Mrs T’s Weight Loss Challenge

Firstly, belated Christmas Greetings and my very best wishes for a Healthy and Happy New Year to you all.

So you want the good news or the bad news first?

Okay, so bad news is more interesting, so let’s get that done with first…

Over Christmas I had a tummy bug. I’ll try to put this diplomatically without offending those of you with delicate sensibilities….well you know the post I wrote here about being caught short. Well it was kinda like that – only on Christmas Day and I was just about to sit down for my roast turkey!

Now it could have been worse – I could have got the squits AND run out of loo roll. But I didn’t. Hoorah!

Anyway, do you want some more bad news?

Yesterday, I started yet another diet. Groan. However, being the eternal optimist hopefully I will have more success than my Hot Dish Diet and my Mad Axeman Diet.

Yes, that’s means Dear Readers you will be subjected to hideous accounts of my periodic starvation followed by even more hideous accounts of my self indulgent gorging. However, the good news is this diet will only last precisely 26 days as later in the month I am off for a family wedding – which is why I need to shift the excess pounds. Now my goal is 14lb. That’s a stone or about 6.35kilos (for those of you under 40 who have no idea what I’m talking about.)

Now my first weigh-in was yesterday morning. I expected bad news and boy did I get it. I know, I know, I should have weighed less having had the runs but I encountered a small problem – or 6 – as the boys got 6 tins of chocolates between them for Christmas – and naturally I had to eat all the chocolates they didn’t like- except the strawberry and orange creams which I shall be donating to the Women’s Institute. I might even decorate a bra with them in the upcoming W I “Decorate a Bra Competition.” (I’m not kidding folks there really is such a competition – and believe me I have some seriously good ideas which I may inflict on you in due course. By the way, just in case you are concerned, I will not be posting pictures of myself in a bra decorated with applique patches of Daniel Craig.)

Now I can hear some of you folks out there saying 14lbs in 26 days is a totally unrealistic and unnatural target and to do that Mrs T would have to become bulimic. Now let me say that there is absolutely no chance of me sticking my fingers down my throat – I mean why would you when you can use a spoon? No seriously, I just like to set myself big targets. There’s psychology involved in this – which I could explain but basically it would be far too long winded and boring so let’s just say I’m nuts and let’s see how it goes.

Okay for anyone whose interested I will be following the basic principles of the Dukan diet. I will, however, be upping the recommended exercise margin.

Right, I weighed in today, after just 1 day and I’m already 2lbs lighter. Onwards and upwards!

If any of you folks want to join me on this masochistic diet or perhaps share diet tips or dieting successes and failures with me then please do!

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Marie says:

4 January 2011 at 4:13 AM

While I think you are absolutely perfect just the way you are, I have no doubt you can do this. Without spoons or fingers. 🙂

Go Jane!!!

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Mrs A says:

4 January 2011 at 4:16 AM

I shall rejoin you Mrs T.

As soon as we have shifted the clementine cake, two further boxes of chocolates, the apple and mincemeat pie and oh lord the untouched Christmas Cake… Mr A will have to start taking that to work for elevenses I think.

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Jane Turley says:

5 January 2011 at 8:30 AM

Excellent Mrs A:) It always helps to have a companiin when such an arduous task must be undertaken. Good luck with the apple and mincemeat pie though!

Marie – Thanks for that vote of encouragement!

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