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Paul's Fault !!!!!

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:45:00 -0600

Yes, I know a period of silence. What has happened? Has she lost two stone? Has she disappeared entirely? Has she found the secret of weight loss whilst still been able to eat?

Has she 'eck.........................!

Work has somewhat overtaken life recently. I had this mad wild thought that starting a new job and a diet would be a great combination. I had of course forgotten how totally loony the first three months are and I am so knackered that eating the first thing that comes to hand is the easiest. Now I can hear you say, 'well obviously that is fine as Kate is only buying healthy foods and so the first thing that comes to hand will be fine!' Yes in theory, but I can make fattening food out of celery and carrots. Believe me it is an art form that I have spent years practicing.

HOWEVER

I have lost half a kilo. Why? Paul went to Parisfor five days. So I have decided it is officially his fault I put on weight!!!!!!!

I have been reading a new book recommended by Sarah at work. The Schwarzbein Principle by Diane Schwarzbein. Makes quite a lot of sense. Her theory is that you cannot lose weight until you are healthy. So you have to work on healing your body first and then it will lose weight for you. Unfortunate healing my body involves cutting out all the crap. If I do this I will lose weight anyway! The one interesting thing I have found from it though is that my hormones may be responsible for my weight gain in certain places. Yes that HUGE set of tyres around my middle. So I am going to have a hormone analysis and find out if the old you know what is on the way. Oh hurrah, not only overweight but menopausal as well. Paul may very well be looking for a spare room if anyone wants to offer. Don't you feel sorry for him? I do.

So a little update to say I will get back on the straight and narrow. I will succeed. Not sure how at the moment. Anyone know a good lipo surgeon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To inspire

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:54:00 -0600

I want to thank all my wonderful friends who keep sending me ideas and lovely things to inspire me. These both came from Clare, the second link is truly wonderful, as Clare said maybe a little soppy, but hey who cares!!!........... Please keep them coming!

http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.co.uk/dsef07/t5.aspx?id=8130&filmno=2

http://www.stservicemovie.com/

Major rethink!

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:42:00 -0600

As you have probably realised, this is not going well, hence the silence!

I bought a new pair of scales and I am 1.5kgs heavier than when I started. Explain that one to me!

It would appear that this weight has no thought of shifting and my job has been so busy that my main focus has been on work for the last 10 days.

I obviously need to bite the bullet and do the one thing in the world that I hate the most. EXERCISE. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

The skipping rope has proved evasive, they don't seem to sell them here, or not where I have looked. So I need to have a major talk with myself and do something. The problem is I am so knackered that doing anything Monday to Friday is almost out of the question and this weekend I have slept and slept. Why doesn't brain power lose calories, I would be the size of Skinny Posh if that was the case!!!!

Not defeated, just somewhat knocked back.

xxxxxxxxx

OK..........need help!

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:17:00 -0600

I have today realised that with a busy busy time at work, everything else just goes to ground. So no yogurt in the fridge as I have been away since Sunday and this mornings breakfast was a mouldy old banana!

Massively hungry by lunchtime so give in to toasted cheese and ham (AKA as tosta mista here and everyone eats them!) but I could have had a tuna something or another if I wasn't sooooooo hungry thanks to missing breakfast.

Tonight, really tried hard and cooked chicken paprika, nice Delia recipe, but consumed a bottle of white wine as I was still hungry and spent most of tonight fantasising about chocolate that wasn't in the cuboard as I gave it all away to Lili!!!!!!!!!!!! How much do I wish I had hung onto some of it...??

Really need to focus and get on with it. Need to organise a meal plan this week which I haven't as I have been away for two nights and then came home last night knackered.

So help needed to rally me into not giving up........................................Sad isn't it, only 3 weeks of trying to be so diciplined, have lost nothing and feel that I have gone totally backwards in the last three days. You really can see that by Feb 1st loads of people give up the new regime.

I AM DETERMINED NOT TO BE ONE OF THEM BUT NEED SOME HIDDEN STRENGTH FROM SOMEWHERE........................................................

Pissed of person going to bed................................................. :-(

A miserable failure!

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:18:00 -0600

That would be me, the miserable failure.

