h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Gordon has booked another cruise for us leaving 3 July so I have 4 months to lose 4 stone so I look good in the photos.

The strict no sweets/puddings/cakes diet and MUST exercise daily routine starts today!

(but you can keep supplying the smiley and and thank you)

Which part of the world are you cruising this time?

Lucky you!!


Will it be back on the Med?


lil x

Well, you can try giving all the bad stuff up for Lent. I've given up , crisps and fizzy drinks. And I'm not going on a cruise (no, the Isle of Wight ferry does not count) Boo!

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Want to join my on MyFitnessPal? I find it very handy as a food log.

Good luck! Although you always look fabulous when you get done up!

If you lose four stone you won't be visible any more.

Four stone, there'll be nowt of you, woman!

The Med, yes lil

You're all so kind, but I have gone up another dress size and I really want to lose the excess weight. I will be exercising every day!!

I have joined a friend's FB group "Getting Fit Together" Bea, but it's more a support group and a small number to keep the chatting low rather than being a food log. My week is difficult due to Tuesdays & Thursdays I cook for me and Gordon (he likes a 3-course lunch!), Wednesday I have a carvery lunch out with my mother (with a pudding or sweet back at hers with a ). Saturday night Gordon cooks for me and 2 students (3 courses). Mondays & Fridays will be easy as I can eat exactly what I want (1 course!), and Sunday I usually cobble meals from that week's leftovers.

GB, meals out are lovely but they have done for me too this winter. People seem to feel sorry for me, think I need comfort food and spoil me - it is difficult to ay No, without sounding ungrateful.

Trying to build my willpower so I need some hot weather pronto as I eat very little then

you have a good incentive at least.

Websailor

Four stone? You'll need a whole new wardrobe. Difficult to keep it off while on a cruise too....

The reward of a cruise is getting to eat all you want because you trained so hard to go on it.

I wish the heat really did keep the weight off.

The reward for me is not having to prepare meals and do the washing-up & putting away. And no housework.

I am also looking forward to salad season as I could live on salad (so long as there's cold cuts like Yorkshire ham and Topside of beef)

I did not indulge on the last cruise, although I did go for seconds when the offer of "Pina Colada cake" was just too much to resist...

Pina Colada cake! Sounds interesting...

Go on then, tell us where you're going!

departing Southampton, sailing to Malaga, then Corfu, Dubrovnik, Venice, Split, Palma, Lisbon, Vigo, then back to Southampton.

http://www.pocruises.com/Cruises/2012-13-cruises/Southampton-Cruises1/Central-Mediterranean-N216/?mode=overview&Search=true there's a ship tour and slideshow there.

Sounds like a fab itenerary! Enjoy!

Did you mention Southampton?
If only there was a h2g2 researcher who worked/lived in the Southampton area you could meet up with (if you were likely to spend a little time in Southampton before/after the cruise)

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Corfu Town is where Prince Philip is from! And on a good day, you can kiss the 1,700-year-old corpse of Saint Spyridhon.

And someone once said that Venice is comparable only to itself. How true.

Great iterinary GB!