Here's to 20 kilos or 44 pounds

Here’s to ordering a salad when others were eating a burger.

To drinking more water than seems humanly possible.

To going five more minutes on the treadmill.

To saying ‘screw you’ to the old me.

To looking in the mirror and seeing no change.

Throwing on my shoes and working out anyway.

To looking in the mirror and seeing major change.

To falling down and getting back up again 

Here’s to back injuries.

To personal trainers and physios who found a way so I didn’t have to give up 

Sweaty t-shirts and perseverance, sore muscles and stinky socks

6am RPM classes and bottled water

Here’s to getting up every day and doing it all over again.

Here’s to all the friends who supported along the way.

Here’s to achieving the ultimate goal of losing 20kgs