Smoking turns your lungs black, causes premature ageing and those nasty little lip wrinkles, (the ones that enable your lipstick to spread across your face like an evil red fungus)

So I stopped smoking! (Almost five weeks now) :D ..... My lungs are becoming increasingly clean and sparkly, my skin has taken on a fresh rosy glow and my lipstick is (generally, apart from post snogging) contained within the lip area ..... But my hips are spreading daily! ..... Arghhhhhhhhh ..... What is a woman to do?

I have no objections to being fat, I am a self confessed BIG BEAUTIFUL WOMAN and PROUD. But even I have my limits.

So now I have to emback on a new fitness regime ..... Ho Hum ..... I feel like that king who had to put his fingers in dykes. (Or was it the dyke who had to hold back the tide?) ..... Mid life is a constant battle against the signs of time passing.

I know how to loose weight ..... eat less, move more ..... easy! ..... But do I really want to spend precious minutes of my remaining time on earth eating carrots and pounding the treadmill? I think not!

I will have to increase the amount of time I spend on energetic passtimes that I enjoy ..... hmmmmm ..... so it's more dancing and sex for me ..... Every cloud has a silver lining. ;)

Sparky x