I have been away for two days on work. Sunday started badly when a pizza SCREAMED at me from the menu to be eaten. OK so I didn't have dinner, but, 8 slices of pepperoni spicy cheese probably isn't on anyone's diet - aside from the I want to be a fat pig diet.................

The rest is Darren's fault. Well actually Jan his wife. She got the brandy out at dinner on Monday night up on the Silver Coast. I have felt like s**t today and have scoffed every fat laden calorie to balance a god awful hangover. Oh well, if you are going to blow it, at least do it spectacularly.

Stringent measures required tomorrow and new scales as I have officially become Kate Moss or Calista Flockhart's sister. My scales said I weigh 4kg. Yes, no zero missing 4kgs. On the basis my boobs weigh this alone, I know that I should not be celebrating, but assume the scales are wrong.

C'est La Vie, we knew this would be tough, but as Scarlett said.

Tomorrow is another day. Just need Rhett Butler now.................. :-)

Off to bed with peppermint tea!

Night Night xxx

Going nowhere fast!

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:16:00 -0600

I am after three weeks still 83kgs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How is this possible? My calorie count has reduced by at least 1000 calories a day.

I think my body is in lock down. It is hanging onto every fat molecule it can. My resolution is strong, it HAS to finally start moving. I am going to buy my skipping rope today................................will this be the magic ingredient?

I do however feel fantastic, so it is not all bad news. I wake up feeling refreshed which is a miracle and I have really high energy levels, so something must be working.

I will not be defeated!

K xx

Emotional Eater

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:44:00 -0600

I am, according to an online survey (http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/article/tools.html) an emotional eater. (Me emotional?....never!!!!)

This is what it says:-

You use food to affect your mood. This started as a conscious way to motivate yourself when you needed it, but then it became your second nature and turned into an unconscious method of dealing with problems.

Your Eating Habits

You are familiar with sweets, such as cookies, ice cream, cakes, waffles and other carb-loaded diet killers. They somehow creep into your diet whenever you need a little bit of moral support, or when you feel frustrated, unhappy or simply bored. Therefore, those excess calories are not consumed during your regular meals, but in between.

The Solution

Emotional cravings are easily confused with hunger and are therefore difficult to identify. In most cases, emotional eating patterns only become evident when they have already taken place. Therefore, emotional eaters should plan their meals ahead, and always have a clear idea how much they want to consume. This makes any deviations clearly recognizable and allows the user to find alternate and non-food related methods for dealing with emotions

To a degree it is true, the bit between meals is not, but I know that I reward myself with food, now in my case that might be a 2* Michelin dinner, but it is still calorie laden food! Sunday breakfast would be waffles with bacon and maple syrup, Friday night would be a great steak with some cream riddled sauce. You see the trend. I didn't, until in the last couple of years particularly stuff myself when feeling blue, or I didn't think I did, not in a cheap junk food way, but I realise now that if I was having a bad day, then a great meal in the evening was my way of picking myself up. Some women shop, I just did great food. Looks like I might be developing a shoe fetish this year to replace the food. Shall I warn Paul now or later!!!!????

I still wake up every morning thinking about the meals I will eat today, I have done for years, just in my case it was, so I thought, good food that i was eating. When I look at the calories I must have been consuming I wonder why I am not 20 stone! I should be. Oh, and we wont even go near the quantity of alcohol involved in these 'celebrations'

So somewhere, buried beneath this mound of wobble must be a metabolism that actually works, otherwise I would be the size of a killer whale. It seems to be working its way to the surface. I had always jokingly said that my metabolism was buried, but I now seem to be facing the fact that it could in fact have been working very very hard in recent years and if I feed it less calories, it will continue to do its job and eventually those pounds will start falling away.

Anyway, my waking thoughts, sad aren't I?

Have a lovely day, sun is shinning here, almond blossom is coming out, what a beautiful day.

Kate xx

PS Cornflakes for brekkie (needed to use up the last in a box!)

Soup for lunch and Roast Black Pork with Apple and Carrot salad for dinner with a mustard dressing (Paul's invention and mmmmmmmmmm)

Going strong..............I think!

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:41:00 -0600

Nearly 11pm and I actually think I may have crossed a line! I have energy! Not something I am that used to, especially at this hour of the evening.

