Day 22 – weigh-in and measurements and after photos
The face says it all. I feel so good and look so much better after just three short weeks. This morning I got up and weighed myself. I weigh 129.6lbs. I’ve lost just under 5lbs in three weeks! Without having to try very hard! Or become a vegan! (Sorry to Kate Besworth.) The week before I started 21 Days Later I reached my own personal tipping point when I realized I had gotten a little larger than I was comfortable with. When I weighed myself then I was 139.4lbs. A few days later I...
Read MoreDay 21 – I made it!
I did it! I made it through three weeks of Anthony Punshon’s workout and eating plan. I feel fecking great. Here are the things I’ve learned in the last three weeks: I can accomplish anything I set my mind to What goes into your mouth is more important than the exercise you do Any eating plan can fit around your life if you plan well enough You do not have to be fat over 40 Rice cakes are delicious The secret to staying on a calorie-controlled diet is variety and imagination If...
Read MoreDay 20 – busy busy busy day
Today was crazy busy! I got up at 6am to get downtown to pick up Daisy from her foster mom Ruth. I volunteer for Canadian Chihuahua Rescue and Transport who rescue and rehome Chihuahuas. Daisy is a new rescue and was scheduled to be spayed this morning before she will be ready for her new forever home. What a doll! She was found tied up alone in the lobby of an apartment building. How can people be so cruel? Luckily she’s still very affectionate and doesn’t seem to have been too...
Read MoreDrake General Store
Best. Wig. Ever. And a live chicken. Who could say no to a live chicken??? The Drake General Store is the funkiest tshatshke store you ever did see. Seriously – Sabryn Rock (my co-star in the commercial) and I wanted to buy everything in it. From Mountie napkins to red deer soap dispensers and knitted moustaches this place is beatnik gift heaven. This spot is an internet commercial I filmed with the lovely director Curt Wehrfritz of Untitled Films. We had way too much fun on this...
Read MoreDay 19 – the most delicious snack ever
I mean it. I’m not messing around here. For reals. One of the most important things (IMHO) when you’re on a diet is to find food combinations that you consider delicious and filling without being a truck-load of something that’s going to screw up your weight loss. And one of the best ever inventions (again IMHO) is Greek yogurt. Seriously. It’s da bomb. Here’s what I made with it today: Now why President’s Choice insist on putting sugar in their fruit...
Read MoreDay 18 – it was the hormones made me do it, guv…
I was ready to eat a scabby donkey. Seriously. At the height of my hormonal pre-menstrual nonsense I feel like I want to eat Toronto. I’d already used up my snack in the afternoon on 6 pieces of Green & Black’s (my fabulous cheat from yesterday). It was 9.30pm and supper was a distant memory (we eat at 6.30pm to accommodate a ravenous 16-year-old). I’d also already done my evening trick of a low-fat café mocha (1tsp cocoa powder, half a mug of heated skimmed milk, half a...
Read MoreDay 17 – a calculated cheat
I cheated today. Well, it was a semi-cheat. A calculated one. I am a bit pre-menstrual today. Well, a lot pre-menstrual, to be brutally frank. This was evidenced in the way I had a stand-up argument with a women in Indigo’s because she was rude to one of the store clerks who was trying to help her. I decided I needed chocolate. Badly. But I didn’t want to scoff down a KitKat Chunky Max. I wanted something decent and well-made. And I didn’t want to go over my calorie count. I...
Read MoreDay 16 – fun with Dominik
Today I saw an old friend for the first time in nearly 20 years. Dominik Diamond and I went to the Bristol University Drama Department together, along with Simon Pegg, Richard Stokes and David Walliams. Whose name was David Williams at that time. Apparently the “a” makes it more hilarious. Dom was living in Nova Scotia when he landed the evening dj slot on Q107 in Toronto. I was preposterously excited to see him. We ran around the ROM all afternoon (basically laughing at the nude...
Read MoreMarilla who?
I am a British-born actress and stand-up comic who does lots of voice work (for commercials, cartoons and corporate clients) and sometimes, when I'm very lucky, tv and film. When I was in England I did mostly theatre. Now I'm in Canada I spend the majority of the time writing and performing stand-up. When I'm not making episodes of Talking Bollocks, that is. And that's me for you.