<p>In January 2007 I began a long term plan to lose weight purely for the health benefits at the time. Three years of weight loss had been going very well&nbsp;but, if you have tried dieting before, you will know how difficult it can get after a long time. It is easy to lose motivation and focus.</p> <p>In March 2010, Peter Barton, Managing Director of Forge Europa, made a very kind offer to sponsor me to lose weight during 2010 in an effort to help maintain my focus and pledged to sponsor me &pound;15.00 per pound of weight lost in aid of a fantastic local charity "St. Mary's Hospice". I accepted the offer and was officially weighed in on the 12th March to log my official starting weight. We agreed a closing date of the 31st November 2010 and then the challenge was on. At this time I set my own personal challenge to aim for a loss of 3 stone (a 42 pound loss).</p> <p>On the 31st November I was weighed in and the offical figure was 35&frac34; Lb Lost (Over 2.5 Stone). Not quite my 3 stone target but not a&nbsp;bad result for St. Mary's Hospice.</p> <p>In addition to Peter Barton's kind offer, a number of other companies have very kindly pledged sponsorship and I therefore now hope to rasie over &pound;1000 for St. Mary's Hospice.</p> <p>Thank you to everyone who has supported me, without your kind offers I could not have hoped to made such a valuable donation to charity. Please use this site to log your donations.</p> <p>Since January 2007 I have lost over 6 stone and I still have another 4-5 stone to lose, so there may be another sponsored weight loss next year.</p>