Enough is Enough

I have been procrastinating starting my diet, not on purpose but you make plans for dinner with someone and I'll think 'I'll start the day after' then you realise something else is coming up so I'll wait till after that and then it's 3 weeks later and I've gotten nowhere.

So yesterday I decided enough is enough and I was starting tomorrow, a quick message to my friend to change dinner plans on Saturday to a movie night, went to bed with water instead of juice, bottles washed ready for tomorrow (well today as its 3am)

My first target to aim for is a family wedding in the middle of May which is 7 weeks away, I don't really know what a realistic target is on a VLCD but I'm hoping to be about 3 stone lighter. My overall goal is to be near target when my mum comes over to visit, it will be the first time i've seen her (in the flesh) in almost 2 years. I know she desperately wants me to lose weight and i'd like to make her proud for once in my life, we'll see that is a long time to set for a girl who can't stick to a diet for more than a few weeks.

I am going into this with a slightly different head though, after speaking my friend Shrinking Alice, she said something that really struck a chord with me, she is on Cambridge and doing amazingly well and so far lost well over 6 stone. She said she's treating food like an Alcoholic would treat alcohol and really that's what I'm going to do, I need to learn that I control the food not the other way round but that's going to be a long, tough lesson to learn.