Made a super ginormous pot of ratAtouille on Monday night so Today and yesterday have been

Overnight soaked oats porridge with turmeric, almond milk and berries
Ratatouille, Green beans, brocoli, boiled egg
Satsuma for snack
Ratatouille, v small brown rice, home made houmous (turns out not nearly as nice as shop bought!!)

Tomorrow :
Porridge
Yet more ratatouille, with tofu this time
Boiled eggs/ satsuma snack
The last of the ratAtouille!!! Avec half an avocado

Night all x

I’ve been weighing myself every few days and was lucky enough to have a visit from the Whoosh fairy since my last weigh in on here – so another 800g gone. I just wish the Whoosh fairy visits would coincide with the days I record my progress on here!
Anyway the good news for me is that I’m now only a measly 500g from my goal weight for this challenge 🙂
Today’s planned meals
B – Porridge with coconut oil, Cinammon & berries
L – Tuna salad & veg soup
D – chilli & cauliflower rice.

Just back from fab evening out with all the family celebrating #2 son’s birthday. Totally gave up on attempting to keep track and log what I ate – suffice it to say….too much 😢 not in quantity, as just had 2 starters but they did include refined carbs for first time in 16 weeks. #2 son ended up eating half mine as really couldn’t manage it all. Declined dessert as just too full. Did have 2/3 bottle of NZ Sauvignon Blanc and enjoyed every mouthful.

So no idea of calorie or carb count but tomorrow I will be extra good….
Fage yoghurt and blueberries for breakfast.
Skip lunch.
Prawn and avocado salad for supper.

Hopefully that will negate today’s damage 😜

Good afternoon everyone. I’m home today so managing to drink more (other days I worry about things like being stuck on a long train ride with no toilet!) which is great. I did the grocery shopping this morning and taste-tested a flavoured water they were handing out. It was “no sugar” and I was hoping not too much artificial stuff but I didn’t check. It was disgusting! You know that glucose drink they give you to see if you’re diabetic – 75 g of sugar in a little bottle and so hard to gag down – this seemed just as sweet but with a fake aftertaste. Disgusting. I considered opening the bottle of milk in my trolley and swigging it straight from the bottle to get the taste out of my mouth but in the end just ate a few grapes. But the weirdest thing was a few minutes later I was strongly tempted to buy some liquorice, not something I eat very often. Odd.

Today’s menu:
B: 2 rashers of bacon, tea with milk
L: chicken, 3 or 4 potato gems (little processed potato things I got for my daughter who is home sick today), tea (why no vegetables Natalie!)
A: pear
D: (planned) roast beef in my new oven delivered today! And roast veges.

I had a new oven delivered last week but it was faulty, replacement today seems to be working fine.

Welcome back Busybee, hope you enjoyed the wedding in beautiful Spain. I like the way you’re planning….it’s important for us isn’t it?

Thanks, Sunshine-girl, for the tutorial on not losing my posts .

SueBlue, I’d not thought of coconut oil with porridge, sounds interesting. How does your carb count go with the porridge?

Mid afternoon here, going well. I added a couple of things to my lunchtime salad so will forgo the snack I’d planned “in case of need”😉

Natalie, I know what you mean about the sweetened waters. My grandies love the berry infused mineral water but just a sip was enough to make me gag. That glucose test was torture. So how is it that I can and have scoffed down quantities of jelly babies, jujubes, icecream, chocolate etc. All sweet, right? Crazy!
Not talking anymore about sweet things, don’t want them to lodge in my brain …lalalala……lalalala……..lalalala……

Good morning

I’m afraid this menu reporting isn’t working for me. It’s just another layer of pressure. Usually if I stray I put into Fatsecret and it stops me over indulging any further but yesterday it didn’t work because I felt like ‘I’d blown the day’ when I ate too many nuts so just carried on!!

Yesterday
Breakfast: total, strawberries and walnuts.
Lunch: tuna mayo, cucumber and 3 fine milled oat cakes
Dinner: Tom’s piri piri chicken, mashed cauliflower and asparagus.
All good till we get to the snacks….. a few squares Lindt 90% and nuts, nuts and more and more nuts!!!!!!

