Weight loss and Photographs

Last year I managed to loose 20lbs.

During January I kind of maintained a state of well, for want of a better word stasis. I'm still the same weight I was at the start of the year. This is *my* fault, and I'm starting February by trying to loose more weight.

My plan is simple. Exercise, eat well and make sure I take my tablets. I track calories on Spark People currently though I might be looking for a change soon.

I've bought a couple of new things today that should help us out.

This is a Zyliss hand held chopper.

Please excuse my messy side table. I'm in the process of tidying up, I promise! You pop what you want to chop in the bottom, press the handle down 2 or 3 times and voila, chopped veggies with very little hassle. I've got some Passion Fruit, Mango, Dragon Fruit and a Pomegranate sat in the fridge, the makings of a very nice fruit salad to take with me for snacks while I'm at Uni. This is after the choppers had it's first practice run with tea tonight, Chicken, Bacon and Mushroom Pasta, with the chicken and Mushrooms cooked on my brand new Griddle pan, Yummy! I hope to post some recipes here in the future too.

My new toy arrived in the post today! It's a Panasonic Lumix TZ-10 camera; I got 2 extra batteries to extend the life and a case to keep it nice and snug as my last camera had a problem with a line of dead pixels down the middle of the screen where it was dropped by an ex-flatmate.

I love it already. These are just a few shots I took while walking around Gloucester today. I've still got a few videos to watch with regards to how to work the manual modes on the camera but I hope to be showing a lot more photography work soon, and potentially a review of the camera. How useful that will be on a year old model is another question!

Next time I'll also have some knitting work to show as I finished the boyfriends socks! I currently have nothing on the needles which is a different approach for me. Must find something to cast on as soon as possible!

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