day 1

well day one is nearly over and i am pretty pleased with myself. i have been counting my calories and took a walk into town with the pushchair. the walk is a round trip of approximately 40 minutes plus the extra wandering aimlessly around the shops looking at things i cant afford to buy. i checked on the internet and apparently the average womans daily calorie intake is 1940 and i have so far eaten my way through 920. That is a thousand less and i am not even hungry!

the first thing i thought of was having a celebratory glass of wine and then realised that would kind of defeat the whole object! duh! then i thought if i was thinking about having a drink already and it was only the first day, this was going to be hard! im no alcoholic but a couple of glasses of wine after the baby has gone to bed has become more than habit. its the law!

all i have to keep telling myself that this has to be done. not only for health reasons but social ones too. i want to get my pencil skirt and silver top out from hibernation and show off my sexy legs as they used to be! maybe a little egotistical but that's what i want! and i am going to get it!

i have made the soup and its errrrm ok. i really need to find some way of getting some extra flavour in there without adding any calories. its the hot tomatoes i don't like and they dominate the overall taste of the soup. hmmmmmmmmm better sort that out as its what im supposed to be using as a tummy filler.

so far today i have eaten:

breakfast: 2 slices of toast with 2 cups of tea
lunch: 1 chicken breast with boiled rice and cauliflower/broccoli florets
snack: 2 pieces of wholemeal toast and a packet of quavers
dinner: my veggie soup

not very exciting but its going to be sooooooooooooo worth it!