Hope you had a good one! Hope you’re all over your hangovers by now.. it’s been a few days lol.

If you’re serious about weightloss, now’s the time to talk to your family about it. There’s no need to rave on and on about it all the time. But sit down with them, or mention it in passing, that you’re trying to lose weight and will need to change your eating habits. If you’re the one who does the shopping, just warning them that all those yummy naughty foods won’t be coming in the next cart. If you’re not the one who’s shopping, it’s a good idea to let the shopper know that you need them to buy you certain foods and to avoid certain other foods.  Also, when having dessert - maybe try to push that others eat what you’re eating. Trust me, it’s hard to sit there eating grapes and other fruits (as much as I love grapes) while everyone else is sitting there eating away at ice cream or pudding or cake.

STAY AWAY: from white bread. Nutritionists (my mother inclusive) have been nagging for people on a weightloss plan to stay off white bread and get onto wholemeal. If you like white bread too much, try multi-grain for part of the transition. Also stay away from refined sugar and meals full of sugar.

Try not to have too many carbs at night because your body doesn’t need them and won’t burn them of by the time you go to bed. Although the body does burn calories while you sleep, it won’t start with the bread.

Get plenty of sleep. I don’t mean oversleep. But if your body (not an alarm clock or the kids or someone boiling a kettle) wakes you up because it’s had enough sleep, it’s time to get up!

My birthday’s tomorrow, let’s see how well I go with my diet haha. It’s still not an excuse for letting the tastebuds fly lol.  Seafood dinner at night (can never get enough seafood) and some tennis during the day to even it out. By the way - if you’re going to exercise, make sure you enjoy what you’re doing. If you like swimming, squash, tennis, rowing etc, do it!