Day 190 - it's Monday and I've lost another pound :)

Hi all

I feel a great sense of achievement today as despite four meals out of my control plus the midweek doughnut & Twirl Bites incident I lost a pound. This means I now weigh 17st 12.5lbs and I'm on target for my 4lbs off before Christmas. The weight losses in my group were incredible this morning with about a dozen people losing over 5lbs (one lost 8!!), one target reacher, Emma (lost a fabulous 4st 4lbs) and a lady called Dot has now lost 6st since Jan 10th - truly awe-inspiring.
It also made me realise that despite my hormone-ridden body I could do better & lose more than a pound a week.
I am only out for one meal this week (Wednesday lunch) as far as I know, and if I get my bum in gear I may lose 2lbs so that's my target this week.

I started well today as I went for a coffee with a friend this morning and had a medium skinny latte (SW website says it's 5.5 sins but I hadn't had any milk today so that's ok). Came home and had a packet of smoked turkey with two celery stick and a couple of tomatoes as well as lots of water.

Tonight we had beef casserole that I made yesterday so it had 'marinated' well - it was so easy I fried over about 2lbs of cubed lean beef with Fry Light then added a back of M&S casserole veg, a bag of Waitrose casserole pack (more veg plus mixed beans), a tin of chopped tomatoes and a litre of beef stock made with a cube - whacked in the oven for 2 hours on a low light. Tonight I seasoned it and it bubbled away on the hob to thicken up a bit while I cooked some broccolli and new potatoes which I 'crushed' to mop up the gravy - absolutely yummy and completely free.
That's the way to do it!!!!!!!!!!

I've just had a satsuma and I'm stuffed full so I'm going to try very hard not to eat anything else tonight. I usually have at least one other piece of fruit in the evening but I'm going to test out the 'habit vs hunger' thingy - I'll let you know how I get on :)

Have a good evening all.
Lisa