Not doing so bad...

Hmm, this has been ok so far - just one teeny weeny nervous breakdown about it on tuesday night, which is about average for me. According to my scales (and lets face it, that is what I will be using all the time for this experiment!) I have dropped.....7lbs!!!

I always lose lots in the first week, and I know the 'experts' would say its just water but so what? Its stil 7lbs that I am not carrying around, and it has given me a boost, so I don't care, I feel like I have taken the first important step.

So what did I eat? Monday was a sachet of Oatso simple porridge, then multi seed pitta with peanut butter and lettuce for lunch, a few left over broad beans at tea and a quorn fillet with mushrooms and peppers, baked potato, broad beans and broccoli in the evening. Tuesday was a large slice of wholegrain toast and scrambled egg, a cottage cheese and salad wholegrain sandwich and rice with broccoli, sweetcorn, scrambled egg and quorn ham. This is where the breakdown came in, as I ate that at 6 ish and was hungry again at 8 and got into a right state thinking this was too hard, I was useless, etc, etc so I had two slices of cheese on toast. It was hardly the end of the world, and obviously hasn't affected anything. Wednesday was two weetabix and milk, then cheese on toast for lunch and a huge veg stirfry with peppers, mushrooms, broccoli, carrots and courgettes with rice in the evening.

The major thing for me has not been eating butter - i LOVE butter, and I can't just have a little bit, I have it spread thick so you can taste it! I can't be doing with this 'Have a little bit of what you fancy, you can still eat your fave things when dieting' - well, clearly not, as my fave things are thick butter, lots of cheese, potatoes, bread - if I carried on eating that, I would stay fat. I need to cut out some things, and I am adding LOTS more veg,which is no hardship as I love veg. I get a weekly veg box from Abel and Cole and I need to start using it fully, instead of hiding some of it in the fridge and then shamefully throwing it away a week later lol!

I've went swimming on tuesday, which must have burned a zillion calories. I took the girls, so I couldn't swim, but I did lots of running in the water carrying them, and jumping up and down holding them, and as together they weigh over 4 stone thats quite a weight training exercise

I've just worked out that if I am to lose 2 pounds per week, I will have shed ten stone by the end of august 2009, in 70 weeks time. I WILL do this.