108 Days..Welcome!

After struggling for so long to get motivated to lose weight, my husband and I recently booked a holiday to Cape Verde off the coast of Africa and I decided, that was the sign I need to get off my butt and make a change before they start thinking there are beached whales on the coast! *oh no - I'm beached az bro*

Living in Norway, the long, cold winter has not made it easy to shift the blubber that hot chocolate by the fire and hearty meals, along with a severe reluctance to go outside, piles on!
So, I thought with a blog perhaps I would get some followers to share this journey with, keep my motivation up and stop me copping out after a week or so, unlike my other attempts! However, now my body is over 1/3 fat and 25% should be the maximum..it's definately time to make a change!

I am going to attempt to lose a half kilo a week (a safe amount to lose), so by the time my beach vacation rolls around hopefully I am 7.5kgs lighter (and hopefully with a lot less cellulite! I am not going to do one of those extreme diets that involves cabbage and starving myself - I love food too much to do that! Instead I am going to try a combination of low-carb eating, with only cereal for breakfast, healthy dinners and lunch/snacks of either salad or diet soup/shakes.

Aside from this I am going to do Zumba for an hour most days and have invested in blood circulating tights: http://www.scalabiopromise.com.au/ to wear underneath my clothes because I have terrible circulation and cellulite and I want my hard work to pay off! They have a money-back guarantee so why not?! I'm going to put my measurements up here, so we can see if I'm really making any progress!

Please check back to see how I'm going, and kick me in the butt if I slip up! I really want to feel confident and happy in my body again.. Feel free to share tips and your own stories!