About
Welcome to SlimmerAndFitter.com!
Hi, I’m ColinJ and this blog follows my fat loss and fitness quest. There are lots of descriptions of my bicycle rides and walks in West Yorkshire and beyond. At some point, I’ll document them in enough detail that you could do them yourself if you wanted to.
Where am I?
I live in Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire, England. It’s a nice little town in the Pennines, a chain of rugged hills often referred to as ‘The Backbone of England’. I’m located only 8 miles from Haworth, where the famous Brontë sisters lived and wrote some of the best-loved novels in the English language.
It’s a scenic area and I like few things more than getting away from the valley traffic to explore the quieter roads and trails on the hilltops.
Why am I developing this site?
I set up SlimmerAndFitter.com at the start of 2009 to encourage myself to stick to my New Year’s resolution for once. I’ve drunk too much beer over the past couple of years and I’m afraid that the result was a large beer belly and it just had to go! That New Year’s resolution, perhaps unsurprisingly, was for a slimmer and fitter ColinJ to reemerge. I’m getting there – not quite as quickly as I would have liked, but nice and steadily nevertheless.
I had my 53rd birthday in January and for some obscure reason, I decided that I’d rather be middle-aged and fit than middle-aged and fat. I thought that writing a blog to chart my progress would be a good way to motivate myself to ‘fight the flab’. I’d be less likely to over-indulge in future since it’s one thing to be fat in private, but it’s another to reveal all in public.
What’s in it for you?
I’m hoping that what I post on this site will inform people and motivate them to work on improving their health and fitness. Maybe that includes you? If I set myself some challenging goals and make steady progress towards meeting them over the next few months, that should be motivational. After all – if I can do it, so can you!
I’ll try to inspire and amuse you. If all else fails, perhaps you will at least like some of my photographs. Especially the ones of sheep…
Cheers,
ColinJ
