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So, it’s about a fortnight since I horribly embarrassed myself when I revealed that I had gained 7lbs instead of actually loosing weight, so I guess you could say I was absolutely determined to loose weight this time.

I would like to say that this diet and fitness lark hasn’t been all plain sailing…  Just this Friday I, along with my father, polished off 4 bottles of wine with large quantities of BBQ food.  When the wine was gone I then proceeded to assist my lovely wife in drinking a few cases of Budweiser!  Not only did these stupid events lead to the intake of a vast amount of calories but the preceding hangover ensured that I stayed away from the gym the next day!  BAD, BAD BOY!

However rather than admit defeat and blow my Fat-to-Fit project out of the water I simply started again the next day.

I’ve never been good with purely vegetarian dishes -- I always want to add a bit of meat for texture and flavour!  However in an attempt to reduce my meat intake I knocked together this tasty, filling and more importantly healthy dish in under 15 minutes last night and more importantly I didn’t miss the meat at all!

For those of you on a Slimming World diet it should fit in perfectly as an evening meal on a green day.  It’s not a completely free meal, but as with most of my recipes each ingredient is optional, so feel free to add/remove bits to your hearts content!

The first thing you need to do is finely chop a red onion or two.  It does need to be fine, not chunky -- the rest of the veg makes up the chunky part of this recipe.  Here’s Gordon to show you how…

A little over a fortnight ago I wrote a post entitled Fat to Fit – The Start of the Jorney about how I was unhappy about my expanding waistline and I started making grand plans to bring the situation under control.  Two weeks later and you’re probably expecting a post on how I’ve lost several pounds, how I’ve been eating more healthily and how I’ve really hit the gym.

Unfortunately I’m going to disappoint!  I’ve been lazy!  In fact I’ve put on 5 lbs – bringing my current weight to 252lbs!

My initial reaction was to blame it on other things rather than face the truth – that I have been LAZY!

Firstly, I could have blamed the lovely teaching staff who presented me with oodles of chocolates, donughts, wine and much more at the end of term for all of my hard work this past year!  But I cannot – their presents were given with the best of intentions and I truly am greatful for them, they didn’t force me to eat a box of Thorntons Premier Chocolates in two days or stuff 5 custard donughts down my throat in an afternoon – NO I did that to myself.

Since I totally quit smoking I’ve noticed my weight slowly creep upwards.  Well, to be more accurate, I’ve noticed my trousers get tighter and tighter!  So today I stepped onto the scales and was not happy at all…

I’ve been on the heavy side for as long as I can really remember and for the last few years I’ve mostly kept my weight around 16.5 stone, give or take a few pounds.  I’ve also told myself that whilst it’s obviously not the most healthy weight for me to be, it’s not all that bad, it could be worse and I wasn’t really that old (I’m currently 33) so there would be plenty of time to loose weight later.

Well guess what?  That day has now come..  Today I weigh in at the “grand” weight of 247lbs (112kg).  At my height of 5′ 10″ that give me a BMI of 35.4, officially making me obese!

It’s now been around 10 weeks since I cut out all smoking (it feels much longer though) and although it was hard it was something that I truly wanted to do, which made it achievable.  I firmly believe that was the key to quiting smoking – I had tried before but I never really, honestly wanted to give up, which is why I’d failed to quit so many times before.

So now it’s time to stop ignoring the problem and face the fat head on…