Hi I am back - what a quick week!

Has been a good week - tried a bit of raw food, liquid only etc during the days at work and managed not to over indulge which was good.

Evenings have been good - not that I have not been tempted by take aways but all of us have avoided these this week. I had spend a lot on supermarket shopping anyway and Alex is really into cooking now which is great.

She made African rice which was lovely - also a couple of different pasta dishes - so felt a lot healthier eating this week. Of course I love my oatcakes and hummous - nice and light - and they help me to stay off sweets a bit too!

I am up really early today - before 5am because I was tired last night and went to bed early so have slept for hours! Lovely to ease into the day on a weekend and appreciate free time.

Planning to go for a walk and swim soon and then to Canary Wharf later for coffee with a FB friend, followed by a shop browse and then a lovely lazy afternoon and evening - with another walk later on perhaps!!

Really looking forward to my holiday now - want to walk quite a bit before then as well as on holiday.

Have kept off sugar mostly this week but one day I bought low fat mallows and ate the lot in one evening - better just to avoid buying it completely!!

Talk again soon x

Right that's it and enough is enough!! I am really annoyed at myself for moping about and complaining about my weight when I had all the solutions in hand and was doing well in shaping up.

So what am I going to do about this? I have read about magic diets - the Alkaline diet, the new Atkinson diet, the liquid only diet etc but you and I both know that diets don't work for the majority of people so why would it work for me? Now all of these options of course are quite appealing because I want my weight to just drop off and if I really could stop eating I could see some of that........but I am me and I love eating.

However - sometimes it is good to ask what we want as the outcomes in our lives - and for me I mainly want to feel really good about myself including my share and mostly I want a waist and flat tum because without these I really don;t feel very feminine or attractive.

So what are my real options? Well that is quite easy in that I do need to eat something for fuel but I need to stop living to eat!! Also I need to get off sugar because if I can do that I will cut out cakes, sweets, and all the things I don't need. I also need to move, move and move more.....now I have absolutely no excuses - I can walk to work - I can walk back from work. I also have a monthly gym membership with access to a lovely swimming pool etc.

Motivation?? Yes I have ordered a nice black dress for 10 days time and a Rotary event so want to look okay. I am going to a 2 day Wellbeing Event next week and in 3 weeks time I will be in Spain - in the sun and possibly on a beach.

So I will maintain the blog and get the pedometer back on tomorrow and hopefully be proud of myself by next Sunday!!

Bye for now.....join me if you wish.