My Start

On December the first I weighed 17 Stone, was a size 18 bordering on 20, and was becoming increasingly unhappy with my looks. So I started my crack down and within the first week I lost eight pounds. Since then I have lost about a stone and a half, and currently weigh 15 stone 8 pounds, I'm also now fitting into size 16 clothes. I don't have a 'target weight' but I have an idea of what I want to look like, and to wear a bikini in the summer and feel good in it would be brilliant.

Me in September 2011

So a few weeks ago I started to get bored and I felt my willpower dropping. Meals were becoming dull and repetitive, it became a pattern of weight watchers ready meals, soups and cereal. So I've started to experiment with anything I had in the cupboard and try different recipes online and from the numerous books we own at home.

                                                               Me in January 2012



My first experiment was BBC's Good Food Healthy egg and chips. It was an easy meal to cook, and turned out brilliantly. It was apparently only 10g of fat per portion, however me being a big foodie, I normally have large portions. Here are my pointers for the recipe:

• Use a little bit more oil if you like your potatoes crispy, it will be more fattening, but worth it.
• DEFINITELY parboil the potatoes before you put them in the oven, otherwise they will be way too hard!
• Add bits of smoked bacon into the pan when you add the mushrooms, for a bit more flavour
• It goes great with lea and perrins!!

And this is how it turned out! :D