Although I started this journey with childlike enthusiasm, I didn't have wicked notions of achieving impending hotness and a tropical holiday lounging in my designer white bikini in slammin' shape, Jackie O sunglasses, fruit cocktail in one perfectly recently pedicured hand, while the other sways carelessly back and forth at the end of my fabulously toned and tanned arm in the pristine waters of the Indian Ocean somewhere, completely carefree.
I consider myself to be a realist.
My aim initially was to stop myself from feeling so generally overwhelmed, to get on top of my game through exercise and not feel like I was wallowing in the bath.
To also have summers again when I would enjoy greater freedom of choice of what to comfortably wear, and to feel so heel-clicking good I might even steal a glimpse at my reflection and be pleased with the results of my hard work, instead of avoiding it at all costs.
My ''back on track'' initiative through this column, with the guidance of Pete Mirrielees and his merry crew at Let's Go Fitness, has inevitably made me busier than ever, but I am unquestionably getting the results, physically and mentally, that I was hoping for.
For the past 10 weeks I have eaten like a jockey and trained like a thoroughbred.
On top of this my personal trainer Pete (or ''life changer'' as he likes to be labelled) has led me to water and got me to drink it: crikey, I'm in the bathroom more than my gran!
But it is paying great dividends. I don't weigh myself a lot, choosing instead to focus on how clothes fit and how I feel.
However, curiosity got the better of me and I jumped on the scales this week. A loss of 7kg so far.
Happy with that, but still hoping to revive more muscle tone, lost during the past years of mediocrity.
My journey continues with as much enthusiasm and commitment as when I started.
I now view exercise as just part of my day.
Healthier eating, living and thinking, and actually that was exactly what I hoped I would achieve.
I've now got the confidence in myself to start striking out in other forgotten forms of exercise and have started jogging, my miserableness and motivation meltdown of 10 weeks ago, etched forever in my memory, urging me on.
• Follow Christine's return to the gym here in The Weekend Mix
