Grumpy Monday - Day Five.

**adopts a strong New'astle accent** "Dayyyyyy Fiiive in the Lighter Life Howwwse. Wytchy is is in the garden. Sulking!!"

This product is gorgeous - and I see that they have made a range especially with me in mind.

<~~~ Grumpy Cow!!

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Harumph!!

I'm typing this with my arms folded, my nose in the air and big pout on. Yes people, I am officially "in a STROP"!

Still not hungry. But BORED!!! BORED BLOODY WITLESS OF SOUP! I hate the stuff in real life and would run down the street away from it usually. I think I may be sticking to the shakes from here on in.

I hate the feeling I have in my mouth that seems like I have a dead rat lodged somewhere under me tonsils.

I hated going in to the supermarket today to get stuff for the family and being assaulted by freshly baked breadsticks. Even the salad looked appetising. God I'd kill for a bit of iceberg right now!!

ENOUGH!!! Ok that's all the negatives out of the way.

It's a blip. We shall over come and all that. I'm over it. (nearly). It's Monday evening and I have two days until weigh in. I've managed FIVE whole days now and really - it hasn't been that bad at all. Perhaps it's cos I'm PMTing that I just feel a bit down. We shall see.

In accordance with my stroppy mood, the "Five Things" thing today will be "Five Things Which Hack Me Off About Being Overweight".

1. People who say in that lovely patronising way that makes me want to slap em - "oh you've got such a lovely face" which is really another way of saying - "if only you weren't so fat"!!

2. People who say "Oh you're looking really well" when they really mean - "God aren't you fat?!"

3. Evans fashions which are styled for skinnies but in tent sizes and look bliddy awful. I mean come on designers - Hotpants? In a Size Thirty? That's not bloody liberating it's just obscene!

4. Seeing an advert on telly for, ahem, "Anti Chafing Powder" and agreeing with everyone else who goes "EWWWWWW" whilst secretly thinking - "what a bloody good idea"!!!

5. Not possessing one bra which doesn't look like a carrying device for two bowling balls.

Just call me a grumpy old cow.

OI !!! I HEARD THAT!!!

In Which I Begin My Journey to Lighter Life.

Ooo-er. My first post!


I feel I must warn you that it's going to be a bit eclectic, is this here blog. As well as logging down my personal weight loss journey via the Lighter Life programme, then it will be my place to share photographs, thoughts, feelings, ideas, my love of anything pagan, recipes, cooking, reading, music, crafting, nature, appreciation of the great British Countryside and, I must additionally warn you, there is very likely to be occasional reference to..... **looks around** "Take That".

So there.


So, here I am then - four short days until my abstinence programme begins. It's a very odd feeling I'm having right now. I'm not apprehensive - actually I'm really looking forward to starting and feel a little 'in limbo' - I just want to start the plan. Usually with a diet d-day looming so closely, I'd have been eating my way around the fridge and would already have had several "last suppers!".

Unusually I've been looking at food today rather indifferently which is very unlike me. That, however, hasn't stopped me from eating a full English grill this morning for brunch, several mugs of tea and, more recently, a rather disgusterous choccie fairy cake made from a packet which was going cheap (no not literally, *sigh*) in a discount supermarket. It's content professes to be 'gluten and wheat free' however in that gluten and wheat removal process they also appear to have extracted any flavour at the same time.

But I digress.

There are 16 weeks until Christmas apparently and oddly enough - 16 weeks of the initial plan too.

It's a sign I tell you!!