Day 6

Breakfast: weetabix, half fat milk

Lunch: small bit of bread, chicken, mayo, stuffing, medium salad

Dinner: steak, small potato, salad, half fat milk, 2 glasses of white wine

Snacks: magnum, 40g 85% chocolate, frubes

Water: under 1l

Exercise: 20 min cycle

Day 5

Breakfast: porridge, half fat milk, orange juice

Lunch: chicken, mayo, stuffing on brown bread, packet of velvet crunch, 35g 70% dark chocolate
Dinner: home made burger, salad

Snacks: sesame sticks, frubes (2), can of tanora

Water: 1.5L

Exercise: 40 mins gym

Must get back on wagon!

Day 4

Breakfast: 2 wheetabix, 250ml half fat milk

Lunch: bit of a french stick (white bread), ham, 1 frubes

Dinner: home made burger with buns, medium potato, salad, melon

Snacks: red peanuts, packet of ripples, 1 frubes, 5 chocolate rice cakes, 3 chocolate biscuits. This all happened because I was just back from the gym, rovonous hungry and... was locked out so I went to the shop and went crazy. Very very bad me

Water: 1.5L

Exercise: gym for 40mins, cycling for 10mins

Day 3

Breakfast: porridge, full fat milk (although not as much as you're supposed to use because I don't like it wet), 250ml orange juice

Lunch: Chicken, stuffing, mayo on brown from Brannigans in town. Ate half of it before going for a swim, and the other half after.

Dinner: White rice and chicken curry. Didn't have that much as it was really spicy. 400ml half fat milk

Snacks: lots of red peanuts, 100g grapes, 2 frubes, a carrot, 40g 85% dark chocolate,

Exercise: 20 min cycle, 30 min swimming

Well that was great.

Back from the gym. "John" asked me some questions about my current fitness level and why I was joining the gym. Then I went on the following

Rowing Machine: 5 minutes, intensity 5

Cross Country: 15 minutes, intensity 5

Bicycle: 10 minutes, intensity 5/6

And that was the end of my cardio. Now I just have to wait til 9pm for dinner... tough.

Next session, Wednesday after the dentist

Before photos...

Oh holy bleugh

I took the before photos today, a side profile and frontal. I did my best to make it look as tv add-ish as possible. Big frown, bad hair, no make-up, bad posture, let everything out.

I noticed I have a lot of weight around my belly. Over the years that's where it's gone because it has never been this big before.

But I'm going to improve on this!

First ever gym session

Ok not quite. I have used the gym twice before, both times with Evanna and Caroline and that was crap. I had absolutely no idea what to do and no one ever really told me what to do.

So today, first real time. Fitness test at 4.30 and then hopefully the trainer will show me how to use the machines.

I'm sure I'll be nervous, especially since it looks like it's going to rain

Day 2

Following on from some suggestions made to me on http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055887138 yesterday I decided to have porridge for breakfast. I made it quite wet and I get a huge gagging reflex for wet porridge... I ate the dry stuff and as soon as I felt myself gagging I stopped. I ate about 3/4's of it.

Breakfast: porridge, 200ml half fat milk, 200ml orange juice

Lunch: chicken, stuffing, mayonaise, lettuce on brown bread from local Scallys Spar, 200ml half fat milk

Dinner: Steak, peas, carrots

Snacks: 35g almonds, 150g grapes, 3 pieces of white bread, 60g 70% chocolate (312 kcal)

Exercise: cycle in and out of town, cycle to Scallys, cycle to gym, total: 30 minutes

gym: 30 minutes

Day 1

Breakfast: Rice krispies, 300ml full fat milk

Lunch: 2 potato waffles, tomato ketchup

Dinner: Spaghetti carbonara

Snacks: 25g almonds, rice krispies with marshmallow bar, bread with chocolate spread (made me feel a tad ill after), banana, orange

Drinks: 250ml milk, 1.3L water, cup of tea (nothing additional)

Exercise: 20 minute cycle. I hate the uphills when you have no gears

70 minute brisk walk

Total Calories: 2019

I don't plan to calorie count every day. I don't want to get into that vicious cycle. Plan for tomorrow is to have porridge for breakfast and maybe a sandwich for lunch so that I can get through the gym

I got a huge craving for chocolate at about 7:30 just after dinner. I knew it was boredom eating so I decided to go for a walk. I felt bad I couldn't take the dog with me because the parents had locked her lead into the car

In The Beginning There Was...

Day 1.

I know my problem: overeating. Not on dinner and normal meals, but the in between meals, the 11pm "I feel peckish" times. That is what I want to stop.

I've joined the gym and plan to cycle there and back, and use that during the week alternating swimming and gym time. Then I plan 2 weekly to run around my area with the dog

Height: 5' 4"

Weight: 11 stone, 12 pounds

Waist: 39"

I start tomorrow with my exercise, I start today with my food.