I've just turned 33 and I am Scottish born and bred, living in Edinburgh (the capital of Scotland for any of you who don't know) with my lovely Fiance. He is German (Bavarian actually) and the most wonderful person. We are getting married in September 2011 and this is part of the reason I'm doing this. The other reasons are a desire to be fit and healthy and to look good in a little black dress. I must admit that before I came on here I had already lost 5kg and am therefore trying to drop at least another 5kg to reach my goal weight. Not so hard, you'd think, but I've always got stuck at this point in the past so maybe this will help me to do things differently.
I'm also a trained artist and working as an art teacher. My job situation has been quite fraught in the last year - I haven't been able to get a permanent contract yet, depite 6 years of experience and TWICE now being asked to fill in as head of the department in 2 different schools. As a result the last 6 months were pretty penny-pinched as for a while I was only working for a few hours a week. This has improved greatly recently, but still no job security.
That said, I must be honest that that's the only real problem in my life. I am a generally happy person, with very supportive friends and family. I'm fairly healthy (although seasonal colds caught from the pupils is a job hazard) and reasonably intelligent. I have a married younger sister who lives in Norwich (England) with her husband and baby, my neice Rachel. I have no pets, but would love to have a cat as we alsways did when I was growing up. I therefore tend to make friends with other peoples' cats very easily.