Wii Fit fooled me into it!

I've gone from 13st 10lb to 12st 12lb!!! Still working on it, but it has been a bit slow during this month. Have to get off the sugar again. Too many weekends away and family parties with too many gorgeous puddings. My weakness! Also, too many sicky bugs in our house, and I have to keep working myself back to healthiness before I can get back to my exercise. May try to get a cross trainer. Used one at my FIL's and loved it! I'm feeling that I need more challenging exercise now. Maybe getting hooked on the endorphines! I find running a problem because the air gives me asthma even if it is just a little bit cool when I'm running. Shame, as my DH runs in the peaks and it is beautiful up there. Staring at a wall and listening to crap radio wasn't quite the same!

The danger of letting it slip too far

A cautionary tale for me for the future. Although this eating plan of mine is really good in lots of ways, easy it ain't! It takes a lot of thought and planning, two things I didn't want to have to do when I took the kids on a short break recently. So I took a risk and more or less abandoned it for the time I was away. What harm could it do? Well, I think I've been reaping the whirlwind ever since. First it was a major downer the day after I got back, it just settled on me from a height and sat there immovable till it went away again. Then we decided to actually organise that splash party we'd been planning for weeks, but at the height of the preparations I came down with a horrible sore throat that turned to a painful earache overnight, so it had to be postponed. I can honestly say it's the first time I've been as ill as that since I started this eating plan. Properly ill that is, sitting on the couch in my nightie and dressing gown, groaning.
On the plus side I've got my bike! Yay! I'm a bit nervous about getting started with it as I've not ridden one regularly since my twenties, but there's a few byways round here to explore and I'm hoping the kids catch the bug. They love zooming round the garden on theirs but I've always been a bit anxious about them venturing onto the road. I'm just going to have to work out how to get all three of them out and about safely. Littlest is 4 but quite light, but even so she may be too heavy for me to manage in a kiddie seat on the back of mine. I'll have to see if I can borow one to try it out.
And dd2 is keen to try bellydancing with me. That could be a lot of fun! And we've been promising ourselves to join up at the local tiny gym at the village (use it or lose it) and see if they can tailor me some exercises and activities and stuff.

ok another go

ok so this was a view from the back , not bad , quite hate my pudgy shoulders but quite like my hair.
Ok this was the worse picture of the day, they we all are, off to have a lovely day out at Wistowheading around the maze at a steady pace with lovely weather, then we stopped for a breather and we took this pic, lovely family , with spare tyre mum sitting in the middle.

Ok so something has to give doesn't it, I can't hide anymore. But what to do? If I try dieting I think about food more and want to eat even more, because i can't then I want to.
going to try step by step - ok for the next week starting right now, I'm going to replace coffee and tea with lovely cold water - much less calories and maybe a start - the stop eating choc thing didn't get anywhere at all, in fact i'm eating more.
I can't believe how awful I look - it took a new camera, eugh how many inches? or rather tyres?