Quick...

What should I be doing? Going for a walk. What am I doing? Dallying on the computer. OK, the alarm went off at 6am, but I've usefully (um) employed the time since then to read the latest Romantic Homes magazine, finish all the relevant chapters of the diabetes handbook I bought on the weekend, whizz through half of Simple Scrapbooks magazine...

I think it's called procrastination. Always been one of my gifts.

But now I'm dressed and ready to go, there are plenty of podcasts on the mp3 player (several Lake Wobegons, hurrah!) and all I need to do is collect my water bottle, the player, the gloves (it's winter and cold enough to need them) and the door keys and go.

Oh, and get off the computer.

But let me just tell you, first, that it's been a week. One heck of a rollercoaster week, particularly emotionally. With food, though, almost all the time (3 lapses) I've been very disciplined. Despite, I have to tell you, temptation (I didn't touch the home made scones with jam and cream on Monday, but oh I wanted to!).

I'll talk later about the food pattern I'm in (dietitian appointment is still a fortnight away, the earliest I could get), but it seems OK with the handbook's suggestions and works in terms of what I like to eat (well, not everything. Chocolate, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!).

Numbers:
On the scales this morning, 111kg (244lb).

I know you lose more weight in the first week of any diet. I'm NOT crash dieting, or doing anything that I'm aware is stupid. Fruit and veg, low GI carbs, sensible regular healthy eating. A walk almost every day (occasionally life gets in the way).

But it's encouraging. 4kg gone. About 50kg to go.

Going for that walk now. Then breakfast: a bowl of All Bran with a banana and Boost milk (low fat, high calcium).