It has began

This is last week's picture from Turin that I couldn't upload. Look at the beautiful blue sky!

Today's weight : 15st 1½lbs
This week's loss: 3½lbs

So I have eventually started my diet! And yes I am calling it a diet. Blimey it hurts my ears when you all shout at me!! But listen. Firstly, it is about me losing weight. And secondly, that's the correct term to describe someone's eating e.g. The diet of a giraffe is leaves! (And he's not trying to lose weight). So I'm on a diet! Now I know nowadays we like to say 'it's not a diet, it's a healthy eating plan - for life.' I will admit I've said the exact same thing here, on my blog. If you go on a diet it implies you come off a diet, and that's when it all goes wrong and the weight goes back on. Diets don't work! But of course they do, otherwise how the hell do we lose the weight. I know for a fact that hoping and praying and wishing and crying does NOT work!

So....I've changed my mind. (I'm allowed to, it's my blog). I think that actually we do need to 'diet' to lose weight! We need to do whatever works for us. Less calories, Slimming World, Weight Watchers, Atkins, eating only eggs etc. etc. It's the maintaining stage that is the healthy eating for life bit. Lose the weight then the hard bit begins. I don't think you should eat only eggs as you'd probably be poorly but you can diet and eat good nutritious (and delicious) food. But it isn't the way we will eat forever. Dieting can be hard, I agree. But I believe the 'after we have become slim' is when we knuckle down and work out how to eat good food with the odd birthday cake, chocolate bar, binge drink thrown in - that's the eating for life bit.

I've been sticking to 800 calories daily since Monday. I forgot to weigh myself on Monday morning so the above loss is just from Tuesday. Very happy. So far I've found it fine. I have to admit that some of the calories have come from chocolate - in fact today 300 calories came from a cheeseburger (free from McDonald's so I wasn't going to say no ha ha ha). I'm enjoying my food and sticking to an eating window of about 9 hours. Want to stay on this for 2 weeks then I'll introduce one day of no calorie counting.

I used to think I was indecisive but now I'm not sure.