About Me

Hi folks, my name is Louise...and I'm a chocoholic chipaholic breadaholic foodaholic. Thanks for inviting me to the mega exclusive club to beat all mega exclusive clubs, I feel so honoured to be here in such wonderful company.  Please excuse my rubbish typing and frequent spelling mistakes British spelling...as long as I know what I mean, that's the important thing :)

Ok, so onto me, I have...ooooooh...about 100+ pounds to lose (ok more like 150...eek!) and I'm 2 weeks in to my healthy lifestyle. I've lost the grand sum of 2 pounds so far and I'm doing it with Weight Watchers. I've been successful-ish with WW before, having lost 80 pounds back in 2006. Unfortunately, after the death of 3 close relatives, moving house, writing a dissertation, finals exams at uni and getting a job, well all the weight went back on {insert sad face here}.

So why am I this size? Well I think I'm stuck in a vicious circle at the moment - I'm fat so I'm a couch potato and I'm a couch potato so I'm fat...you get the picture? Truth is I hate exercise (intensely) but I do love fruit and veg and basically most healthy foods. The problem is that I also like junk food, pop and biscuits *sigh*. I have sooooo many bad habits to kick that it's just not funny, but I've decided to try and kick them one bad habit at a time. So, 2 weeks ago I stopped drinking (or severely limited) the pop and for the last 2 weeks I've worked on making sure I cook a healthy nutritious meal at dinner time.

Making time to cook has been a BIG deal for me because, normally I am exhausted when I get home from work, so I have little energy for cooking. I work about 70 hours a week between the day job and the evening/weekend job but I've made more time for looking after myself by cutting back the amount of time that I spend making my graphics...which I still haven't come to terms with yet, but I know I have no choice. I need to take care of me for a change, I've neglected myself for way too long.

Ok well, I'll leave it there for now :)