I have started to take some vitamins again, spiralina, digestive enzymes, psyillium husks and ginseng. Maybe the ginseng is having a reaction. But I really feel quite good!!!!

The headaches have FINALLY stopped. I feel as though I have lost weight but the scales seem to be against me. They are not showing what I am feeling, but then I have always maintained that my body fat moves around my body, bit of a hiker I think, travels from my ankles one day to my knees the next and often resides just underneath my chin to give me that lovely extra chin look especially when a camera is around. So maybe it has just gone walkabouts or maybe some of it is been digested and will finally burn out of me in one shape, format or the other (no dwelling on this topic - promise!!!)

I have decided to take up skipping! I need to do something to shake the fat off me and thought I could embarrass myself in the back garden with only Polis and the sheep to laugh at me. Watch this space for how many minutes it takes me to collapse in a HUGE heap.........................O2 on supply please.....!!!!

Clare and I had a mutual buddy diet chat tonight and have decided that falling spectacularly off the diet on a Saturday shouldn't count against us. She scoffed marshmallows, I scoffed a WHOLE box of those fab Belgium chocs in seashell shapes. Christmas leftovers.............Oh and a bottle of wine! Maybe that is the real reason why the scales aren't heading in the right direction. But I was super super good on Sunday!

Well pillow calling. Night Night! xxxxxx

The best diet!

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:12:00 -0600

Thank you Angela for sending this to me and for giving me my sense of humour back when all I want to do tonight is eat pizza..............................Really bad mood. Even tried to go out for dinner and everywhere is shut as it is Monday. Official confirmation there is a God. He does not want me eating pizza!!! Off to eat Soya Chilli instead.

Diet for stressed women. This is a specially formulated diet
designed to help WOMEN cope with the stress that builds during the day.

BREAKFAST

* 1 Grapefruit
* 1 slice whole-wheat toast
* 1 cup skim milk
LUNCH
* 1 small portion lean, steamed chicken with a cup of spinach
* 1 cup herbal tea
* 1 Penguin Biscuit
AFTERNOON TEA
* The rest of the Penguins from the packet
* 1 tub of Hagen Daz ice cream with chocolate topping
DINNER
* 4 bottles of wine (red or white)
* 2 loaves garlic bread
* 1 family size Supreme pizza
* 3 snickers bars
LATE NIGHT SNACK
* 1 whole cheesecake (eaten directly from the freezer)
REMEMBER:
'Stressed' spelled backwards is desserts'
Here's some advice for you:

Dr. Neil proclaimed the way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you have started:

So I looked around my house to see things I started and hadn't
finished; and before leaving the house this morning, I finished off a
bottle of Pinot, a bottle of Chardonnay, a bottle of Baileys, a bottle of
port and of course a packet of Penguins.

Happy dieting girls...............................!

De-Tox Hell ...........and some good news!

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:41:00 -0600

OK, so here I am 9pm on Thursday evening and have finally given in and take some pain killers. The headache is quite spectacular and normally associated with at least two bottles of vino collapso! But no, just my body withdrawing from alcohol, fat, sugar, white starchy carbohydrates and am I feeling the pain. My kidneys ache, I feel like I have flu coming on and know I don't. It should pass in a day or so by which time I feel that I should be bouncing all over the place like a spring bunny.

I had better be.

FAB FAB FAB NEWS. I have lost 2kgs....................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Yeah...................

It doesn't feel like it yet, nothing feels loose and I feel like shit, so not exactly swinging from the rafters. But at least the scales are heading in the right direction and TECHNICALLY it is 15% of my total weight loss target.

I also have managed two other rather remarkable feats this week. TWO business lunches and still within calorie limits. Brownie points all round please!

HUMONGOUS CONGRATULATIONS to Clare who is on the same path as me, her weight loss is better than mine, but she probably has more willpower. But it is nice to have a diet buddy and know we are both on our way to being 'slinky milinky's' this summer.

Off to do my food diary which is a wonderful tool and really scares you when you eat something simple like a flour tortilla and realise it has 144 calories................FOR ONE. EEKKKKKKK. I always though flour and water, what harm? But NO. Look at all the FAT in them. I am becoming quite an expert on fat content, definitely my worst enemy alongside the old vino.

