Success & stumbling blocks :-))

Hi all

Firstly (drum roll required!) I lost 1.5lbs this week. I'm so pleased with myself as I worked hard at it last week so it's always nice to get the reward.

I couldn't stay to group this week as I had to take Toby to the orthodontist & then collect my friend from her hospital appointment. So I came straight home (not via anywhere to buy 'naughties') and had breakfast (fruit & yogurt).
Thus my feeling of smugness continued.

Unexpectedly I went out for lunch to Daisy's in Pinner Park - had smoked salmon & poached egg on brown toast (no butter) & hollandaise sauce - oops forgot to ask for sauce on the side (stumbling block 1). I didn't eat it all but still probably had 3 syns-worth.

Stumbling block two came with the Chinese takeaway we had for dinner !! It was a treat for the boys & tried very hard not to over do it but I guess it must have contained around 20syns (probably a conservative estimate£.

Still today is another day & I have had a much more controlled day.
Breakfast was choc Weetabix with blackberries and milk. Lunch was a mixed salad with cous-cous with strawberries, grapes & an apple. For dinner tonight I've had cold beef with brussels & stir fried noodles with mushrooms followed by an orange. I've had loads to drink but absolutely no stumbling blocks today - phew!!

I realised after yesterday, which wasn't awful but not a 'strict diet day', that if I persist with the one day at a time principal, one bad day does not have to mean a second bad day or third & so on - lesson learned I hope.

I have a very old friend (male) who started on SW last September and has so far lost over 7.5 stone - I'm so proud of him - and I so wish I could lose at the same rate as him but I realise that my hormone-filled menopausal body just isn't willing to give up the fat cells that quickly.
However, they will be given up because I really don't want them anymore, but it will take time, effort, patience and not too many stumbling blocks!!!

That's it from me tonight - it's time for Superstar (Nathan for Jesus!!)

Love
Lxx