This month is the 1 year anniversary of me becoming The Biggest Loser, the time, as it so often does, has flown by, loads has happened but being human I am wondering what I could have done differently to do even more stuff. The thing is looking back in time should always be done to learn a lesson and reflect but never to regret or kick one's self in the backside! A year on and things don't seem to want to relent, this very week I am having an online meeting with some contacts in the USA, one of them being a guy who was the "at home" winner of Biggest Loser a number of series ago. This is exciting for me, to be honest I might even be a little star struck which is a bit daft, but there you go! We will be discussing me going out to the USA to speak alongside him and other weight loss type bods, and speaking is what I love and I love the USA it's just all about lots of love! Fantastic!

I'm currently working on a new online product, it's aimed at men, the men I am looking for are currently where I was two years ago. Perhaps with their own business and finding life is a struggle with the extra weight they are carrying, business could be better, life could be better, if not perfect, if they could just get this side of their life sorted out. Get committed to lose this thing that is holding them back from being the most awesome they can be, or at least, make significant advances towards that! That's where I was, and I still am a work in progress (aren't we all!?!?) and I can relate to that and help guide and coach them in the right direction. If that's you, get in touch, [email protected]

Work in progress, yup I believe we are all that at some level or another, if you are perfect please get in touch I'd love to learn from you! So I have been working towards my weight loss and body shape goals some more since I last wrote, more body fat has come off and more muscle has gone on. The thing is a lot of people get themselves worked up over the number on the scales, I was once pretty much obsessed, as you might imagine being in a weight loss contest, with the number on the scales. Now I am a lot more relaxed, whether or not that's a good thing time will tell, and I prefer to focus more on how I feel, how my clothes fit, how I look in the mirror and most importantly for a happy life, what my wife says!

I really have found a new love for the rowing machine, this past month I was taking part in the Concept2 Challenge Series, I tried my hand at 2500m, dear me that was hard, and who knew that extra 500m would be such a killer! The best time I record was 09:52 on that, I didn't record it on the website as I intended beating and then I missed the deadline, that won't happen this month! 2000m, my current PB is still 7:29, try as I might I can't beat that, but I will this month. I have been doing a lot of intervals and tabata training on my machine. Intervals involve a 5 minute warm up followed by 14 rounds of 30 second sprints 60 seconds tick over. I sprint at about 1:40/500m. Tabata involves 5 minutes warm up followed by 8 rounds of 20 second sprint 10 seconds rest 1 minute rest and repeat for a total of 3 times. This is a killer! For the 20 seconds I start out chasing 100m in that time and by the end my goal is to stay above 90m distance rowed in 20 seconds. Try it and let me know how you get on.

This month I've also written a chapter of a book with number of other speakers and coaches. My chapter is called "Inspiration is great, Commitment brings greatness" basically it's about how we can all be inspired by an event or a person or book or any number of things really but it's what we do with that inspiration that matters. Be inspired but take action on it, and take action in the next 48 hours is the message I am putting out there. Amazing things can happen by doing what might seem a tiny thing at the time but that tiny thing can start gaining momentum. Just saying.............

Have a great month!