Ausgirl, thanks for that advice. I know what you are saying. I don't have junk in my house. I would be absolutely huge if I did! And I have used calorie King before which did work, but honestly, now with 2 toddlers and working I just don't really have time to do it all. And realistically, I don't really want to be doing it long term, I want to learn to do it automatically, and just rely on my knowledge that this food is healthy or whatever. The junk I do eat is usually at work, or I (or dh) go and buy it.

I am trying to make this a lasting change so I am taking teeny tiny baby steps! I know to others it might sound like I'm not doing so well, but trust me this is an improvement from my usual! I actually only had one small slice of cake, rather than two huge ones which I would have done before. I am eating proportionate servings rather than double the amount I am supposed to. I am walking 30-45mins 3x a week rather than nothing at all. I am trying to do it in small managable bits. Increase it all slowly so it is a bit easier to make a lasting transition.

I used to do all of this as my normal life before I had kids, I was a healthy weight, so I can do it, but its been a long time since I have had good habbits, so I'm trying slowly. In the past I have done it all in one go, food exercise and I failed, just gone back to my bad habbits and it just hasn't been managable for me, so maybe if I do it in baby steps, it will work....