Tom’s piri piri …. has anybody else made it? It was a bit messy to prepare, taking the skin off the chicken etc. I think I may have made the paste a little too ‘rough’. I used a small processor but think I should have used my magimix just didn’t feel like all that cleaning!! Any way the marinade seemed a bit ‘wet’ to me. Next time I’ll put the garlic through a press rather than just cutting it. So to the taste …. lovely, hot, hot, hot but very nice. I think it’s actually better cold. Would I make it again …. definitely …. but maybe with fewer chillis and more herbs and maybe a touch more ‘stevia’.

Will still be here tomorrow but without the pressure of ‘reporting’ my food intake!

Have a good day.

Marsie you made me chuckle! While you were singing Lala Lala in your head, I was giving myself a good talking too!
I had planned to meet a friend for lunch today and was going to have a tuna salad. But my friend couldn’t make it. Usually I bring lunch to work from home, but because I thought I was going out for lunch I didn’t bring anything.
I went out for a walk at lunchtime and walked past bakers, chip shops, multiple take away shops etc. I’d look inside and think “mmm hot chips with gravy…” etc and then the voice inside my head says “what are you thinking? WHY would you want to eat that” and so it continued.
Then I remembered I had brought in some vegetable and lentil soup about a month ago, and put it in the freezer. So I walked back to work and had that.
But it just made me laugh as I was walking into some of these shops (and then out again) – if anyone had asked me what I was doing it was like “the voice in my head is telling me not to buy anything!”.
Goodness this WOE is making me crazy! But at least I stuck to 800 calories today!

Marsie – forgot to answer your porridge question. I don’t have diabetes so to be honest don’t worry about carbs TOO much, but in saying that try to keep to 50g-70g a day.
I only use 25g rolled oats and make it with water and 50ml semi-skimmed milk (as well as coconut oil and Cinammon) and the carbs are about 15/16g.
Other times I have an oat and Chia Bircher style porridge and it only uses 12.5g oats, the Chia is about 5g so again around 17g carbs.
But not all carbs are created equal. Dr Mosely has some blurb about it in the recipe book, and from memory it’s that oats, the unprocessed kind, not instant, are slow-release carbs. I find when I have porridge for breakfast at say 6am, they keep me full until 1pm/2pm. So for 170 calories it’s a “good value” meal for me and keeps me on track for the day.

SueBlue the voices in my head aren’t so helpful! You’re lucky.

Natalie – my voices aren’t always so helpful either – but I’ve been on BSD now for 17 weeks so they are learning!
They haven’t always stopped me from eating McDonalds, KFC, pizza, hot chips etc or drinking wine!
When I have succumbed though I tried to limit the calories, so I’d have a plain hamburger at McDonalds (250cals). But last time I was there with my daughters I ate a Greek Salad I’d made st home and brought with me!

I guess I did okay yesterday and registered around 660 calories but then I allowed myself a couple of drinks, still in the holiday frame of mind. I am going to give myself until the end of the weekend to ease myself back in but still no carbs.

My chicken something last night turned out to be a recipe from the book, lazy chicken and spicy lentils and it was really nice, one to repeat.

Today I have had scrambled eggs with chilli and cheese, lunch will be a salad of some sort and not even thought about dinner yet although I have just been to the supermarket and stocked up on meats, going to the big wholesale veg place this afternoon to buy lots of lovely peppers, courgettes etc. See what I mean about not getting my head around it yet. On Sunday I will sit down and do my usual weekly menu plan and will be seriously back on track. Oh, and I have lost 1lb since Tuesday.

Scales moved down 1lb today so that made me feel good. Breakfast was total yoghurt with a passion fruit and a few pecans and it was DELICIOUS! Lunch is two hard boiled eggs with spinach and a little mayonnaise- DELICIOUS. I am meeting a friend tonight for our evening meal and I have specifically chosen a Turkish restaurant and am planning on something like halloumi salad. There will be no rice or pitta for me. I am going to drink sparkling water 💦. Have been on eBay this morning and ordered size 12 linen trousers as the 14s I bought in anticipation for my holiday are now all too big! I never envisaged going down to a size 12 when i started this diet in January.

