Week's End and a New Beginning

So the first week is finished. Started OK, continued fair and ended badly. Of course I knew it would - not really a fantastic time to start a diet when I had a 45th wedding anniversary party and Mother's Day to celebrate (especially as I knew there was going to be a hog roast at the party and I LOVE roast pork and crackling!). I suppose that the best thing would be to hope that I've not gained anything this week, but I am hoping that I was good enough earlier in the week to have still lost a pound. Tomorrow we shall find out. If not, a new week has started and I shall just have to buckle down and get serious.

Whilst I was in Spain, Jo told me about a diet book that she has been reading called Neris And India's Idiot-Proof Diet by India Knight and Neris Thomas. According to the blurb they lost 10 stone between them in a year - 5 stone each. It is apparently a proper diet for real women! What I found attractive was this part of the blurb:

So how is this book different from all the rest?'This is a diet book that tells you jokes, gives you genuinely delicious recipes, and lets you into our heads as well as our stomachs. This is a diet book for real people - people like us, with kids, jobs, dogs and the rest, who don’t have the time or the energy to cook themselves separate meals, or to sit miserably in the corner with a lettuce leaf. People who actually have a life, like going out, going to the pub - and who want to carry on with all of these things while dieting. Above all this is a diet book that started off from a place of love.

"We are so sick of women being made to feel terrible about the way they look. During our research, we came across a pile of diet books - many, though not all, written by middle-aged blokes - whose basic premise was 'You're a fat freak and you're killing yourself'. We start off with the premise that you're pretty fabulous, and that you're going to be even MORE fabulous when you slip into that tiny little dress you thought you'd never in a million years fit into. It's not about body fascism: we're not interested in dropping from a size 12 to a size 2. But from a 22 to a 14? Yes please.

This sounds like my sort of thing so I've ordered a copy. It may help to set me further on my way and give me some fantastic recipe ideas, it may just give me a laugh reading it, but it can't do any harm. In fact their weight loss works out at approximately 1.5lbs per week, which should be achievable, shouldn't it?

They also have a blog which is worth checking out, although I'm not sure I'm too happy about the domain name of it (as it seems to contradict what they've said in the above blurb). However, already it's put me onto a website for the most fantastic purple suede boots which would actually fit me ... if only I had the money to buy them *sigh*.