Hello Kelly here ...

Just a little bit about me ... 

Former fat girl here .. weighing in at a massive 24 stone 10 years ago. The NHS changed my life and helped me with weight-loss surgery, back in August 2011.  Since then the weight has been falling off - with the odd PT to help with fitness and exercise, as everyone knows weight-loss surgery isn't a quick fix .. its help and its life changing, but you have to put the work in physically. Even as big girl I was always active in playing sports - and always loved the gym - but back then the food took over my life. I got my life on track and lost the weight.  Then life dramas hit - work , kids, money, men, family bereavements .  Its a struggle to juggle everything.  So the weight creeps on .. and you start to feel rubbish .. guilty, let down and just not yourself. Then the pandemic hits - what else could go wrong - BOOM - lock-down March 2020 .. I found myself with three bottles of wine and the entire contents of my local corner shop in my wardrobe stacked up ready for me to throw down my gullet.  I looked in the mirror and just cried.  This simply wasn't good enough.  I had been lucky to have my weight-loss surgery provided by the NHS and frankly I was taking the piss .. I was throwing this life line away. So with a good talking to myself - the very next day I ordered my own Treadmill.  Thank god for Argos and their interest free credit - that's all I will say on that. Within in a week it had turned up, and I got started straight away.  Running? .. I hate running, why did a buy a treadmill and not a bike or a cross trainer? I'm such an idiot,  but I stuck with it.  It was hard .. not going to lie, 1 min walking then 1 min running .. then I got a bit quicker .. then I could carry on for longer .. mins turned into 10 mins, then 30 mins - before I new it I was running solidly for an hour and clocking up more miles than I was in my car !! So I did this for a while from March up until Christmas - averaging 6-7 miles running a day and the weight fell off - I felt great and I didn't look to bad either. Christmas happened and that was lovely even though it wasn't like 'normal' we had a good time and ate lovely food and drank lots of Gin. So I had 4 days break from running. I got back on my treadmill. Oh the burn .. it hurt .. I couldn't breathe .. I felt sick .. but I ran through it. It's amazing how your fitness levels can just drop like that.  Anyway - January hits and I see all these challenges pop up to raise money for charities.  I didn't sign up to any as I wanted to test and push myself.  I set myself a target to run 6 marathons in the month of January 157.2 miles - again I absolutely smashed that !! Well done to me - but I didn't feel like I helped .. I didn't feel like I actually achieved anything. I posted on my LinkedIn page/Instagram and Facebook my achievements and got bundles of love and support.  I asked my friends, family colleges, customers to come up with some fundraising ideas .. as I wanted all my hard efforts to make a difference.  A client of mine advised me of an astonishing fact, that 84 Men a week commit suicide.  This hit me like a ton of bricks ..I just wasn't aware of this number and it really saddened me. He suggested that I ran 84 miles in one week - that's 12 miles a day to represent each life that was lost. At first I thought, I cant do that .. I'm only running 7-8 miles a day at the moment - its just too much. Again I gave myself a good talking too.  You can do this Tullett.. you will do this and you are strong enough to do this. So I'm doing it!!! 84 miles in a week. I have such amazing inspirational men around me and in my life, from my 15 year old son, dad, brother, uncles, cousins, Granddads (who have now passed), friends, family, colleges.  They are all wonderful men and id hate to think that anyone of them ever felt in such a way; that they wanted to end their lives.  So I'm doing this for all of them .. for all of the men. Just so they know I'm here , we are here, CALM are here and we want to listen. Please dig as deep as you can to help raise some money for this amazing charity.  I'll keep you posted on my efforts throughout the week.  Start date is the 15.02.2021, for 7 days.  I'm hoping I can get that MILE FOR A SMILE. Come on !!!! Thank you x 

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