Day One!

Right - I am now officially on Lighter Life! Woop woop! It has been a very long three and a half weeks of waiting to start, and now I am here I am wondering what the hell I have let myself in for!! Ha ha. I love food!!! (Err... vicious cycle!)

SO - I have had my first shake for breakfast (vanilla, mixed with coffee and ice) and am about to have a bath and then a soup for lunch. I didn't wake up until about 11am because I was talking to Miguel until 5am (oops! The joy of mixed time zone love!)... so I am now trying to work out how to schedule my day's foodpacks. It should be easier from tomorrow when I am back at work... one before work... one at lunch time... one when i get back from work and one before bed.... makes it nice and simple! :o)

I am so so excited about starting to see changes. I have been on the Minimins forum this morning looking over all of the before and after photos and I just can't believe that I am a 'before' as I sit here now. What will the 'after' look like??? It is so cool! I can barely remember a time when I was smaller than a size 16... I did lose quite a lot of weight on Atkins about 5/6 years ago - and I know I had a pair of Topshop jeans (major milestone!), but I don't remember how it 'felt' to be slim - and (annoyingly) I've got no photos from back then. At that point I had got down to 11st7lbs... and this time I am aiming for 10. I was ok at 11, but I really want to see what I look like/feel when I have no worries about a wobbly bum etc. Plus I am going to aim that little bit lighter, so I give myself room to put up to one stone after I come off.

Ok - my bath is ready, so I am going to go and have a soak and read my book. :o)

I'll check in a bit later after another LL 'meal' or two... I might check out the vegetable soup next, ooooh, I hope I like it! :o)

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I am back! It is now 7pm and I have had three of my foodpacks for the day. For lunch I had a chicken soup - it was absolutely revolting! Lol. It tasted really powdery - so I hope that it gets better with further mixing - I was literally gagging with each mouthful. :o( Nevermind - I got through it and then made a Thai Chilli poppadom for my dinner. Also pretty nasty, but not as bad, at least I managed to eat it without feeling really sick! So far the Vanilla shake was the best - but I will try each flavour before I make a decision on what to do in future weeks. I am hoping that I will be able to swap some of the chicken soups I've got at my pop in meeting on Wednesday... not sure I can stomach three more this week :o(

I am going to have a hot chocolate tonight - I hope it is chocolatey!! :o)

So, all in all, not too bad for a first day... the worst is done... i've just got to keep going now. Wish me luck!!