Rock your body

Voila. Moi.

ERGH.

As you can probably tell, I've really got the apple-thing going on. I like my legs and arms. My legs are actually pretty toned, though you can't tell from the hazy little Blackberry pics. It's just my MIDDLE. I'm hoping the belly will go with this no-alcohol thing - I used to have a fairly flat stomach before I came to uni, then I got a little beer pouch. But just generally, my entire middle needs work. I blacked out my face in the side pic as you could see a little too much of it.

I'd love to post pics of me as the mad hatter, but none of them have gone up on Facebook yet - at least, not the full-length ones of me. The only way I'd be able to get them is off Facebook too, and I dunno... I'm a bit funny about posting pictures of me that are CLEARLY me. So if someone who had seen me on that night, or has seen that photo, stumbled across this, they'd know it was me. It would be solid, rock-hard proof. I wouldn't be able to deny it. I hide my name, I hide what part of the country I'm from (I vaguely say North and South) - posting a picture is a huge deal for me, but not that many people have seen me in my underwear so they wouldn't even be able to clearly say "that's you." If I put a picture up of an outfit I've worn that's a photo of me on Facebook with my name tagged and my face clearly in it... the idea scares me. It's not just people would disapprove of what I'm doing food-wise, but I've spilled my feelings into this blog and I wouldn't want people to be able to associate that with me. So I'm cautious.

Shame, coz from what I remember, I looked pretty skinny in those photos.

Everyone's Lents seem really exciting, but the fact a lot of people are giving up meat is slightly worrying - when you get to a certain age, cutting out something like meat could be very dangerous for your body. I spoke to a woman at uni who did it and she nearly died, she had all sorts of gastric problems. Vegetarians can't suddenly incorporate meat into their diet (M accidentally had a bit of chicken once and her stomach was unsettled for the day) - when your bodies adjust to a certain way of eating, you have to kind of wean yourself into another way. Children tend to be ok, but it's harder for adults. I wanted to give up meat for Lent in honour of M until I heard all the horror stories - so if you're giving it up, I urge you, don't just suddenly cut it out! Wean yourself out.

It's my weigh-in tomorrow, and I'm not sure if I'll be at 9 stone 2. I'm praying! Fingers crossed. I don't feel like I've worked as hard as I could've, though. I was going to have a liquid fast today and I caved and got a sausage sarnie. Ugh! Those little slips are the stuff that make me keep the pounds on. Time to be getting them OFF.

At least I have pics of a before-and-after shot when I get skinny! Wahoooo.

I'm doing the 30 day song challenge on Facebook - each day you have to post a certain song on your Facebook depending on what it asks (i.e. Day 1 is post your favourite song.) I might do it on here too. My favourite song? Has to be Cry Me a River by Justin Timberlake. It never gets skipped on the iPod! Classic tuuuune.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mu8MrCR5pQ

Q x