Over the last few days I have eaten cake, cookies, cheese cake, apple pie and letter sweets. That’s more ‘naughty’ foods than I had consumed probably since Christmas in total!

I hope it passes, or I can get my self control back on track otherwise I will be piling weight back on and I do not want that!

Pretty proud of myself about that, but I still have a way to go — another 1 stone at least before I am happy then another stone on top of that to get me to my ‘ideal’ weight. This week I am working out on my elliptical every day and doing an hour on Wii Fit each night, I would really like to get things moving faster!

You know what the absolute best diet pill is? Hard work. I tried a few natural metabolism booster type pills early on in my journey but ultimately decided they weren’t for me.

I know that often a change of routine is as good as any thing else. So I am going to try that first — work out in a different way at a different time and switch up my meals so that I am eating more earlier and less later.

I am looking forward to it actually and hopefully it will give me the boost that I need.

I enjoy my days off from working out, but only when they are preplanned ones — when they aren’t, even if I have a really good reason I still feel like a lazy bum.

You know, I never realised how much diet pills really cost because they are not something I ever really looked into before. Earlier I came across a review of a well advertised fat burner called Hydroxycut and I about fell over where I got to the part that said a bottle costs any where from $40 – $80, yowsers!

You’d be better off getting a cheap exercise bike or a few months at a gym for that in my opinion

I know that it’s just general body fluctuations and I am not really freaking out about it and reaching for the diet pills, but it is annoying, very very annoying.

I know it’ll come straight back off again and most importantly stay off though, so it’s all good…I just need a little more patience.

My face was always blotchy and spotty and rough to the touch, I don’t even think I realised how bad it was at the time.

Now with 5 stone less to carry around, the use of great creams and lotions and potions and a healthy diet my skin is glowing and smooth and much more what you would expect a 28 year olds skin to look like

It’s the first heart rate monitor I have ever owned, I assume that the battery has just gone but I am not sure because I don’t know how long they are meant to last — I have had that one for around 8 months.

I have ordered a new battery on eBay any way and will just have to go back to using the ellipticals at the gym in the meantime and use their built in calorie counters.

But it’s a good start, 1 pound in a week probably doesn’t sound like an awful lot to most people but I don’t take weight loss pills or go on fad diets and the like — I just count my calories and work out every day and I am notoriously slow at losing weight — I can go a month and only lose 1 pound, so to do it in a week is a good thing

Hopefully it’s the first of many in 2009!

It makes sense of course, I had mounds of icky fat surrounding my entire body, that’s bound to keep ya warm right? But it sure is difficult to get used to — and it’s not even really winter yet, though in the UK these days it’s hardly ever hot. It’s only the start of December and it already feels like February for my new slimmer body!

I LOVE it.

I don’t care if I am cold, uncomfortable and it’s difficult getting used to. I will take anything that reminds me I have lost a lot of weight.

So come on winter, I’m ready for ya!

Go me. Yay me. Go me. Yay me. *Jigs*

I was a smoker from the age of 12 – 25, 13 years as a smoker! Everyone nagged me to quit for years but I never wanted to, then when I started trying to lose weight and generally live a healthier life I decided to do it. I used the patches and tried to calm my cravings by sucking on lollipops! It wasn’t easy, I was really depressed for a few months, I put on 2 stone and although this sounds minor it drove me mad — I was constantly sooooo thirsty, no matter what I drank, no matter how much I drank I just couldn’t quench it!

I am rather proud of the fact that it was the fist time I had ever tried to quit and I succeeded