Its April 1st! Its official....The journey has begun

This is going to be an extremely quick blog as its past 2am and I have to be at work in 6 hours, but i just wanted to let you all know that the journey has begun.

I should have typed this earlier but had to watch BGT and The Voice and Match of the Day which I had earlier recorded, so sorry its late!

I was officially weighed today by Heather from 'The Beauty Box' and will be doing so on a weekly basis from now until the journeys end.

Although very embarrased, I must share my current weight with you all. I currently weigh 20 stone & 6 pounds (or 286 pounds or 130.8 kilos). Which ever your preference, it is far too high!

I will be listing my measurements tomorrow when I have found someone with long enough arms to go round my waist! So I'm off for now and I will update you all tomorrow!

Nite nite

Thoughts...........

Been doing some hard thinking about the forthcoming diet and my head is definately in the right place. Getting lots of encouragement too, so thanks to all my 'supporters'!

Been wondering why we 'have to eat 3 meals a day'. Why do we have to eat breakfast, then lunch, then dinner. Why? who says..... Why can't we just eat when we are hungry and eat nothing when we're not? Who is this person who says we can't?

Then I was wondering if the food we eat daily (therefore our favourite foods as they are the ones we choose to eat) really are our favourite foods, or do we just eat them because they're convenient. I mean seriously, is the cheese sandwich you have for lunch really what you want, or are you eating it because its quick and easy........? If someone asked to you what you wanted to eat and they would make it for you, would you really choose a cheese sandwich? Of course not. Therefore the logical part of my brain is telling me that I wont be missing out on anything because they are not my 'favourite foods'. It reminds me too that this will not be a diet, but a change in my eating habits and lifestyle. I genuinely believe that I will enjoy the food on my journey more than the food I was eating. It will just take a little more effort and planning.......

Enough of my thoughts for now..... Sleep well all and I will return tomorrow to bore you all again!

Ciao for now

The 'SYSS' lunch is finally over!

Well, an early start for me this morning. I arrived at work at 8am to prep all the food for today's networking bash. Wish I hadnt gone to soooo much trouble really as less than half of the people who confirmed they would be coming didnt attend. A lot of food, effort and money wasted............... Still, we enjoyed the day, met some very nice people, some we knew, some we didn't and probably broke even. On a more heartening note, we have had a fantastic response from the  Facebook group ' Sell Your Stuff Spain' for whom the bash was for. Some excellent comments, thank you to all who attended. Who knows, we may have gained ourselves a few more customers along the way......? I've been trying to download some pictures, but having problems at the mo.... Ha ha ! I've just copied them all and shoved 'em on! Here they are....... Until tomorrow people, good night and sleep tight

2 days to go before the Networking lunch.......

Some of you (especially the ladies out there) probably love a little shopping trip now and again. For me, nothing beats a trip to Macro! All that produce in one place, weyhey! I was  like a perv in a sex shop! All that aside, I was a little put out that they were out of stock of a few of the things I needed for the networking lunch. No chicory, no little gem lettuce, NO BASIL,no mozzarella pearls, no way! So a trip to Mercadona tomorrow and a rethink on the mozzarella front! Everything else I needed was there so tomorrow I start with the preparation for Wednesday. Looking forward to doing the canapes as I dont usually get the chance to be creative that much. Most of my customers think that balsamic vinegar is a bit out there! In fact I'm telling porkies. Sorry, most of my customers dont know what balsamic vinegar is.................!! Anyway, enough of alienating the few customers I have, I'm off to watch 'Ramsay's kitchen nightmares'! Perv in a sex shop again! Give me a 'Nisbets' catalogue and the Food Network channel and I'm a happy bunny!

Nite folks, sleep well and we'll talk soon

OOOPs, nearly forgot

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Jimbo's journey.....

Well, Sunday lunch is over again and it seems like only yesterday that I was boring you all to tears with tales of last weeks action! Another full house today so pretty chuffed, but the downside is having to turn customers (therefore wonga) away! The highlight for me this week was my sexy pimped up pork! Once again I was a little concernred that the 'traditionalists' would not be adventurous enough to try it, but I only managed to bring a tiny bit home so it must have been ok! It was just a simple pork loin stuffed with apricots, sage and rosemary and wrapped in streaky bacon, but sometimes I find that the simple can taste fantastic. Got some good comments from the regulars so maybe I shouldn't worry too much! The beef was pretty amazing too if I do say so myself! ;0)

Anyway, on to the important stuff. All my Facebook friends have been invited to my 'event', 'Jimbo's journey' which will be starting on April 1st. Very poignant for me methinks! I will be changing my eating habits for one year to try to a) lose weight and b) regain my cooking creativity which has taken a little nosedive since moving to Spain. Follow my journey via this blog and through Faceboook with 'jimbo's food page'. I will be listing some recipies (feel free to leave me ideas on my Facebook page) and hopefully keeping you all amused and riveted to it on a daily basis. If it interests you, please follow my blog and if you think your friends will be interested tell them all about it. I'd love to take as many people 'with me' as I can. Watch this space!

Good nite all
Jimbo (the hopefully not so fat chef in the coming weeks)!

Mr Bryant!

Hello Mr B! I have been checking on my viewers and I see that there are 3 viewings from the UAE. CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'VE ONLY LOOKED AT MY BLOG 3 TIMES!!!!!! ;0)