What this is all about

I've been going on for years about the issue of weight loss and running half marathons and generally screwing up my pudgy little face and saying 'it's not fair, nobody understands what it's like to be fat'.
Well now I'm really going to do something constructive, instructive and entertaining about it.
Never before has obesity been such a newsworthy issue, as never before have there been so many fat people.
So it is time to really get down to it and see how normal people can deal with it without resorting to gastric bands or going on daytime TV to cry about how they can't help being fat.
Make no mistake, I am fat, massively overweight, a lardarse, a chubber, fatboy, oompa lumpa, piggy, whatever.
And there's pretty much only one reason for it, I've eaten too much and done no exercise.
In order to show how obvious this is, I am going to post regular food and exercise diaries to show how the two things are somehow linked.
I am also making video diaries which you can see by clicking on the links on this page.
I have set myself a simple goal, which is to lose eight stone and train to run the London marathon next year, 2010, to raise money for the British Heart Foundation.
Eight stone is a lot to lose, but when you're 5ft 6 and tipping the scales at 18 stone, you can spare it.
I want to document the journey to explore the issue of obesity and body image for men, and how men fit into the whole diet industry.
I also want to use this as a forum to share ideas and experience from anybody going through the same thing.
It's also important to me that I achieve my goals by doing things that everybody can do, making life changes not going on weird diets and starving myself and generally feeling crappy about it.
Making positive changes is what it's all about.
This is no place for self-pity, it's time to take the fat back, and kick its ass.
I hope you will find it interesting and entertaining, or at the very least momentarily distracting.