What do I report today?  Well I stuck - as did robert - to the very low calorie day again - although admittedly by this evening we had a wee treat after our healthy meal!

Don't like to admit it but I do have a strange relationship with food - I rarely get excited about having a meal but I do love my coffees and cakes/muffins/croissants - in fact anything that is fattening is so good.

We have both used the Concept 2 and tomorrow when I am in all evening on my own I intend building up some serious time on it -too easy just to do a few minutes at a time but I need to feel my heart pumping to benefit from this.  So considering it is January - still a whole week off pay day and the snow has been and gone I am feeling fairly positive.  I will be a size 12 and as I imagine that it feels right and so good.  Will write again soon.

Felt good today to discipline myself for first time this new year!  Robert and I reduced our calories greatly and loaded our plates this evening with fish and vegetables only - so light and tasty!  When I craved something sweet with a coffee I had a square of dark chocolate and that was nice.

On the Concept 2 today it seemed to take a while to burn off 21 calories - I have some work to do yet but I have to say that walking today (apart from the snow) up and down DLR station steps was far easier than I have felt it previously.

So I will have some rest now before Eastenders, documentary and Mrs Brown's Boys - water as a drink will be sufficient!

Rather than having another vlc (very low calorie) day tomorrow I think I will go up to 1100 calories max and then have another vlc day on Wednesday.  I did feel a bit fat in my size 14 trousers today - so keen to get to a slim 14 and then a 12 - by March this year......I will do it too.

Biggest achievement today was avoiding croissant for breakfast and replacing it with fruit - little sin was sneaking tow little flaky chocs at work!!

Sunday today and it has been a 'snowday' in London - lots of travel challenges on the roads, airports and train stations etc......and it has been good to have this weather arrive when I didn't have to go to work.

I have had a relaxing weekend - checking up on Alex in Buckingham - by phone - she is keeping warm enough and eating!  Robert and I have been out both days of the weekend but both times only as far as Canary Wharf - it was busy today.  Lots of people like to get out and of course always feels healthier than staying in all the time.  However we have enjoyed being cosy indoors with home made soup and of course - the Concept 2.

So we have made a better start on the machine - good to build up 'pulls' - need to start this week counting minutes and ensuring that we build up regularly.

We also plan to get back onto our 'fasting' habit of 2 days each week - seems to have caught on with lots of articles about it in the Times etc.....I need to get sugar out of my system and behave!

I bought a new pair of trousers today and I am still size 14 but it is being challenged - one thing is certain I am not going into a size 16 again so this week I will slim - we have a lovely weekend away to look forward to in Eastbourne.

Well I seemed to be surrounded today by concerned staff - concerned for the future of the NHS - there is one thing certain - this is the biggest change programme in the NHS.  Now some say 'not before time'  and personally I am for much of the reform but this is hard on staff.

Anyway this blog is about my progress - so mentally I need to stay strong and emotionally I need to stay strong - if only for others I am trying to help.

In other ways today was good - Alexy got really good results from last term's exams - yippee - robert is at Rotary and you can guess what news I will be pleased to pass on as soon as he is in the door!

So what about my health today? - O my - what is wrong with me apart from January being a tough month?  I am eating carbs all the time - well apart from the healthy salmon and sprouts for my evening meal - interspersed by sweets.  This must stop.

Our Concept 2 takes up nearly the whole room - and it will sit pride of place until we get moving on it.....have done a wee bit and will build up.  Unfortunately I have been like an old lady - bent over with back pain but I will get there!

Well this blog was started with good intention of writing forever - well I think it was!  Anyway we are now into a new year - 2013 and however unbelievable that is - it is now half way through the first month of this new year!

So what is new?  First of all I have been doing a lot of thinking, envisioning, dreaming, hoping and mixed into all of that is my plan that this year Robert and I will share exercise.  So I gave up my gym membership - that was not only not shared (except the monthly cost) but it was also largely unused.

We decided together that the membership money could be re-directed to a hired Concept 2 rower - one of those wonderful rowing machines I have used (sparingly) at the gym!

So it has arrived - we have built it and tried it for a minute or so each - in entirely the wrong clothes - but that is the beauty of using a rower at home - you can get on it with bare feet and your housecoat on.

I intend to report in this blog some wonderful value for money exercise and - more than that - fitter bodies at 12 High Meads Road and younger, fitter products very soon.  Well, give us a bit of time to break ourselves in......so here's to 2013 - and one big change that hopefully leads to many other positive changes for us.