So... This is my first post to my first blog. Why? I'm not too sure. I just feel like this may help me to get back into surfing if I am writing a little about surfing.

I grew up in Warrington. A pretty large industrial town smack bang between Manchester and Liverpool in the north of England... No surf there!!! But I did love swimming. I would try to swim pretty much everyday.

I moved to Uni in Portsmouth at when I was 18 and the pool here was nasty. Dirty locker room, scanky showers, the pool wasn't too bad I suppose. This kind of put me off going and at around the same time I bumped into the Uni Surf Club and got well into my surfing. I was not brilliant, in-fact I could only just stand up. But I loved it and it was great exercise. Any way 3 1/2 years ago I left uni and have only been surfing a hand full of times since.

I now spend all day either sat on my arse in the office or driving as part of my job. Needless to say after nearly 4 years of doing this and eating tasteless calorie filled Tesco sandwiches I've put on loads of weight.

Since Christmas I have tried to go for a swim twice a week and only managed to lose 1lb in a month :( Lent is here and seems like a great time to revamp what I am doing to loose more weight for the summer.

I want to surf at least once a month and hope to get within my bmi within the year if not make a huge dent on it.

I'll be back later as I need to nip out but hope to give you all an interesting account of the fat mans struggle to surf better and live a more healthy life.

I will also try to get rid of this minging template asap :)

catch you all later.