It's my party and I'll cry if I want to!

So today is my birthday and I'm feeling a little emotional - for several reasons. The first is my age (a lady doesn't like to reveal it!) but suffice it to say that that I have tipped over the middle of a decade and starting the countdown to a milestone birthday. Very depressing!

The second has to do with cake. Now I love cake and have a little hobby-that-pays making and decorating celebration cakes and cupcakes. So cake is a big part of my life and I'm going to miss it!

This was my last piece of cake before starting the pre op diet on Saturday.

But as much as I'm going to miss cake, I know that this time next year I'm going to be at least 4 stone lighter if not more and that thought makes me so happy and optimistic for the future. Imagine a year when I leave it lighter than I started it! Don't know when that's happened in oh so many years.

Whilst I hate wishing the years away because they bring me ever so closer to that milestone birthday I don't want to hit, I just wish I could fast forward to my birthday next year and see how I look!

For now I'll just have to finish this lovely day off, where I've been treated like a queen by my gingerbread boys and gingerbread hubby, with sweet dreams of what the future holds and how the slimmer me will feel this time next year. So hasta last vista cake, maybe I won't miss you that much after all!