Another day, another calorie.............................xxxxxxxxx

1000 calories & counting.....!

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:21:00 -0600

OK, huge achievement today, client lunch and had grilled prawns and salad! No bread, no cheese, no pate, NON of the couvert that the Portuguese are famous for and me even more so for scoffing. PLUS no Vino with lunch.

What I want to know is where is my medal? I feel like I have achieved a miracle and the drums are not rolling (no that would just be my midriff!)

Anyway, grotty headaches today, can't work out if it is alcohol deprivation, food deprivation, using my brain again after 4 months of doing sod all or a cold on the way!

Time will tell I suppose!!!!!

Tee Hee. Paul was cooking dinner tonight, so on the planner it said Chilli Bean with a small list of ingredients. Came home to bean salad Not hot chilli Al La Carne, but with no carne!!!! So we are having the salad tomorrow night with some tuna. Good fun when hubs cooks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

Thanks for all the blog postings, please keep them coming they inspire me no end and at least I know you are reading my ridiculous rantings!

PS Sarah. Yes I know my muesli has sugar in it. I have made it without and it really does taste like sawdust! I work on the basis that if I count the calories, which I do......diligently, then I have taken it into account and actually this breakfast keeps me going to lunchtime, no snack attacks, so the low GI is working somewhere along the way...................BUT if anyone discovers tasty sugar free, let me know. Even cornflakes have sugar in them, and there was me thinking they might just be flakes of corn. How naive.

Boa Noite. xxxxx

Weekend Doom

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:27:00 -0600

Well, I always said this was going to be hard. Friday night, 1st week in new job. Half a bottle of Cava, 2 glasses red wine and 2 glasses of port. I don-t think the food counted!

Saturday, friends round for dinner. It again probably wasn't the food, although the creme fraiche horseradish sauce with the rare fillet of organic beef probably didn't do me many favours! Red wine only this time, but more than enough!!!

Sunday, I had decided to eat only lunch and then friends laid on dinner which was lasagna. I haven't even bothered counting the calories as I would depress myself so much.

So today.

Well 1000 calories and back on it with a mission. Vegetable soup seems to have become my staple for lunch as it is warm, filling and keeps hunger away, in fact apart from the headaches which are awful (that could be the HUGE reduction in booze!!!) I am not actually hungry much which surprises me. I find the temptation of cheese (especially melted in a toastie) absolutely killing. I went for my lunch today and the Portuguese toast ham and cheese sandwiches as almost a national obsession. However, I managed to decline and had a bowl of soup and a half chicken salad which was a good combination. I am also not hungry tonight, so despite the lovely Paul having all kind of goodies at home, I have had two bowls of spinach, broccoli, courgette, mange tout and potato soup! Scrumptious I have to say!

However. I am in a rotten mood tonight and I just want to go and eat chocolate, cheese, drink wine, stuff my face within anything comforting. But instead I am sitting here bogging after shouting at the dog! Not in the mood for 'nice' diet food so soup and a glass of wine for a treat!

I still haven't bought any scales, but although I feel a bit better I don't have that huge weight-loss feeling, but that is probably because I am doing it sensibly and not crash dieting and starving myself.

Congrats to Clare who lost last week. And anyone else who is on the mission of summer dresses like me, we will stay focused.......................

Signing off but promise to be more diligent this week.

K xx

Nearly blew it BIG TIME.....

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:24:00 -0600

OK, so tell me how you would cope?

The lovely Thai that you have planned to go to is closed for holidays which means that the absolutely wonderfully scrummy best Chinese in town just round the corner is the ONLY other place to go. (yeah right, Vilamoura Marina has over 200 restaurants in the vicinity but you do know what I mean!!!!)

Anyway I have ACTUALLY managed to go to a Chinese, ditch the amazing sizzling sechaun chicken and eat a perfectly lovely steamed sea bass and actually enjoy it.

Brownie points to me then as I have had a girlie lunch (thanks Pernilla and Marina, great time, good gossip and loads of compulsory laughs..........................!!!!) and a Chinese tonight and and STILL under 1200 calories (OK by about 5, but it still is UNDER.......!) This included two small glasses of vino!!

