Welcome to my blog!

Disclaimer: I am new to this and will accept all positive advice!

So…. who am I?

I am a proud mama to three beautiful girls, a wife; a business woman, a breast cancer survivor, a motherless mother and just plain fat….. okay that last bit is a tad brutal but oh so very true!

I have tried to lose weight so many times…. like every fat girl….. but here’s my issue…. I like food, it comforts me, it fulfils me (not in the good way!) I use it to suppress my emotions…. all my emotions and no diet, healthy eating plan or exercise regime can replace that….. or can it????????

I have used food as a comfort since 1980….. the year my parents sent me to boarding school….. not the fabulous experience of the Enid Blyton books….. of that you can be sure. Don’t get me wrong I met and still talk with many lovely girls but I was so homesick and hated being away from my parents….. and so started my addiction to food as a comfort to all that ails me, makes me happy. frustrates or angers me or just plain relieves my boredom.

I am at my heaviest….. heavier than when I was pregnant with my third daughter…. who weighed in at a whopping 9lbs 11oz. I am almost 225 (224.6) over 16 stone….. horrendous, shocking…. sad.

So….. time to take responsibility, take stock and change my life…..and in doing so the lives of my girls….. this will be the story of my journey with the good, the bad and the ugly….. with some recipes, ideas and most probably comments on politics, family and all the glorious fun that life entails.