Okay, confession time….I totally blew out the diet on Sunday. I had a day off because I got really depressed when I jumped on the scales and found I had lost ……ZILCH!

So I am still weighing in at 10 stone (140 pounds). I am not going to estimate calories any more, its going to be exact and I am going to stick to 1,100 calories a day plus any exercise calories I have burnt if I am still hungry.  If I can lose 2lb’s a week I will there in no time.

Breakfast – 1 coffee with milk and one sugar, half a large can of Grapefruit, 1/3rd of a large pot of natural low fat vanilla yougart, 1 teaspoon of sugar (300 calories)

Lunch – 40 grams of pasta, 1 leek, 1/3 can of sweetcorn, 100 grams of tomato and chilli pasta sauce, 1 satsuma (344 calories)

Snack – 1/2 low fat strawberry mousse and 1/2 a special K bar (69 calories)

Dinner – 1 Asda Chicken noodle slimmer soup (96 calories), 1 poached egg (73 calories), 1 small baked potato (130 calories), 1/2 can of mushrooms (9 calories), broccolli florets x 3 (24 calories), 1 ham, chicken and sweetcorn pancake (100 calories)

TOTAL CALORIES: 1,145

EXERCISE CALORIES: 155

Oooooo, weigh in day tomorrow!

Breakfast – None…just wasn’t hungry this morning (naughty, I know!)

Snack – 1 cup of coffee with milk and 1 sugar and 1 satsuma (100 calories)

Lunch – sausage and potato caserole (home made – 350 calories)

Snack – 1 cup of coffee with milk and 1 sugar and 1 satsuma (100 calories)

Dinner – christmas vegkey pasta with extra veg (it was just so yummy yesterday and only 400 calories!)

Exercise calories – tbc

Breakfast – 1 slice of toast with margerine, 1 cup of coffee with 1 sugar and milk. (150 calories)

Lunch - Asda Good or you Chicken and Broccoli Pie (311 calories) 

Snack – 1 banana and 2 chocolate biscuits 1 cup of coffee, milk no sugar (260 calories)

Dinner – Christmas vegkey pasta  – see toddler recipes (400 calories)

Total – 1,130 calories

Exercise calories – 225 calories burnt.

As a first time mum of 1 and ttc number 2, there are a few things I would like to change this year. I want to come out of the other end of 2009 feeling like a mum instead of  trying to feel the way I used to feel before I had kids. Pining for those size 8 tops and skinny jeans to fit me again; remembering the admiring glances that always came my way from the opposite sex. How many stolen minutes have I wasted in front of the mirror, pinching in my waist line or glancing at a pre-baby photo of myself? Tracing the silvery lines on my, now dimpled, thighs and feeling slightly less attractive, less deserving of my partners love and affection. I want to allow myself to overflow with love for my babies and their daddy, feeling proud of what I have and never feeling remorse for the body or the lifestyle I left behind - and this is how I plan on doing it in 2009…The Year of The Mom.

1). I will use my baby’s nap’s as “me time” and not “housework time”, to read a book, to take a shower, to have a nap…to do whatever I need to do.

2). Every Sunday afternoon I shall retire to the bathroom for 2 hours and shower, shave, pluck, brush, tan and manicure to my heart’s content. That way I will feel a little more attractive and a little less dishevelled each week.

3). Each time I look at my love handles or silvery stretchmarks I shall remind myself that a body is meant to be used. What good is a perfect size 8 figure when your dead? May as well get some miles out of this vehicle!

4). I will keep a stash of luxury cookies in the top cupboard where no-one will see them and I shall reward myself with one whenever I see fit.

5). Each morning, before I take one step out of my bedroom door, I’ll get myself dressed, hair brushed, make-up on, feeling ready to start the day.

6). After a stresful day with the sproglet, I will no longer turn to a bottle of wine and snacks for comfort – I will find comort in the arms of my partner, snuggled up on the sofa together.

7). Never again will I feel pressured to take part in the fashion show that is baby and toddler groups. I will not join in the competition of who can look their best, full face of make up, fashionable clothes, uncomfortable shoes. Instead I will put on my joggers and t-shirt and get down on the floor with my baby and take part in his adventure!

8). For 1 evening each week, I will go to an exercise class, where I can get fit, meet new people and spend an evening just being me – not mum, not housewife, just me! 

If I can keep these things up this year I will be much happier, you know what they say….If mum’s happy, everyone’s happy

This is 2009 – The Year of the Mum.

I’m always getting the munchies late in the evening so  I am trying a new tactic today. I had breakfast at 10:30am, much later than usual and hopefully that will have a knock on effect with my other meals. In theory I will eat my dinner at about 8pm tonight so I won’t have time for munchies! Lets see if it works…

Breakfast – 1 slice of toast with margerine, 5 Carrs melts crackers, 1 cup of coffee with 1 sugar (250 calories)

Snack - 1 banana, 1 satsuma and 1 cup of tea, milk, no sugar (120 calories)

Lunch - Sainsburys Macaroni pasta in a cheese sauce (1/2 a packet) and extra cauliflour (350 calories)

Snack – 1/2 a can of Heinz Tomato Soup (113 calories)

Dinner – 200grams of Sainsbury’s be good to yourself oven chips, 1 sausage and peas with a squidge of tomato sauce (360 calories)

Total – 1,190 calories

Exercise calories – 150 calories burnt