Day 3

Joy! - I now have two legit followers and judging from feedback some facebook followers as well, one of them being from Australia so you could say Ive gone International - most exciting! I have lost another 400grams so things seem to be working. I decided to change my exercise routine this morning, not only do I not want to get bored of doing the same thing , but I believe its good to switch things up and use different muscle groups. I must start doing more weight training, did you know that you burn more calories and speed up your metabolism for longer after weight training as apposed to cardio? Well its true - so I'm going to start introducing more weights.

My husband once told me that a good way to achieve ones goal is to visualise yourself down the road looking great in that outfit you've always wanted to wear. Sound advise indeed. I find this visualization very easy to do first thing in the morning when I'm feeling fresh and bullish, but come the late afternoon the lines of that visual start to blurr and I try and rationalise with myself that maybe the skinny jeans can be replaced with that baggy boyfriend jean look, and maybe I'm better off with a longer jacket instead of that cropped tailored one. Its at this point that it takes all the will in the world not to raid the kids lunch boxes left overs  and opt for a Green Tea instead. I wish I was a more natural tea and coffee drinker, most people drink several cups a day which I am sure fills you up. My parents - in law (who will remain nameless to protect their identities in the event of me becoming a famous Blogger) are prime examples of this. They are both in their seventies, although you could never tell, and live on a smallholding where they single handedly tend a vineyard, olive groves and a very grumpy and demanding horse called Harry, who if you don't feed on time will stroll into the kitchen and help himself to the fruit bowl or anything else accessible! Anyway back to the Tea, as you can imaging my parents-in law have to do quite a few activities throughout the day and each one of these ends with a ceremonial cup of  hot beverage, each one being different. I have heard my mother-in law ask for normal tea, green tea, double strength green tea some of them with honey and some not - I have even heard her requesting a combination of red and green tea! Now I know about green tea but I'm not sure if the red bit is actually red tea, or if its some other herbal blend that comes in a red box or has a red tag on the end of the bag and I am too embarrassed to ask for fear of showing my ignorance of tea to such gurus. The fact is my mother-in law looks twenty years younger than her age and I'm sure weighs about twelve kilos and since I only ever see her consume tea I'm going to pay more attention the next time I'm there!

I had two girlfriends over for midweek catch-up drinks last night and discovered that a' light- low alchahol' white wine is not going to kill me, on the contrary, its really rather pleasant and you can consume a whole lot more without hanging like a Bat the next morning. I also learnt that one bottle of 'light' wine equals only three points in Weight Watchers terms, which according to my friend, who sees Weight Watchers as a new religion, is very little indeed! I must say having chatted to both of them who are fabulously thin it does make some sense.

Having embarked on this blog I panicked a bit last night that I might wake up one day and not really have anything to say - thankfully that hasn't happened today so I'm going to sign off and read up on the mighty Weight Watchers! x