Today it is raining and yesterday it rained and it rained the day before that - and this is in London, not Scotland!  Think God must be responding to the drought and the introduction of the hosepipe ban - even down south.......made me feel that it was like a long winter and yet we have seen the sunshine so we know it is summer - let's hope it hurries back because people get so miserable in bad weather and none of us like that!!

Fortunately I have been regular at The Quad - the Crown Plaza health centre - mostly to use the Flebelos machine for weight loss and the swimming pool for overall toning.  Now I am far from my ideal or perfect shape but I am improving - shaping up - and that is good.  It spurs me onto do even more and better.  I really look forward to wearing my size 12 clothes (which I have not bought yet) - the good thing is that I believe I can do it.  that is so important - self belief - normally not something I am generally blessed with in other areas.

I have enjoyed feeling my clothes looser on me - even my size 14 trousers - and yet other size 14s are still too tight on me - strange eh - no wonder we don't know what we are doing in terms of size.

Sometimes when we try to lose weight it gets tough so we yo yo diet....however I believe in life that to keep going we all need to have things to look forward to not things to dread or things on the horizon we don't really want to do or go to!  Some things would send us back to comfort/bad foods but I am looking forward to a quality (if fast) Scottish weekend next week when I can get chance to catch up with my family - and then a few weeks later I will be packing for Spain - we didn't get over last year because Robert could not travel so we are all very excited about this year.

Work continues to be chaotic - I think I know what I am doing most of the time but I am not always sure that those around me throughout the NHS do!  We have some unprecedented changes coming and although we have always handled change as a necessity - this is different and people are reacting/responding in all kinds of ways.

God is good and I trust that once I get my weight off which will help to restore health and wellbeing I will find things to do that are worthwhile and add value to other people - wherever and whatever!!