Well another week of counting successfully - and this is good - I am so keen now to get on with this and get into a size smaller clothes - no weighing for me because that is too depressing! However it has got easier and most important of all - apart form passing hundreds of sweet shops and chocolate displays, I have ben able to be quite natural about this. I can go into coffee shops and eat out with Robert and Alex without choosing the wrong things.

So here's to another week and by the time the end of August comes I will be into those size smaller clothes!!!!

Well hello again and it's good to be back on a positive note......I have been sticking to a calorie controlled diet for over a week now and I am managing to discipline myself.

Alex has been sitting her A Level exams and I felt as if Robert and I were also part of them - so I am so relieved that is over - results in August.

We decided to go to Pizza Express close to Barts Hospital for a meal together to celebrate this ending and I was so pleased that I saved 800 calories and could enjoy a proper meal. During the day I had a banana and 2 squares of chocolate - a total of 190 calories and then I had the special Pizza at c.500 calories with a tiny dessert and coffee - yum - that was absolutely lovely!

So having conquered the urge to eat, eat, eat I am having loads of green tea and water and I am counting everything - and guess what? I am so enjoying my food!

I can still have chocolate but it is dark and if I want my caramel shortcake at Cafe Nero then that is fine as long as I knock off around 350 - 400 calories and that is significant out of 1000 a day! So I sometimes just have a corner of Rob's cake.......now to up my exercise and keep going so that I can be slim once again and feel so good at last.

Well, well, well 15th June 2011 - how time flies - will soon be Christmas! However, before that I want two short holidays now that Robert is well and can come away with me. Of course I don't want to be too fat when I go so how have I been doing in shaping up.

I have made my way back to the gym rather than swimming - and this week I have resorted to a calorie controlled diet -the best way for me. Why? Well I find it far too hard to resist chocolate forever so I count the calories and enjoy it.

Some pressure came off over the last month when the Consultant was able to tell Robert he is in remission - and some other pressure came on with Alex's A levels but they will soon be over. The next real pressure will be in August when the results come in........

This year is proving to be interesting and it is great to have things to work at together as a couple - Robert and I are happy with his health improvement and looking forward to Alex's bug adventure this year as she plans to go to University. Life is good but I still plan to get some of this weight lifted so I can enjoy life more.

Talk again later.

Well another weekend almost over and feeling good! I don't take forgranted the fact that I really do love working in HR - that doesn't mean that it is easy or always good fun or that people don't get on my nerves sometimes but generally I love my job and so the thought of Monday and the week ahead is normally a positive one!

I have done far better this week - Robert is home again and that is always helpful when the regular trips to Barts stop for a while......also to have us together as a family at home does help us to function better.

This is a challenging month for Alex and yet we are so proud of her because she has finished her job with the City Airport since she successfully found a job at Jamies Italian restaurant at Canary Wharf. All this change and yet she is studying well and seems well motivated to get good grades in her A Levels.

I am nervous for Alex and really hope she does well but I am confident that whatever the results she will do well.

So what about my shape up? Well I have had some positive comments this week which have helped - someone thought I was a smaller size than I am - and she is a size 6-8!! Also Robert noticed my waist is beginning to come in again....a bit to go again but I have managed to resist a lot of goodies (well baddies but you know what I mean!)

I am trying to eat far better and less in the evenings - also then I don't need to feel guilty in having an occasional treat. It is important that I enjoy my food of course and I am - anchovies, beetroot, oatcakes and hummous, porridge, cornflakes, lime juice and so on!

At work I am trying to leave off the coffee and stay on green tea mostly which should help.

With summer here life is positive - easy to get out and about so no excuses not to move eh?

See you later.