<p>Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</p> <p>Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving &ndash; they&rsquo;ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they&rsquo;ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it&rsquo;s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.</p> <p>So please dig deep and donate now.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>With the support of my social network, I managed to quit smoking after over 20 years! Now 6 months later, I am fighting a new battle this time against weight. A prolonged illness, quitting smoking and sitting at my desk for 12+ hours a day including weekends all adds up to an increase in weight, out of breath just climbing the stairs and I can no longer take advantage of my fabulous wardrobe as nothing fits! An increase in 3x dress sizes!</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 300; line-height: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;"> <p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Enter my new client, Progressive Training Systems &ndash; Faye Jordan &amp; Ali Wilson who have retained me to do their marketing and promotional activity for the launch of their new Venue in Brackmills. These guys have big hearts and for their launch week they will be running various events for their favourite charity http://www.kidsaid.org.uk/ Can you see where I am going with this??? The launch of the new premises will be the last week, in October, the school hols, so we will be running lots of family friendly activities as well as a few Iron man competitions etc, something for everyone. I have decided to kill 2x birds with 1x stone, I can help my new client support this great charity and get myself able to climb mount &lsquo;apples and pears&rsquo; without losing breath! Now these guys are ethical and do not condone rapid weight loss, although I will be recording my weight we will be measuring size instead: 3x key areas of my body: chest, waist and hips it&rsquo;s cm&rsquo;s I am looking to lose! And there are a lot to go! Here lies the birth of my 8 week charity challenge!</p> <p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">So when you see me out and about at networking events etc please support me, sign my sponsorship form, give through my just giving page, help me to raise money for this great local charity, by losing flabby bits and if you want to join in the charity challenge I am sure that can be arranged too! Plus we have a prize for the person who correctly guesses the number of cm&rsquo;s I lose between now and the launch, the last week in October. But your guess only counts if you are sponsoring or pledging money.</p> </span><br /><span style="color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 300; line-height: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;"> <p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">You guys can watch my progress as Faye trains me&hellip; this is going to be hard work! She looks lovely and sweet&hellip; but she is a professional trainer and will be pushing me to my limits, at least twice a week. Keep following this special blog to keep tabs on how I progress.&nbsp;</p> <p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">My blog</p> <p style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><a href="http://www.thelasthurdle.co.uk/?page_id=378">http://www.thelasthurdle.co.uk/?page_id=378</a></p> </span></p>