Week one - 1.6kgs down

So I have to be happy with that, right?  And I've been far from perfect this week and I still managed to lose 1.6kgs.

Let's see how much better I get when I do behave myself this week.

And it all begins again...

Right.  Today is the first day of the rest of my life.  Or maybe yesterday was.  Because it was the day I began my healthy living regimen again!  

I've done this before.  I started in October when I'd given up drinking for a month.  Not the easiest month for me, but I was doing it to raise funds for a very close friend who had just been diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer.   Mixing the non-drinking with giving up everything that seemed fun to eat/drink worked well and I lost 8kgs.    Hurray for me!

Then came:
The end of Ocsober
The Good Food and Wine Show
A week in Fiji
Christmas parties
Christmas
New Years
My Brisbane Birthday
My Sydney Birthday
My friend passed away......
 And just about every other excuse that you could think of!

Yesterday I braved the scales again for the first time since my birthday and discovered I had put 4 of those kilos back on!   Not as bad as it could have been but certainly not where I wanted to be.  So now it is on - or more importantly off!   

So you've heard it here first - I solemnly swear to lose 20kgs before I head on my overseas trip on October 1st.   That's still 6 months away - totally do-able!  And if I lose more, even better!

So the rules for my friends are - support me, but please don't nag/judge me.  Nagging me serves only  to make me want to eat cupcakes!   And that's a temptation that is fair too great on the best of days!

Here we go.....