Soooooooooooooo woke up this morning thinking it was Sunday - since my last post the diet has not gone well and I was ready to turn over and go back to sleep until the other half pointed out it was Monday morning.  Head not great and still very foggy and slightly (very) hungover I got ready for work and prayed for 5pm.  Now trying to shuffle papers around my desk so that I at least give the illusion of doing some work, not good!

As I said the diet has not gone well, went to the hairdressers on Thursday night and was within my calories for the day then my friend (who is the hairdresser) asked me if I wanted some wine - two bottles of rose later we decided it was time to go home.  So up on Friday morning and getting ready for wedding number 3 of this year.  Many many (too many) drinks later it was Sunday and I was watching the Olympic closing ceremony with yet another glass of rose, hence the feeling shit today.  Was planning on going to the gym after work today but think it will be bed instead - I can clearly see where the motivation has gone but need to get a grip and actually get excercising or I will end up the size of a house.  Hopefully my next post will be more positive!

Hello from me

I have enjoyed reading several people's blogs over the last month or so.  The first one to take my interest was Busy Ali Bee with her witty stories and great information and recipes for baby food - some of which is also adult friendly.  I then went on to follow Frugal Queen and Yellow Suitcase as they have inspired me to take up making/renovating things myself (though these are all at the idea stage right now and nothing has actually been made – laziness gets in the way of the creativeness!).  I don't have a baby to give you any inspiring/interesting anecdotes on and get too easily distracted by nights out and nights in with the almighty vino to actually have any too interesting to blog about so decided I was going to be a reader, not a writer. 

This was until I stepped on the scales the other day and was not in such a great mood - I am the heaviest I have ever been and officially can’t get into any of my clothes.  Decided it was definitely dreaded DIET time - not a great time to decide this with two weddings to go to this month but need to start doing exercise and stop lunching so much (two courses at lunch are not a great idea but taste sooooo good) and cut out the vino/crisps/nuts/whatever I can get my hands on as my body/bank balance cant take it anymore!   I knew it was slowly creeping up but didn’t realise it was this bad. 

So today I had fruit for brekkie which I normally love but because I had to had it I wanted a bacon roll!!! My thoughts are therefore (1) more exercise ie gym at least 4 times a week (realistically not going to happen) and (2) eat less - I am using an app on my phone but it doesn’t seem to like wine and g & t’s  for some reason as they make the calorie count sky rocket, think there must be something wrong with the app! and (3) drink less...........................

The crux of it is I am off on holiday in 12 weeks time - can I lose a stone (or more realistically 10 pounds) by then?  Usually I give up after about two weeks of dieting but for the sake of my sanity and the other beach goers I am intending to blog about this so that I can avoid the beached whale look on holiday.  I am hoping that the blog will show me a pattern for when I eat too much or when I don’t exercise enough so that I can try and sort things out.  Now to be fair I am not mahusive at all but I would like to be down to roughly the weight I was when I got married 4 years ago.  So even if no one else reads this blog (not sure if they will) then it will hopefully be of some use to me.

Anywho off to get my hair done for wedding number 3 of this year.

Enjoy then sun while it lasts. xxx