About Fat Mellie

Ok, I'm Mellie, 36 years old and getting fatter by the minute. I'm English and live in New Jersey USA. Despite the fact that people think all Americans are obese this isn't exactly true for all Americans. I live in the North East where people are very 'self conscious'. They are all (well a lot) very slim, go to the gym at least 3 times a week and eat very small healthy portions when they go to lunch. Afraid I'm not programmed that way. I eat what I want and count my exercise as walking the dog down the end of the road to take my daughter to the school bus. I need help.

I'm currently in England staying with family for 2 weeks. I'm reveling in English food. I miss fish and chips and decent curry so much. Roast dinner and bacon butties galore. I'm out of control. I'm too scared to weigh myself and even if I wanted to they have gone all metric since I left and I've no idea how many kilo's I'm supposed to be. This is a good excuse not to go near them.

So Wednesday 9th of September I am to start my diet. I will be back home in the US, hubby at work and daughter at school. I intend to take it easy to start with. Mostly because I'm a lazy cow and have to build myself up to it :-) I'm going to take the dog for a nice long walk and make a tabbouleh. Like I said start slowly. I also intend to stand on the scales, even take a picture of them and keep any sad sods who want to follow my blog updated with my progress. I would like to lose at least 40lbs but we will see. Probably need to lose 50 if the truth be told. So feel free to encourage me or give me some grief. Every little helps.

So thats me. I'm fighting an hereditory obesity gene and age but I will go down fighting.

Cheers