JezLabs - Jeremy Kerwin -

Inspired by Alex Albrecht in Diggnation episode 133 I decided to join Jenny Craig and take a chance in changing my life around and loose some weight.

Now Diggnation is one of my favourite shows and when Alex was talking about the couple of months that he spent on the Jenny Craig diet it started to peak my interest.

Now, I must stress that although Alex never actually gave a challenge, this is what I’ve come to call it.

During this episode Alex was telling Kevin how he had started on Jenny Craig and had lost 20 pounds in a matter of months. I thought ‘interesting, I wonder if I could do it’.

It took me about a month of thinking about it that I decided to do it. I’ve now been on the diet for almost 7 weeks and in that time I’ve lost about 6kg.

I started this journey as a portly 103.5kg and after 6 weeks I’m currently at 97.5kg and still going strong.

If I had to sum up my experience so far in two words, it would be: “It Works”. Your given a weekly meal plan and at first I thought it was a lot of food and I wouldn’t get through it all, however I’m starting to get the hang of it all and it’s become rather easy.

Emotionally I’m finding that I’ve become more alert, have increased amounts of energy which has motivated me to start to exercise more and the self esteem benefit of watching the clothes sizes start to fall.

Looks like before long I’ll have to start to purchase a new wardrobe. Doesn’t bother me that much, perhaps I can change my look to something a little bit more ‘trendy’. I should really just stick with my own individual style.

So I encourage anyone out there that would like to loose a few kilos to take the Alex Albrecht challenge and see the difference.

I’ve been thinking about this for a while now and I’ve come to the conclusion that I wish I had creative talent.

That statement sounds really sad but I look at all the sites out on the Internet and the places that people have created for themselves and I think to myself “I wish I could do something like that”. I suppose most people have those thoughts so nothing is new there.

If I had to go into specifics I think it would break down to the following.

1) To take ideas that are in my head and produce something that is remotely similar to what I had first thought of.
2) Have the ability to do graphic and web design.
3) Be a better photographer. I’m currently studying a photography course and I can understand all the technical concepts, I just feel that I’m not quite there just yet creatively, but I think that will improve with time.

Those are probably the basic areas where I feel I wish I had a more creative eye.
I’ll keep working on it though.

Happy easter to everyone.