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Good afternoon fellow fashionistas. How the devil are you all?

Today is my non-working day, went out for some lunch and a wander around some of the shops with my chum, DULL,DULL,DULL, no, not my friend silly, the shopping, absolutely ‘hee-haw’ worth looking at, let alone buy.

Best shop- hands down, was Waterstones….. the only shop I actually saw anything I wanted to purchase. How bad is that? Not that I don’t love reading, I do, (would love to read more but sadly, working gets in the way of a good narrative), I love a good wander around a book shop, you can’t beat physically picking up a book and reading the front and back cover, and if you are buying, NEVER TAKE THE ONE AT THE TOP, NOT EVEN THE SECOND OR THIRD ONE, someone will have been rifling through it and it won’t have that ‘new book’ feel, more like ‘used’. Maybe I am just a bit OCD about this, I am same with magazines. WHAT?? Stop judging me – honestly, what are you like???

What else have I been doing, you may ask?? Or not if you don’t really care. Well, I will tell you. I was gifted, wait for it…… Personal Training sessions until the end of the year.

Now, there are 2 ways of looking at this…..

• does the person who gifted said sessions think I am a big, fat, beached whale, who eats too much chocolate, drinks too much wine and has let herself go, and, that the only way I will lose weight and get fit, is if I am beaten into submission by a personal trainer OR
• they are a very kind and thoughtful human being and can see how much I cant stand my shape and size at the moment and that it’s making me thoroughly miserable…………. well, after a nanoseconds thought, I know it’s the latter of the two and that it’s just a lovely thing to do for me (I will get that McQ dress on for Christmas). Last night was my induction and first session and it was great (at the time), today, not so great, there are bits of me aching that I didn’t know were possible to feel pain in, and, if I bend down, I am in severe danger of not getting back up again. Next week I have 2 sessions and my GOAL, apart from McQ dress, is to get leaner, toned and for my clothes to be less SNUG on me. I am not really setting myself a ‘target’ weight as such as I am 57, I’m menopausal – DONT ARGUE WITH ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! plus some of the exercises I will be doing will build muscle, so, I’m just going to try my best over the next few months and see what the end result is………………………………… watch this space.

Anyways, that’s it for today, funnily enough I am now going to read a bit of my book and chill and I’ll be back here over the weekend with some uselessful snippets.

Enjoy being you xx