Breakfast - Toast, jam, no spread
Lunch - Waitrose low fat tuna sandwich, low fat yogurt, orange juice
Dinner - Low fat burgers - yum!

So, those size 22 trousers? Maybe in a few weeks...... But on the plus side, a different style of size 24's DID fit when before they didn't!

• Breakfast - Sainsbury's Shredded Wheats
• Lunch - Waitrose Couscous and veg salad, yogurt, dried apple slices.
• Dinner - Chicken breast, rice, veg and Hoi Sin sauce.
• Pudding - WW yogurt

In Five Years Time!

I might not know you!

Or in five years I may remember that I once started a blog and thought now's the time to start it up again!

The idea being this time not to just waffle on about anything, but to write about my weight loss journey, specifically what I eat to hopefully inspire others to try out some different healthy meals.

As I write I am three and a half months in, and a stone and a half lighter. Not bad considering I stopped for a fortnight in August on holiday, and again for my birthday weekend a fortnight ago.

This is the photo that made me go to the doctors to get prescribed Orlistat. An impressive almost 20 stone! *sigh*

But good news, yesterday I bought myself a new top, size 22 not 24, and tomorrow I will hopefully be wearing my old size 22 trousers to work instead of the size 24s!

I plan on ending each blog entry with what I ate each day, and maybe weekly or fortnightly with a weight loss. So today...

• Breakfast - Bacon baguette (granary), no spread, bacon grilled, and every single mm of fat cut off it.
• Lunch - Ryvita with v v light Philadelphia and Waitrose apple and walnut chutney. WW yogurt.
• Dinner - Slow roast pork (no fatty bits), broccoli and roast potatoes made with spraylight.
• Pudding - Tescos Healthy range chocolate mousse (yup, it's within the rules!)

Woo hoo for the snow!

So last night it started snowing, but I didn't realise till this morning quite how much there was going to be! I got up and ready for work as usual, thinking that once I was out of my quiet side street in the car, the main roads would be fine and I would get to school. As I was shoving mounds of snow off my car, Rachel called me back in, work was on the phone - school has closed! Hurrah!So Rachel and I wrapped up warm and headed for the park, we were building our snowman by 8am! It was absolutely beautiful, I haven't seen snow as deep as this in the UK ever! Its 2pm now and still snowing, I feel like I'm in the Alps!

We are very proud of our snowman, and so were passers by, they kept asking to have their photo taken with him!

The amazing night sky

Yesterday Rob and I went to the observatory at Hertmonceax. The telescopes there are the original ones from the Greenwich Observatory - relocated in WW2 to avoid the bombing. They were never returned, due to the light pollution in London rendering them pretty useless there.

I was very excited, having never seen anything through a telescope of note, the moon twice its size as seen by the naked eye hardly counts! So when, in the first dome, we looked through the telescope and saw Venus, I was suitably impressed! Here she is, just like I saw her....

The next dome had a telescope pointing at the moon.....despite it being quite a hazy sky it still looked a bit like this....How cool are those craters close up!

The next dome had the most impressive sight of all, we were lucky enough to be there just as some researchers were looking at Orions Nebula. Of course I had no idea what this was, but it sounded impressive! I looked through and saw something a bit like this....

I could see a line of 3 stars to the left, and was told I was looking at Orions dagger. I know Orion, and thought it was a not so powerful telescope, and I was seeing the dagger which I could have seen with the naked eye. Oh no, how very wrong I was! In fact, the haze I was looking at is just the middle of the three stars which make up the dagger! Look at this picture to see the one I mean, its the red one in the middle of the dagger....

A Nebula is the birth of a star, I'm not sure how it works, but I'm guessing (probably incorrectly) that at the moment the middle star isn't actually a star, but a cluster of stars, including some nebulas about to become stars. Or something like that.

To finish off, here is a pic Rob sent me of the Orion Nebula, seen on a much more powerful telescope, showing off its beautiful colours in all their glory.

Cute ol' Tig

I had some animal rescue programme on the other day, with a tiny kitten meowing pitifully. I chuckled lots when Tig came running in to the room, straight up to the telly, carefully watching the poor little mite! Aaaah, Tig isn't all bad, I guess its only humans she hates?

2009!

Ah hah! So 2009 is here, and its soon back to work. Boo hoo! We finally sorted out NYE, by opening our doors to all our other disorganised friends we managed 6 of us! Just about enough to gather in a circle, arms crossed, to sing 'Auld Langsine' at Midnight. Hmmmmm, that is no way spelt right, but how on earth DO you spell it? Answers on a postcard....

So thank you to Rachel, Michael, Richard, Pete and Jacquetta, for making NYE 2009 such a lovely evening.