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There is a point in an individual's life that forces a change of diet. It might be seeing one's self in a photo or video, catching a glimpse in a CCTV or indeed looking at this naked figure and accepting the fact that we just ain't what we used to be.

We begin to watch every diet programme and fitness series, we see great monsters transformed to thin athletes during a complete TV show and some of us will purchase celebrity keep fit videos and embark upon the latest diet regime. Some sort of fitness equipment will occupy any spare space in our home.

A list in our mind begins to form of all the things we are going to cut back, stop, start or speed up. I'd stopped popping into the pub on the way from home; felt a little lost at first and missed the company. I took up drinking slimline G&T's, ate nothing fried and filled the fruit bowl with all manner of fresh fruits. Porridge and berries became my chosen breakfast, lunch bars and fresh fruit took over from chunky pies and a square healthy meal became my dinner.

I couldn't lose weight! I tapped into the thoughts of successful slimmers but each had a different success story and many conflicted with each other. The common denominator was exercise, yep, getting off the bottom and getting the heart pumping. You would think that picking up all that fresh fruit and veg, walking the extra yard to choose a 'good for you' product and stirring porridge would burn calories … clearly not.

Languishing in the bottom of my wardrobe was a pair of trainers. I take them on holiday and sometime wear them! Tracksuit bottoms and a sweatshirt are my normal lounging attire so, I have the standard rigueur of the serious jogger and off I go.

A couple of miles to start I thought, So to impress the neighbours I ran out of sight and took to a steady walk for a period, began a run again for a short blast and repeated that run-walk-run regime for those couple of miles, well about half an hour anyway.

I have never sweated so much in all my life, in fact if you had bottled every drop of sweat that I had leaked from the day I was born, this one half hour effort beats a lifetime of perspiration, it wouldn't stop, I showered, relaxed and continued to sweat.

The next day I suffered, my legs ached, my knees hurt but I weighed up the benefits and decided 'no pain, no gain'. The running continued and so did the pain, weight loss? - Nothing to shout about.

For close to a month I was in agony and I decided that running was not for me, I'm putting too much weight on my joints, and I'm slamming my feet hard on solid pavements. It cannot be good and it certainly isn't doing me any visible benefits.

Somebody once said a simple sentence, "the secret to successful weight loss is 'calories in, calories out' and you will lose weight".

Calories in calories out, it is easy to get those calories in, too easy and difficult to get those calories out, very difficult. I could see no dividends in putting myself through agony but I fully understand the need to get my heart working harder. I decided to walk, and I'm acutely aware that this means not strolling. What I didn't want to do was be seen walking fast with clenched buttocks and moving my arms like a robot, I think it is called power walking. That wasn't for me, so I chose cross-country, through field and woodland.

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