Horses for courses Verano. I find daily/weekly manual planning keeps me on the straight and narrow because I’m a rule follower – what it says is what I eat, and I can’t get on with apps! As always, if it works for you…

I’m loving the look of my very spartan fridge while husb is away. Fage is actually cheaper per 100g this week in smaller pots, so I have 5 of those lined up, a pack of feta, some M&S salads (extravagant I know, for leaves, but I don’t want to do washing up and I can eat them out of their ‘bowls) ‘, two cartons of raspberries and 2 tupperwares – cheese cubes and celery sticks – plus half a watermelon. The advantage of living in the country is no shops or late night garages so if it’s not there, I just have to eat a bit more of the good stuff. Just back from a coffee and a beach walk with a friend. Feeling positively zen … Mkx

Thurs 11th May:
B. 80g Apple + rhubarb, cooked without sugar; 60g sheep milk yoghurt; 10g slivered almonds✔
L. Salad, incl leaves, cucumber, tomato, avocado, fetta, coffee w 20ml fc milk, added 3 shaved slices salami, 30g red cabbage✔
D. Lamb cutlet🚫 changed to egg cooked with butter, didnt fancy the meat tonight, grilled tomato & mushroom, Haloumie, broccoli✔
S. corn thin, butter, peanut butter🚫 (if needed, thanks Natalie)
Plum, delicious but expensive for carbs, cals but did into plan✔
E. Pilates; 30 minute walk✔

Totals today: 820 cals; 48 carbs. Scales ok this morning but will wait until Tues to post weight. I’m such a self-sabotager, but maybe it’s OK to say “so far, so good”

Fri 12thMay:
B. as above
L. Baked beans w added herbs, parmesan cheese; coffee w 20ml fc milk
D. Not sure, 6.00pm bouncedown at home match. As we socialise pre-match (and post:) it means leaving home before 4pm. The friends all buy food there but not much GF for OH so we usually take fruit and nuts to share. Will prob do that.
E. 60min walk

SueBlue, 😁, I’ve been known to walk past my favourite tea+cake shop meeting audibly “keep walking, don’t need this today”. Didn’t realize I’d spoken aloud until I saw the bemused looks coming my way😑 Thanks for the reply re porridge. Its coming into the weather for it so may indulge now and then.

Verano, whatever works for you is the way to go for you, definitely.

ClarinetCathy, that is so wonderful for you. Congratulations on your efforts, just rewards 🙆👏

BTW, it’s probably time to select a theme for the next 4 weeks.
Any suggestions for something suitable for both northern and southern hemispheres?
I’m bereft of ideas at the moment.

For next 9 days am eating same thing every day.

Yoghurt & berries
Watermelon. Cucumber & Feta salad
M&s salad pot with 1 roast chicken breast
Snacks are 2 of either 6 almonds, 20g Cornish cruncher cheese & celery, one orange ( only 2 per week),
+ black decaf, mint tea, water with squirt of lime juice

+ 2 exercise sessions a day – walking, rowing machine, cycling, swimming.

Really looking forward to weighing on Tuesday after such super strictness. Mkx

Hot or cold, we’ll reach our goals?

Mk, that’s a good one. I like it😊

4 Weeks of strawberries or stew we all know what we need to do!

North or South – no carbs in our mouth!

Love it! Mkx

CC, I think you’re the clubhouse leader so far. Love it xM

MK I couldn’t live like that! I don’t even like the same breakfast every day. Whether I’m “on a diet” or not, all my meals for the week are carefully planned so that I have mix of proteins (beef, chicken etc) and cuisine styles (Italian, Mexican etc). No two days ever the same! Then I take into account whether I need leftovers, if I’m currently eating carbs, if I have a working oven etc. All with my favourite supermarket’s weekly specials catalogue in front of me.

It’s my 15 year wedding anniversary today and we’re going out to dinner. I should have a look at the menu beforehand. We rarely drink alcohol but dessert is certainly a temptation.

What about “Eight weeks to Natalie’s birthday” as a title!

Hey Natalie,
How crazy is that! It’s my 15 year wedding anniversary today too!

Hubby offered to take me out, but I’d rather stay home so we’re having roast pork belly with vegetables.

What a coincidence!
Cheers
Linda

Isn’t it awful, Natalie, but food has been my enemy my whole life, so that I now neither have, nor expect, any particular enjoyment from it. It’s just fuel, so it doesn’t matter if I eat the same every day and for my five years of low carb, that’s more or less what I did. Not exactly the same, but same sorts of things.

Am cursed with a husband who has a metabolism that allows him to eat carbs, drink wine and beer and never gain an ounce. He never eats sweets or anything at all between meals though. He measures his enjoyment in the boy food he likes best – school dinner type stuff, and puddings with custard – in the size of the portion rather than the quality of the meal – so although I am a good and keen cook and baker, and entertain regularly, he’d rather have a shepherds pie any day than what he calls ‘messed about’ food.

