First days are always supposed to be the hardest. At least thats what they say isn't it. Well I can honestly say that today has been fine. In fact I've not eaten that much but am still surprisingly full. I haven't not eaten on purpose, it's more a case of I'm not hungry.
I woke up this morning ready to start my countdown until Kathryns' birthday. First things first though ... the dreaded weigh in. As I stood on the scales very slowly, not that that makes much difference, I waited anxiously for the digits to come to a standstill. One, two, three...times up and I look down, scared of what I might see. Staring right back at me are the numbers 12st 4oz. Yes! thankfully I haven't put on any weight in the past two weeks and better still I am exactly one stone lighter then I was when I first decided to make a real go of losing weight in September.
As always when I get up it's straight to the kitchen to make a cup of tea. Up until this morning I had been drinking coffee, quite a lot actually. I would always use coffee mate and when I knew I was restarting my diet I even went out and brought coffee mate light. However, I looked up the syn value on it and well for the amount of coffee I'd been drinking it just wasn't worth it so it's in the cupboard for a special treat. Taking my tea I set up the computer to do my usual of checking emails (just in case I get a notification email to say I've won the lotto...nope), facebook, The Sun newspaper online, Twitter and my bank accounts (the amount in my accounts might have suddenly tripled in the last 24hrs since I last looked...nope).
In addition to the usual websites I go onto the Slimming World site in order to update my profile and plan my daily menu. Mondays are always hardest as Martin doesn't come home and for some reason I always forget about planning ahead for me and Matthew. After spending an hour or so on the site I flick over to the Tesco.com website to get the rest of my weekly shop. I'm not actually going to have it delivered but I like to check the prices etc of everything I buy so that there's no surprises at the till later.
Breakfast time and I decided to have an omelette and a banana. My plan was to have a 'heavier' breakfast as I was going to have soup for lunch with a yoghurt. Well that was the plan except there were no bananas or yoghurts in fact. I really needed to go get the shopping or face the unneccesary tempation of Matts' Fruit Winders in the fridge.
On the bus to Tesco, whilst looking out the window, I think to myself 'I really could have walked'. I can't walk home as the shopping would be too much for me or the buggy to handle. Mental note for next time...walk! Shopping at Tesco is my usual of racing up and down the aisles grabbing purely what is on my list and nothing more. This is another reason that I write a detailed list, to avoid the other items carefully placed by Tesco in order to get me to buy them. Shopping done and dusted.
Back at home and I just don't feel like the soup and bread that I had planned for earlier so instead I have a chicken mugshot followed by an apple. It's odd that after having the 'munchies' all last week to now not really being hungry. I'm trying to avoid eating things just for the sake of it, and this includes healthy foods like fruit. That is one of my two problems concerning my weight, the other being portion control. I've spent such a long time eating double of what I now know to be a healthy portion that it's a hard habit to break.
Hours later and dinner time is approaching. I'm looking forward to dinner, Philadephia stuffed chicken wrapped in bacon with potatoes and beans, and I'm actually quite hungry now!
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