Hello and welcome to:

My name is Ruth Oshikanlu and I’m a nurse, midwife, health visitor and parenting expert.

I am a midwife at heart, truly ‘with woman’ and love working with women and children to enable them to become the best they can be.

I am a go-getter, and if I want something, I set goals and keep working hard to achieve them, and won’t concede until I make it happen.

I wanted to write a book.  In ninety days I penned one.  Tune In To Your Baby: Because Babies Don’t Come with An Instruction Manual

I wanted to make a real difference to the women and children, without feeling guilty that I was neglecting parenting my son.  I decided that the best way to do so was to become a nurse entrepreneur and continue to enjoy raising my son, whilst supporting women from before conception right through to toddlerhood and beyond; to enjoy pregnancy and motherhood without sacrificing their own personal needs.

Low and behold, www.tuneintoyourbaby.com was conceived.

However, there is one area that I have not succeeded to date.

My weight!

And this is why……….

For as long as I can remember, I have been big or let’s call a spade a spade, fat!

I was born big, and just got bigger.  I was the big kid in school, earning the nick name “Mama Toz” from the age of nine.

However, my weight has never held me back.  I love life, so I just lived life.  My weight never bothered me.  When it became a problem, I would diet and lose weight.

In 2008, I lost the most weight I’d ever lost – about 5 stone and kept it off for about 3 years.  However, over the last few years I gradually put all the weight back on, plus some more.

In desperation, last year, I went back to the gym and hired a personal trainer to enable me to get fit and lose weight.  But after 5 sessions I sustained a tear to my calf muscle which set me back.  I had to be non-weight bearing for a few weeks and put so much weight on.

At the start of the, I weighed the heaviest I’d ever been.  19stone and 2 lbs!!!!  Poor scales!  They’ve never worked so hard!!!

I do love life.  But somehow my weight has got in the way of enjoying life.  I weigh too much for my knee and ankle joints and they have started a revolt.  They are crying out in pain.  I need them so I must listen!

I love to dance, but even that is getting painful.

So I’m on a mission……..

To Get My Weight Out Of My Way!    . . . . . . . . For Life!!!!

To enable me to reach my goal, I will use my weight loss to raise money for charity.  To lose lbs, for £££s.

I want to raise

 

So I will need your help to do this.

I would love you to commit as much as you can afford for every pound I lose.

My goal is to lose

 

That’s a total of 114 pounds to lose.

You won’t have to pay until I achieve my goal and we can all celebrate my achievement and raise money for good causes.

I’m in!

Are you?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Let’s journey together

I plan to have fun all the way and I’ll keep you posted every step of the way.  So please join me in my disappearing act.

Doing it my weigh,