Well, this isn’t going to be much of a blog at all because so far – nothing’s happened. But I’ll tell you this for free: I’m not going to go on a diet. No way. Been there, done that.

Actually, I emailed Jon Gabriel when I did the first blog on this site, just to let him know that I’m doing it and make sure it’s okay with him that I’m mentioning his book. He sent me back a couple of emails and I have to say he sounds like a really nice person. He also sent me this link: http://www.jongabriel.com/pdfs/Whydietsdont.pdf which is, okay, a bit of an ad for his book, but I don’t mind that. It also states very clearly why I won’t be going on a diet this time or ever. Because diets don’t work and there’s a very good physiological reason for this. I like it when things get explained to m.

I told Jon I didn’t believe his testimonials. Not that I think he’s telling porkies or anything, it’s just part of my skeptical nature. I am, in truth, a bit of a Fox Mulder: I want to believe. Really, I would totally love it if this blog turns into another testimonial to Jon’s method. If it doesn’t, then I’ll just have to say that it didn’t work for me. It’s good when these things work for others, I just want me to be the winner this time. Who knows, maybe he’ll finish up with two Amandas from Melbourne who have lost fabulous amounts of weight.

Well, I’ve been up for hours now, procrastinating on the computer as I avoid going on the treadmill. Really must do that now. Then I get some breakfast.

I’m trying to go on the tready every day. I only do 20 minutes but it’s interval training which I got from a book by Bill Phillips I never did get the utterly brilliant transformation as promised by Body For Life (gee, you’d never guess, huh?) but that’s mainly because I’m not interested in spending my entire life living on a diet of protein bars and whey shakes. Funny about that. Just not my style, although the pictures of the amazing changes people have made are fabulous and inspiring. – sorry, I did put in links to these pages, but they hijacked my whole browser so I took them out. You can find them if you just go bodyforlife and billphillips in your address window.

Okay. Now I’m going. I have a treadmill to abuse. I have breakfast (sheesh, it’s nearly lunch time!) to consume. I have a postie to wait for.

I wish this picture of me was more inspiring. I spoil my own good times by being so fat. It’s from 9th of Feb, and Rebecca (middle) and Rachel (right) were the actor and director of my very first play.