Summer Dieting

I'm on that diet again. The one where I hope to fit in to those clothes in time for my holiday! NO CHANCE! It's easier now that I've finished work for the summer - and there's strawberries to eat. Yes! I'm just about to eat a big bowl full, topped with a huge blob of fromage frais (fat free of course) and dripped with honey. I'll let you know the calories when I've worked it out! This is my 4th meal of the day on my self-imposed 6 meal-a-day-diet. Breakfast was only an apple, a fat-free yoghourt and a cup of tea - but that's just me being lazy - I can think of other options - just as long as each meal is under 200 calories. Boring? Well, sometimes - but not when the weight comes off - 1lb last week - but I did go out for a couple of meals and - ooops! - one of my late evening meals was a chocolate biscuit and a glass of red wine! More willpower needed here!

Willpower is also needed to get going on the exercise - 10,000 steps a day is, I read somewhere, supposed to be the answer to all our diet and health problems - well, I try, often. My pedometer keeps falling off - I nearly lost it down the toilet once - but I've got a system - I walk as much as possible all day - then in the evening- if it doesn't show at least 4 miles - I then go out for a long walk. It worked last year and I lost just under a stone - well, 12lbs actually - and managed to keep most of it off all winter. So, if I do the same every year, I may be at my target weight of somewhere under 10 stone in about 3 years - that's too long to wait for my BMI to get down under 25.

Now I'm going to get stuck in to those strawberries...