Chocolate and Beyond

What I've been busy with is Wren Elite Travel!

Yes, I did manage a new year post (yippee) but I thought it was time to announce on my Chocolate and Beyond site what it is that I've been busy with, which is my new internet-based travel agency, Wren Elite Travel.

I did launch late last year, but it is now that I feel that the foundations are in place and I'm truly ready to roll. It's very exciting: Wren Elite Travel specialises in luxury holidays and tailor-made travel, adventure and activity, weddings abroad and honeymoons, and escorted treks and tours.

I provide a more comprehensive service than online holiday booking engines can provide, yet without the overheads of a high street shop, can be competitive in price. As well, if you already have a quote you'd like to see if I can better, and if not by price then with some extras - just let me know the details (such as who your current quote is with, on what dates and for how long, and at what price).

If you read Chocolate and Beyond and would like to enquire about a holiday, quote 'Chocolate' when you speak to me or email, and I will ensure to send you a chocolate treat when you confirm your booking!

Wren Elite Travel website: www.wrenelitetravel.co.uk
Telephone: 0845 475 0342
Email: enquiries@wrenelitetravel.co.uk

Happy New Year - and still not dieting!

It's been a while, I know, but life has been busy and nowadays I have pretty much settled into an existence without diets (hence I feel less need to post). If you have only just stumbled upon this site (and I know it gets a lot of readers still), then I will let you know that in September 2006, I stopped dieting, and never looked back.

Okay - it hasn't been an easy ride - but it was a decision that liberated me more than I could ever imagine. And it's definitely taken this long to conquer the demons that have tried to tempt me back on the diet treadmill. But now I feel that my eating is more 'normal' than ever - and when people talk about 'cravings' and a lack of control around food (thereby avoiding it, rather than 'risking' being around it), I struggle to remember what that was like.

Don't get me wrong - I still have to work at things - but those occasions are fewer and generally, I find myself eating all the things I used to avoid like the plague, and I'm still the same weight as I was before I gave up diets. It's not my ideal weight, I will admit (on the larger side of size 12), but I'd rather be this weight than struggle on a daily basis to be one size smaller, miserable while eating lettuce and low-fat cottage cheese.

To be honest, I don't even remember what that crap tasted like! I have had butter in my fridge for the past 2 years, and while I went back to semi-skimmed over full fat milk only because I prefer the taste, I no longer know what it is like to choose 'low-fat' or diet versions of food over the real stuff. My dieting friends must panic when they come to my house and all I have is butter to spread on their toast - for them a rare treat, for me a daily occurrence.

So, I'm just popping in again to let you know that I'm still here, fighting fit, and a living a diet-free life is better than ever! No New Year diet resolution just after Christmas, even though like most normal human beings, of course I put on weight - but I no longer feel the need to panic it away. I'll just get back to normal and everything will be fine!