The WW Foodie

Greetings, blog friends, from the Big Apple!  I write to you from a hotel room which contains little other than a very large television and ...

Me: Happy Christmas random friendly type!  Did you have a good day? RFT: Lovely thanks. Me: Bodyweight in turkey, cheese and chocolate c...

Although the blog entries for this time last year sound quite cheery, I wasn’t really a very happy camper. A bit like a Primark Christmas j...

  Goodness.  We used some of our home made corned beef for a hash this evening and it was ever so, ever so good.  It was the kind of g...

Weeks 1-11: -27 lbs This week: -2lbs Total loss: 29lbs Two stone achieved plus a pound for luck – and the half case of fizz is mine! Mwah...

Best corned beef sandwich EVER... Corned beef and pickle sandwiches were an absolute staple in my household when I was growing up.  OK y...

Weeks 1-10: -24.5lbs This week: -2.5lbs Total loss: 27lbs D promised me half a case of fizz if I managed to lose two stone by Christmas. He ...

Yesterday I went into a changing room and tried on some items of clothing. Pauses while majority of readers think "???!??" and ...

Restaurant Story is, D informed me as we walk from London Bridge station, on the site of a former public convenience.  We debate using scato...

Sigh.  Yet again food photography that makes perfectly decent meals look like....well, slightly nondescript plates full of goo.  Perhaps ...

If I have to diet (and, sadly, I do) then I want to do so it a way that doesn't make me miserable.  Or, in a way that makes me as un-mis...

Saltaire and a December sky Weeks 1-9: -22lbs This week: -2.5lbs Total loss: 24.5lbs I'm on a pre-holiday roll people!  Which is l...

Weeks 1-8: -20lbs This week: -2lbs Total loss: 22lbs It feels not a little ironic to be writing a post about more success having just poli...

Pork belly is a very serious business.  When cooked properly, I think it is one of the tastiest cuts of meats there is.  I love the contrast...

I may have kept on top of the diet and the blogging this month but I can't help thinking that the list of blog post titles, alternatin...

Weeks 1-7: -17.5lbs This week: -2.5lbs Total loss: 20lbs Another solid loss this week – hurrah! I wanted to get a good result as this was t...

This weekend reminded me of why I love Weight Watchers and also why it can be a right royal pain in the behind. The positives first: th...

Purnell’s is not a restaurant that I ever had particularly on my radar - chiefly because it is in Birmingham and I am not.   But, D, much...

Weeks 1-6: -14.5lbs This week: -3lbs Total loss: -17.5lbs And this just in - Friday night fish and chips conducive to weight loss! Early ...

I was sitting writing up the plan (in my special meal plan fridge notebook, natch) yesterday morning when caught D looking at me with an amu...

Weeks 1-5 : -14 lbs This week : -0.5 lbs Total loss : -14.5 lbs After weeks of big losses, when I saw the number on the scales tonight I...

I’d love to preface this post with some beautiful shots of a freshly roasted chicken, perhaps some artfully strewn herb sprigs, a potato or ...

Happy Monday everyone! There is something of a dearth of actual cooking in the meal plan this week owing to a couple of cultural interludes,...

I was pondering the other week whether or not I should write a post for Future Me to read when (as inevitably happen) it all goes off the bo...

Reason #1 - another 4lbs off at weigh in this week. That's a stone in 4 weeks. I'm quite shocked by it really, I think all I managed...