and I knew that this was something I had to be involved in, it mirrored my feelings about how obesity is dealt with in this country, now all we need to do is get out there and do it and do it we will.....with oodles of FATTITUDE!