WHO YA GONNA CALL?............FATBUSTERS!

Guess who's decided to become a little less cuddly.......Yep, me!
Little'un keeps telling me not to go on a diet as she loves me as I am.
She says I'm lovely, cuddly, soft and warm (makes me sound like an electric blanket!).

I've promised her I will not become stick thin (as if I could achieve that in a million years!) but will still keep enough on me for her cuddles. (Just a little less like 'Jabba the Hutt' and a bit more like 'Princess Leia' minus the hair bagels) So she has kindly allowed me to start a diet.

I got one of those excercise DVD's over the weekend. Phew!.. It tired me out just watching it. You never see these people as an overweight sweaty blob, struggling to excercise before their weight loss do you? It's always when they are thin, in full
make-up, with hair straight from the salon and they bounce about like three year olds without getting the slightest bit out of breath!. Grrrrr!

Going to give it a go though starting tomorrow when I've packed Little'un off to school (Yipeeeee!).
Got no chance when she is at home, can't even watch a DVD of my own when she's about! It's 'Barbie', 'Happy Feet', 'Over the Hedge' and all her Disney's, over and over and over!!! (She does allow me to watch 'Shrek' though).

We have already started going swimming every Sunday, as now Little'un can actually swim, It means I get to swim too, previously she would just spend the time climbing on me, clinging to me, jumping on me from the side of the pool and generally using me as a float.

My diet is one of those eDiets off the Net, looks pretty good and easy to follow, although not sure about some of the ingredients, who buys fennel, cashew nuts, pine nuts and seeds normally? Think I will be skipping those or replacing them with something else......like the budgie, cockatiel and guinea pig food!.

Hardest thing about trying to diet is having to cook differently for the rest of the family, (then again, I do that already) they wouldn't eat half the things on my diet sheet, not too bad with Little'un I suppose, I can add mash and beans with the main ingredient, but Neeza! If it isn't hot and spicy and with chips, he moans that he would rather have a takeaway. Although last night the rump steak with chinese vegetables went down rather well. I'll just stick chilli peppers in everything for him.

How people can eat those things I'll never know? Neeza will sit and chomp happily on a chilli pepper, sweating, sniffing and going red in the face yet at the same time, telling me he enjoys them!!!! He looks in pain to me!

Now and again he does the cooking, but quite often sneaks some into whatever he is cooking thinking I won't notice. Eleven years of marriage, him knowing I can't stand chilli, and he still puts it in meals. Needless to say, it just goes straight in the bin and I end up making me and Little'un a sandwich. Does he think I will suddenly start to like them????

Anyway, that's all for now, hope I have enough energy left after the DVD workouts to do more posts and I promise a brilliant pic of the new me eventually (if I can stick with it), fingers crossed (which also makes it extremely difficult to do posts on my blog!). Wish me luck.....LOTS OF IT!!!!!