When entertaining or going out, it’s the company I relish, I never have great expectations about what I’ll eat, because it’s always a worry and always has been. I don’t drink alcohol because if I did, those empty calories would render me the size of a house.

Yet despite all this self restraint, since I was a child! – I was fed separately from my siblings and never allowed outside the house with pocket money because slimness was the only thing that counted with my frankly insane mother ‘this is my slim daughter and this is MK – she’s the clever one…’ . Really dread every visit to the GP because everything – EVERYTHING – that’s ever been wrong with me – even getting my appendix out – has been attributed to the 20- 30 or so immovable pounds that always stood between me and a 23 BMI. Lowest I’ve ever been is 24.5, only for a few weeks though. 26 is where I sit naturally when I eat low carb and exercise properly, less than 40g – and 1200 cals. Any more than that, and it’s 30 +

Yet genetically, me and my 6ft tall, 10 stone mum who drank like a fish and subsisted on chocolate consumed guiltily and apples and celery consumed in public both diagnosed with T2D at the same age. Her solution to her diabetes after the first lot of complications was to eat what she liked but spit before swallowing! Go figure.

Rant rant rant. Sorry. Sometimes this stuff really gets to me. Mkx

Happy anniversary Natalie & LindaA !

I’m with you all for CC’s title for our next challenge.

I hadn’t realised that this challenge ends on Tuesday I thought we had another week! I may not make my second target of 3.4lbs but it will be because of my own weakness. Never mind 4 days left to go and do my best.

I had a letter from my hip surgeon yesterday outlining the pros and cons of surgery. Looks like I have no choice. It’s amazing how seeing ‘overweight’ in black and white concentrates the mind! So now I’m on a mission. I need to take each day as it comes to get back into a proper routine. One day on and the next off just doesn’t work.

I just hit my 800/40 yesterday so pleased with that and will do the same today. I think I need to follow your ‘one day at a time’ mantra Marsie. Just have to stay on track anyway I can at the moment.

So Day 4 of 7 still time to make this last week count!

Have a good day.

Mk I have just read your post …. ours must have crossed in the ether!

That’s all very, very sad. Between your mother and your GP you stood no chance. Why oh why do we get so hung up on numbers. I always thought BMI was a rather arbitrary measure. You know you really are the ‘clever one’. You’ve taken control of your diet and your life despite those around you. Maybe, in time, you will get to enjoy food as well. It can be pleasurable as well as being fuel!

Rant as much as you want that’s one of the beauties of these boards. Well done for taking control of your own life!

My name is Maharini Kitten and I have a dysfunctional relationship with food. LOL.
Eating the same thing every day with no other reason to shop or cook is a very liberating thing.
I can think about other things! MK

MK I eat much the same thing every day too. I don’t have anyone to cook for, my son who lives with me is on a weight gain diet LOL. He’s at the gym every day aiming for a ”cut’ and muscly body for his wedding in September while I am aiming not to be the small dumpling in the parents of the groom photo!

I’ve also always been the clever one while my two slender sisters were the pretty ones so I know what you mean. Even in my early twenties when I was 8 st they were always slimmer than I was. And my mother never failed to point it out, even in company. She now can’t believe she did but I remember so well. I would have said it doesn’t bother me now but clearly it’s still there, rankling away 😳

Yesterday we were really looking forward to the smoked mackerel frittata for lunch – but it was so lovely and sunny that we decided to do a smoked mackerel salad with stilton cheese which took about 5 minutes to prepare so we could relax a little longer in the sun on the patio before I went to work. It was lovely – both the salad and the sun.

MK – it’s great that you have found a way of eating that works for you. I think that there are many ways to be successful on the BSD – and this forum is a really great way of finding out how other forum members are managing successfully.

MK – Im on the side of something different every day which is what keeps this plan interesting for me. That is not to say you are wrong, in fact, if I was on my own I would probably eat the same way as you. Whatever works for you is good.

Came in at 820 cals yesterday but somehow only 16 carbs but that cant be right and my salad showed no carbs, probably because I keyed it in myself without entering the nutrients so I guess I had around 40 carbs.

Weight down by 1.5 lbs and still not fully concentrating on the plan, i.e. 2 glasses of wine last night, but still low carbing and watching the calories.

