Been a bit lax on the posting front but behind the scenes I have been working hard & to prove it This week I have lost another pound whih brings my grand total to 5lbs so far thjis year not brilliant I know but a def push in the right direction.

Speak soon

xx

Its been an eventful week.

I ended up in the A&E dept last Friday with chest pains which turned out to be another Chest infection and a muscle spasam!

My DH has had a few days holiday and has been looking after me which has been lovely.

A bonous on the weight front is that I now weigh 12st 8Lb which is a loss of 3 since the begining of the year

Well here are my stats for the first day of the New Year

weight 12st 11lbs 08 oz

bust 42 ins

waist 45

hips  42

Not good reading I know but I keep reminding myself the starting point only !

New Year new me...

I can not beleive that I have the bloody winter sickness bug again.

Let's assume you go out and buy two rolls of paper towels, each with only 84 sheets on it. You put one aside, and keep it for future reference (it will be your "before" picture.) The other represents you (I'll call your Paper Towel You, "Ed.") The cardboard core represents the lean Ed. The towels represent the fat that is covering the lean Ed. For the sake of argument, let's say that Ed wants to lose 21 pounds of fat, so (84/21) each sheet represents a quarter-pound of fat lost. Let's also assume that Ed loses his fat equally during each of 84 days (1 for each paper towel sheet.)

Each day during the first week, you tear a sheet off of Ed, representing the fat he has lost for the day. Next, you put Ed next to the untouched full roll ("Big Ed") for comparison (that's why you need 2 rolls.) No noticeable difference! Even at the end of the week! This can't be working for me, say you!

But, being a good Ed, you continue to follow your diet plan, your new way of life. At the end of weeks two and three, you continue to compare Ed to Big Ed, and still notice very little difference.

But Ed is determined! He works hard! Three more weeks go by, the sheets peeling off day after day, before Ed gets up the courage to stand next to Big Ed again. Holy Nonfat Cottage Cheese! Ed is skinny! Ok, not skinny, but less huge!

By the end of 12 weeks, Ed is down to his lean dream, or somewhere near it or on the way to it. Ed is happy. We are happy. Big Ed - well, he's not so happy.

The lesson to be learned is that fat, like paper towels, comes off in sheets. When you are heavy, you are big around. And when you are big around, that fat is spread over a MUCH larger area - just like that outside towel sheet. The closer you get to the lean you, the more each lost pound of fat shows, because it is spread over a smaller area.

While the outside sheet may only cover 1 layer of the roll, the inside sheet may go around 4 times! That last sheet looks like it gives you 4 times the results of the first sheet, but in reality, the results are the same -- your perception is just different! And you'll never see the inside, if you aren't patient while the outside is coming off."

and so far I have had 2 slices of mamalade on toast and 1/2 a packet of pringles!  I am so bad and soooooo bored.

Thats it! I must get some steps and some housework donehopefully that will burn off some of my excess so far.

I have promised my self that this time I will be honest with my self no matter how bad or how painfull.

I will catch up later.....