Hi

My name is “Shazia” pronounced “Shar zee ah” Firstly can I say I have never done anything like this before! Ok here goes all about me…….

I am 39 Years young, married with two girls aged 14 and 6 years old. I live in Harrow - not on the hill more at the bottom!

I am working fulltime with an airline and, no, I am not a “trolley dolly”. I work in our London office as part of the sales team working hard to get bums on seats! It’s a great job, full of challenges, with no day being the same!

So, how did I become Famously Belle? I was randomly approached by Korin Nolan who has been my Pilates teacher for years. Taking part in this amazing challenge was totally random opportunity, but I thought “mmmmm it will take me years to save for a liposuction and a full MOT over haul”, so why not!

All my life, since I was 16years old, I have been battling weight issues. Being an Asian Pakistani the pressure was and is always on you to be thin. I was constantly having my plate watched by aunts and uncles being told big people eat loads but that’s not always true! I always used to wish that the weight would shift from me to my two brothers because they didn’t deserve to be thin as much as I did. Unfortunately, it seems I have inherited mum’s genes, and they got dad’s - typical!

I have been through every imaginable weight loss programme in hope that each one would be the miracle diet. The most weight I ever lost was about 9 years ago when I managed to lose 3 stone. Which I managed to keep off for about a year and then I fell pregnant with my second child and I began to relax my eating habits again. Ann, Famously Fit’s Nutritional Advisor has already told me that faddy dieting will never work. I am going to have to learn to completely change my eating habits!

About a year and a half ago I joined a gym close to work and spent my lunch times in there doing 30 minutes of exercise a day. This was better than nothing. It was great and I felt good. A year and half on, my bulges are still there so I am clearly not doing something right. In the last month or so, the motivation was starting to wear off, and I was making more and more excuses to avoid going to the gym.

I am so not looking forward to press ups and running - the two things I really hate doing. But having mentioned it now, I bet that’s exactly what I will get! I guess I will miss certain foods like big juicy steaks! Fortunately I don’t have a sweet tooth and cakes and biscuits are not the issue – I am convinced it’s the meat - I am a carnivore! I know I have strong will power – as a Muslim, I have just been observing Ramadan - which means I have no food or drink between sunrise and sunset. It is a gruelling regime, and I am sure that Steven and Ann cannot throw worse at me - or can they? Helllllllllp!

So now here I am, throwing my self in to this unknown! I have butterflies - just like before you sit on a rollercoaster not knowing what to expect with ups and downs. I am desperately hoping that there will be more ups.

All I know is that for a very long time I have wanted to get totally fit and eat healthily, and with the help of Steven (LivingWell, Park Lane Hilton) and Ann (Nutrition Advisor to Famously Fit) I will finally succeed in tightening those bat wings, toning the thunder thighs, off loading my saddlebags, and most of all to end up with a flat washboard stomach.

I have a great target to work toward. Next June I will be forty and I don’t want to be a frumpy 40 year old. I want to look be a “glam mum”!

So here’s to lots of pains and aches, but more importantly “focus Shazia focus on a new lifestyle because someone is gonna kick your behind to get you there”!

'Til next time then ...... Belle