As some of you may remember me saying quite a little while ago, the reason I first started loosing weight while I was doing a silly stupid unhealthy amount of exercise while doing a charity swim for a hospice....
well thankfully now, I am a lot more sensible.. and .. this time around I am now light enough to skydive for them!
the weight loss.. It started coming off during the Channel Challenge, and I really wanted to keep pushing it after setting my mind to doing a skydive to raise funds. It was the day I completed the swim that I odered my first bumper pack!
There is still a long way to go, but I found fundraising for St gemma's is my motivation, I knew I would need to lose it to be able to do the jump and its a little like a personal challenge, so it is exciting knowing it is real now.. It is how I make those giving money understand. I tell them it is only a small journey for me, it is a challenge but those who rely on the help of St Gemmas face harder, painful, and daily challenges just to remain with dignity. I have to say knowing my challenges were nothing in comparison really are the reason I keep on. I remember the Channel swim challenge, I managed to go everyday to swim and complete it in a month, the first days I could only just manage 14 lengths, and grew stronger, the final day I ended on 70. Made me realise just how lucky I am that I can achieve things like this, that some people who need St Gemmas support are unable to.
Anyone that knows me is probably wondering why I'm attempting to leave my safe little world of cooking, painting and facebooking, and leap out of a plane, I'm not exactly the epitome of an "extreme sports guru"! The truth of the matter is that I truly believe that St Gemma's Hospice is a brilliant cause and that it deserves me risking life and limb for...or at the very least cracking a few bones for!
Most people know this year I wanted to make a change, not just for myself, but for others.
I have spent most of my life as a stationary object. letting it slip past, while there are many people that would grab it with both hands if they were only able too.
To do this, I have decided to become a quivering bags of wobbly nerves and do something a little crazy and and try my wits at a tandem skydive.
A tandem skydive is an exhilarating experience: you get the adrenalin rush of the parachute jump, jumping from 15,000ft, with a minute's freefall.
If you are unable to contribute, no problem. One way or the other, if each of you receiving this would forward thisas an email to everyone in your address book who may wish to help, asking them to donate and/or forward ...think of the possibilities!! No amount is too small. Every pound counts and will be so very much appreciated. Thanks for anything you can do.
My page:
http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/Sarahs-Events-for-StGemmasHospice
So this is my new little less lumpiness piece of information to be proud of....
Honestly without this diet, I would not be in the position I am in now to help.
xxx
I am proud of changing me.