Hi All
Its been a funny old couple of days.
Yesterday, as I said I had a meeting in Newmarket - four hour round trip for a 3 hour meeting - has to be done but I do wonder when video conferencing will become the norm? Don't get me wrong I'd always rather meet face to face - it's the only way you really know what people are thinking (especially if they aren't talking!!) - but it was rainy & miserable yesterday.
Anyway I had a good breakfast before I left - porridge, a banana & ss milk with a coffee and glass of squash - which was good because the coffee at the meeting was served with 'mega-cookies' but I wasn't tempted because I was full from breakfast. However, then it was lunch & although I intended to do the best I could it wasn't good and in truth I was hungry by then so although I only had one small filled roll (cheese & onion), 1 mini tart (onion & goats cheese), lots of crudites (no dressing) and two fruit skewers............I didn't resist the shot glass filled with chocolate & vanilla custard - oops!!
Despite that I was starving when I left and drove straight home without stopping even though I needed petrol because I knew that was asking for disaster to strike. So I did limit the damage, but like us all, I wish I could understand why I am incapable of resisting temptation when it's chocolaty???
In truth, it was very sickly and I didn't enjoy it much - daft really.
When I got home I helped myself to some cold meat & cherry tomatoes as a snack as well as catching up on my water - too long a journey to drink much en route as my bladder isn't as strong as it used to be (lol!)
Last night I went out with Tobz & he had takeaway but I didn't as wasn't really hungry - strange day really............
Today I woke up with renewed enthusiasm for the task in hand - breakfast was two weetabix, ss milk & a pack of pomegranate seeds sprinkled over the top. I was running late but Tobz had leaped out of bed with unusual speed so didn't have (or make) time to prepare lunch. I got him to the bus stop & on my way to Stevenage (I know I get to some exotic towns!), I stopped at Morrisons and bought some Smoked Salmon, an extra large salad from the salad bar, and a large fruit selection from the fruit bar (what a great idea!) plus two boxes of cherries.
I munched the cherries in the car, and had the salads & salmon for lunch together with lots of water. During the afternoon I had a yogurt (one of the Irish berry ones - really yummy) and did lots of work!!
To be honest having eaten that lot I wasn't that hungry this evening so cooked myself an omelette with some tomatoes and beetroot on the side, and finished off the raspberry cheesecake.
I feel so much better for having followed the plan today & only had a few syns from the salad bar - one of the salads was pasta with a tomato sauce, and the couscous had a couple of cheesy bits in (literally). I've 'been' several times (possibly too much detail for some!) and that's definitely good for my weight loss and I don't feel so sluggish - although I am knackered!!
My mum & sis had a bad day on the diet front, both put on weight, so actually I did best this week !!
I felt really sorry for my sister - she lost loads last week but had been very poorly and I suspect eating normally this week had that 'rebound effect' which is very frustrating but can sometimes just be unavoidable. I'm sure they'll both do better next week.
I did, however, have a really interesting chat with my mum who knew she'd put on weight because she'd been nibbling naughty things BUT even though she hadn't enjoyed them she finished them up :(
I'm certain this is to do with our upbringing - she was a child in the war & so food wasn't plentiful like it is now so she always had to 'finishe everything on her plate'. When I was a child/teenager my parents were very hard up & it was out of the question to waste anything or not finish your meal. I'm sure that although, luckily, we can now afford to throw away food we don't like our ingrained instinct is not to & this has an impact on how we behave. I suspect that recognising this and ALLOWING MYSELF to override the instinct to 'finish up' everything on my plate may well go a long way to defeat my constant battle with food.
And, on that serious note I'm off to bed now.
Love to all
Lxx
PS: Tomorrow I'm meeting a friend in town and we are going to Fortnum & Mason for lunch. I'm really looking forward to it as I've never been there :) Will let you know how I get on x
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