Where there's a will to change, there's a way, Christine O'Connor finds.
I have banished the term diet. I have a fitness regime and an eating plan.
I'm not on a diet. From past experiences, I've found them to be terrible.
Nevertheless, like a myriad of folk out there, I've thrown myself into a variety of different diets over the years: a soup one, a shake one, and even - good grief - a cigarettes and coffee one!
(Luckily, I am blessed with incredible willpower. I gave up smoking. Not once but three times!)
I now find diets, dieting and talk of them to be extremely boring.
I've realised if you want change, there has to be change.
I got real about that and went about putting it together.
Where there is a will, there is a way, and my willpower is seriously strong.
Stubborn is a term members of my family have been heard to mutter, but I disagree with them, it is just that my way is better!
All joking aside, some people I work with love to tease me, insisting that I'm ''on a diet'' and winding me up whenever there is an office shout.
''Oh what a pity you won't be having any of the morning tea shout. The chocolate cake is divine, but you're on a diet, you can't have any.''
Working in a busy office department where there is the potential for 60 staff to be working at any given time, there always seems to be an email offering a mouth-watering morning tea shout ''in the usual place''.
Fortunately, that place is at the far end of the room, so avoidance isn't too difficult, but it does require some will power.
Curious to see if all the hard work had been worth it, I went to my workout at Let's Go Fitness earlier this week eager to weigh myself.
During this journey I have largely avoided the scales, weighing in only when curiosity got the better of me, as it did a couple of weeks ago.
On that occasion I had been working out hard, and was delighted to see I'd lost 7kg.
The past week has been a nightmare, so I was expecting a gain.
I couldn't believe it when the scales showed I had lost a further 2kg!
It was a beautiful sight. I couldn't get the grin off my face.
Supermodel Kate Moss once somewhat controversially said, ''Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels''.
It was her motto, and, at that moment, I felt I understood it.
