Ok, I was determined to jump on the old fitness wagon at the start of the year, but found it really difficult. I don't think that my mind was in the right place, and my body definitely wasn't!!

I made excuses, I am aware of that, but I just couldn't stop myself from enjoying the amazing Thai takeaway just around the corner, or even worse, the kebab shop that is literally outside our back door!!

But then something clicked!! A girl I used to work with posted a picture of herself on Facebook, she looked unbelievably amazing! She had toned up and lost weight and looked really happy.

I wanted a piece of that!! I had cancelled my gym membership, at £45 a month and no time to go, the money would be far better off in my pocket! So I asked her what she had been doing and she pointed me in the direction of Gillian Michaels and her '30 Day Shred' DVD.

I was dubious, I've had DVD's before, I loose interest before I loose any weight and then I am disheartened, have a kebab and the whole cycle begins again!!

Anyway, I ordered it, decided I'd give it a go, it's 20 minute sessions of high intensity workout!!

So my usual day starts at 5am, 5.30 if I'm lucky! I watch some children's tv or a Scooby Doo DVD, then get my now 4 year old boy and 20 month old little girl ready for nursery, harder than it sounds, get them fed, teeth cleaned etc and out the door for 7.30am. If I'm lucky and the buses are on my side I get back home at 8.40....

.....so this is it, I do my 20 minutes and then get showered and off to work!!

Do you know what I like it, it's working and - she says quietly - quite enjoy it!!!

Of course there's more too it than a workout, I have had to ditch the junk food!! And I want to keep going until I get 2 weeks out the way, this is apparently when the junk is out of your system and your body starts to change!!

So, after my first week, I lost 6lbs!!!! I am worried my scales are wrong, but I'm going with it!
This week is hard, I'm hungry, I want to eat cake!! but I'm just trying to think of something else right now!!

Got to work towards that summer body!!

I just want to feel good and not frumpy in what I wear, not catch a glimpse of myself in a shop window reflection and think 'god you look awful!!'.

On day 9 today..... lets see if I get to the end without failing!!!...