Feeling rather smug as you can tell. ESPECIALLY as I am on a normal carb fest day, AKA as day one dreaded period.......uuuggghhhhhh.

Mais Tarde. xxx

Day Three........................

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:42:00 -0600

How do people resist the temptation to jump on and off the scales all day?

Everything I read tells me to weigh myself once a week and I have decided this is what I must do. HOWEVER the real reason is that my scales at home have chosen this rather inspired moment to stop working.

So, a plot must be in force. I have no idea if my three days of goodie two shoes eating have resulted in any weight loss. Probably not as my period is due and I still feel like an oversized barrage balloon. So Monday it will be (or maybe Saturday as this is the first time I will be able to go shopping for new scales!) we will of course see.........The hardest part I always find is a whole week of wonderful planning, denial, martyrdom even. Then on those scales you go and what? One kilo lost. This is normally when I say to hell with it and go back to all my old habits on the basis that if I have eaten and drunk practically nothing for a week and it hasn't worked, it will not of course ever work.

THIS TIME IT WILL BE DIFFERENT.THIS IS MY SOLEMN PROMISE TO MYSELF.

So news today. I LOVE my husband. Yes I know I normally do, but tonight in particular. I came home after day three of new job (still going well!!) and we had black fillet of pork to be griddled, baked potato and salad. Paul had prepped the salad with raw cabbage, rocket, grated carrot, onion, apple dressed with a mustard dressing. Move over Gorden Ramsey, this was fabulous with just plain chargrilled pork and a crunchy jacket spud. With or without a diet, this was just scrumptious.Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Have found that totally killing alcohol would probably kill me, so two small glasses a night my ration. Still within my 1300 daily cal limit. Hurrah................................

I am however knackered and the headaches are kicking in mid afternoon, not sure if it is general detox, starvation or new job and brain ache. We will persevere..................................... More soon.

K xx

Day One!

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:16:00 -0600

Failure already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Paul has shopped until he drops and the fridge, veg basket and fruit bowl now look like Carmen Miranda is due to move in. (Goggle her, if it doesn't make sense!!) Breakfast worked well, lunch even better, a bowl of veg soup and a small roll with NO butter. Dinner, perfecto, this is the Jamie Oliver recipe for griddled tuna with a bean salad dressed with onions, tons of fresh herbs, lemon juice, olive oil and chilli. Seriously scrumptious.

Then the bottle of wine 'howled' from the fridge to be released and two small (promise) glasses were consumed.

TECHNICALLY I am within my calorie limit, only 1000 for the day. Does this mean I can have more wine....................???????????????????? Hmm probably not. Told you this was going to be difficult. I will now go plan something healthy as a later snack with my 200 calories or so............

OH YES BIG NEWS. FOUND OUT YESTERDAY I NEED TO CONSUME1300 CALORIES A DAY NOT 1600 AS PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT TO LOSE THE WEIGHT!DID A TEST THAT SAID I USE 1300 JUST TO SIT AROUND AND DO NOTHING. SO ON THE BASIS OF HAVING TO USE MY RATHER LARGE SPARE TYRE TO FUND THE MISSING CALORIES. 1300 WILL DO IT AS I WILL USE AT LEAST ANOTHER 500 RUNNING AROUND ETC.

PS New job went well..........................................phew.

xxx

Food Plan Week One

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 07:28:00 -0600

OK. So I have just spent 1 hour planning next weeks food intake. In the past I know if I get organised I can stick to it, if I don't have everything in place, it all goes horribly wrong!

I start a new job on Monday, so I am hoping that the distraction and excitement will also contribute to my new found disciplines.

It may seem boring, but I have the same breakfast every day. Dorset Cereals Luxury Muesli which is just gorgeous and a pot of Activia natural yoghurt otherwise everything else just doesn't happen if you all get my meaning!!!! Gorgeous hubbie also gives me a glass of freshly squeezed O Juice. So I will stick with this as it works good on calories, fibre and 2 of my 5 a day!

