Tanstar I'm not familiar with calorie counting. I've never had much luck doing that. I have no idea how much foods have in it etc. I tried calorie king but didn't have much luck with it. Glad the blue cheese and Savoys didn't sabotage your efforts. I too find the first few days the hardest. I've been making better chocices for over a month now but have only just substaincially reduced my sugars/fat intake. I used to be a big toast eater for breakfast. Now I avoid it almost all of the time and have cereal or tinned fruit with yogurt (until I cut yogurt out to reduce my dairy intake for my bubs intolerance) Cereals of choice for me were the weight watchers fruit and nut or just right but I recently as of yesterday have started special K as I heard it keeps you full longer.

SJ I got the 30 day shred DVD also from ebay. It wont arrive until Friday at the earliest. I don't generally do exercise videos but it wasn't expensive and it couldn't hurt to try. I'm also looking for a 2nd hand treadmill. Just finding with the kids it can be almost impossible to get out of the house so I need to do stuff at home.

I used 1/2 cup of skim on my cereal this morning and when I finished I had 1/4 cup left so only used 1/4 cup of skim. Not bad I don't think.