Just Gilly

  The smallest banana in the world!  I have to say it feels a little weird writing my blog without the weight element. It's quite liberating. My friend reminded me that she suggested I drop the weight loss bit months and months ago but I guess I just wasn't ready then. When I started my blog (4½ years ago) I honestly thought by posting a picture of all my wobbly body parts in my knickers that I'd be accountable to all my readers and the weight would fall off! Obviously that didn't happen and I soon realised my knicker shot looked exactly the same every week! It became apparent that my blog was more about how difficult it is, for me and many others, to actually lose weight and keep it off. I felt like I was speaking what everyone else was thinking - diets stink. More recently I think my blog became a hindrance to my weight loss but I was desperate not to let my readers down! I wanted to prove it could be possible to lose 5 stones and keep it off. Finally I've let it ...

Thank you to everyone who sent me messages, of encouragement or advice for my weight loss. In respect of my blog I also got messages of encouragement and advice. As you can see I'm starting at the beginning as, let's face it, my blog wasn't always about my weight loss - well I've not ultimately lost any weight lol! So this is just me. My views, my days, my thoughts, and hopefully some weight loss, eventually. I hope you like it. Let me know. Lastly I got a lovely message from a relative that simply said that my blog made her laugh, made her cry, and made her think! What more can I say?  You'll all be pleased to hear that yesterday it was cold enough for me to wear my new coat! So cold it was almost snowing (hail and slush). I was cosy as a bug. In fact after 10 mins walking I had to unzip it ha ha. And tomorrow it's forecast to be sunny and 10° crazy weather. I've been thinking about how much control we actually have over our own lives. We make decisions con...