Lunch I have put in for a baked potato with a tuna salad each day, this may change to an omelette a couple of days, but the principle is something hot otherwise I get hungry, some low GI so I don't need sweets mid afternoon and as it is pretty cold and damp here at the moment something that will keep my going until dinnertime at approx 7.30pm. Calorie content of each seems to be similar.

I love olive oil and butter in potatoes, so I have allowed these instead of chocolates etc. I am NOT counting herbs, lettuce, cucumber etc as they have practically zero calories. I am also trying to manage my intake to 1600 per day and with the food above and the planned dinners below I have also put in my daily calorie intake which leaves me some flexibility to eat more fruit, or have some chocolate if I am losing the will to live! The soup is made from chicken bones just as a home made stock and then some vegetables thrown in and lightly boiled, hot and also stops me from thinking that i have only one small plate of food. I know that in the last few months my portion size has crept up and it needs to reduce! So the soup is less than 100 calories, but hopefully will do the trick.

I need to put a bit of a treat in each week, so my chilli bean with flour tortilla and parmesan counts this week. ONE flour tortilla has 146 calories in it! EEEKKKK.

Dinners below from Monday to Friday and TOTAL calories for the day including the breakfast and lunches above.

Dinner	Calories

85g fresh tuna steak on	1013
griddle
1 cup mixed canned beans
dressing of olive oil, lemon
juice and fresh herbs
Dinner	Calories

Chicken broth & veg soup	1022
112g Chicken breast, chilli,
oil & coriander marinade
3oz Basmati Rice
3oz Mange tout
Dinner	Calories

Chicken broth & veg soup	916
112g Roast Pork Filet
4oz mixed carrots, pumpkin,
potato, onion roasted in oil

Dinner	Calories

Three bean chilli made with	1089
1/2 tin mixed beans, 1/2 tin
tomatoes, 1 onion & 3 small
slices bacon. 1 tortilla &
2 tbsp parmesan cheese
Dinner	Calories

Chicken broth & veg soup	958
1 breaded cod fillet
1 cup mashed potato 1/2 fat
milk & 5g butter
1/2cup courgette

Reports through the week how it is going................................. K xx

24 hours to go....

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:47:00 -0600

Is anyone else on the same mission as me? I am eating my way through all the stuff in my cuboards that is banned from 7th January. This means that for breakfast today I had pancakes, bacon and maple syrup. I think I consumed by 1600 calorie allowance in one meal! The chocolate is nearly all gone and as I am planning on giving up red meat as well, we have spag for tea tonight!!!!!!!!!!!! Apart from one whole fillet of organic steak in the freezer I am now out of beef................That will be used for my one night off next saturday when I have friends coming for dinner. The girl has to have one night off a week, other wise I will never make it to August!

I am just about to plan my weeks food for week one and will post it later and see if I can stick to it! Hmmmm off to explore recipes with beans, chicken and vegetables.

Kate xx

2 entries in one day!

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:50:00 -0600

Excellent news, I have just found out the cooking uses 166 calories an hour. So by that reckoning, if I cook for four hours, I could have burnt off all the calories that I eat. Is this how the diet is supposed to work. I think not. But I keep looking for the cheats way of course!

This web site is good. http://caloriecount.about.com/

You can run an online food diary. Very scary and also it shows you how many cals you should burn each day and allows you to input all your activities. It counts typing and watching TV, so I should be all right then!!!!!

Thanks for the immediate response from Clare and Angela, always there at the right time girls. Much appreciated. Clare, let's do it together and we can reward ourselves with a weekend in Seville or Barcelona in the summer what do you think! A whole weekend with no husbands............................and all that tapas!

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. me thinks I am doomed from the start. Off for Chinese tonight for new year. How many calories in Sechaun Chicken........... Champagne..............more champagne.............................................oh well I did say not until 7th.

D Day 7th January

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:24:00 -0600

OK, so why 7th January? Well Paul and I are away for our 10th anniversary and will be having the final foodie attack in Lisbon so absolutely no good starting before. I also start a new job on 7th January, so seems a good omen. New Year, New Job and New Weight!!

I know that I need everyone to support me and help me as I am absolutely useless by myself. I have even got Paul doing all the cooking and shopping so that I can try not to think about food until my new habits become engrained!

If anyone else wants to join me feel free..........................!

K xxxxxx