The weekend is coming up so must get my good intentions head on. Have a good one everyone.

By the way, does anyone know when Doctor in The House comes back, been reading there is a new series soon.

Hi S-g I think it starts next Wednesday evening but not 100% certain.

Happy anniversary Natalie and Linda.

Mk – no wonder you have a “dysfunctional relationship” with food – well done you for taking control, and if eating the same every day and seeing it purely as fuel works for you, then good for you, I think you are inspiring.

I’m the opposite – the way I have been successful in cutting down is by seeing food as anything BUT fuel and I now take real pleasure and enjoyment from it. I now eat slowly and savour every single mouthful rather than just stuff myself. That’s what works for me – everyone is different.

O/H is always out on Fridays, so I do have the same every Friday evening – my indulgence of the week which I would NEVER have allowed myself pre-BSD, as I would have seen it as unhealthy!!! O/H would consider this breakfast, so can only have it if I am eating dinner alone – unless I cook 2 different meals.

Breakfast – Fage yoghurt and blueberries (same every day because I enjoy it so much – nothing else comes close!) Double espresso.
Lunch – water, black tea, maybe a couple of brazil nuts.
Dinner – 4 slices of thick cut ham, 2 fried eggs, grilled tomato and mushrooms. HP sauce. Large green salad with vinaigrette.
Snack – 5 brazil nuts
Will also be drinking water and weak black tea all day.
Total 20.69g carbs, 654 cals.

Now that I am on maintenance, I really need to up that level, but want to do it gradually to see where my limit lies. I may have a piece of fruit. Or I may take my fruit as a small glass of fermented grapes as it’s Friday! 😉

OMG Linda I just had PORK BELLY at the restaurant.

Twins.

Hi Natalie
That’s amazing, great minds think alike!
I hope you had a great night out!
Cheers
Linda

Hi S-g have just seen advert BBC 9pm Monday

Maharani kitten, I echo the thoughts of Verano, Theodora and KrysiaD.

I have great admiration for anyone who can overcome a childhood in a dysfunctional household. In my eyes you’ve bundled all that angst up, shoved it in a corner, and said “stay!” Any time any of those little beasties try to sneak out of the corner, you just kick them back as hard as you can and if venting on here helps you do that, you go for it.

Verano, whatever it takes to keep you focused, that’s what you do. I’m sure you’ve had many anecdotes about hip ops but I’ll just say that OH had his a couple of years ago, aged 78. He meticulously followed all rehab instructions and recovered quickly and well. Likewise for our then 46yr old #2 son a few months before his father. Good luck with all the lead-up.

Happy anniversary to the apparently like-minded Natalie and LindaA.

Totals for Friday 12th: 732 cals and a whopping 82g carbs. All that fruit….

Thanks V 🙂

What a supportive lot you are. April is a weird month for me, too many anniversaries that take me back, but am over, over, over it now.

Today I bought a lovely summer jacket in a UK size 14 and a pair of trendy ankle grazing trousers in a size 12 – the start of my new summer wardrobe. And my new tiny knickers make me Happy. Really Happy.

Happy happy weekends everyone. Stay strong!! Mkx

Oh, and V, echo what others have said. Hip ops are life changing, seen it happen twice. Good luck. Mkx

Happy days Mk

Scales friendly again this morning. Plan for today:

B. Apples cooked without added sugar, yoghurt, sliv almonds
(214cal/16.5gcarbs)
L. Salad
D. Thai style chicken patties, steamed vegs
S. Corn thin, butter, peanut butter (if needed)

B & L as above
D. Tomorrow = Mothers’ Day. Due to Grandies widely spaced soccer matches we’re having dinner at #2 son’s place, close by. Lamb roast, guess who’s been asked to do all the root vegetables (we always share)….said to Butterlover that i thought I’d have a tasting plate so I wouldn’t do my usual load the plate w pots,pumkin,parsnip,sweet potato. A little sad tomorrow as our first M Day without Mother/Nana

Have a good weekend, one and all xx

Good morning

Day 5 of 7

Yesterday was the second this week that I’ve stayed within my 800/40 so I’m happy with that. I’ve started to look at the recipe book again for inspiration. I’m really in a rut with food at the moment. Unfortunately, unlike you Mk, I need loads of variety in my diet otherwise I get really bored and that leads to mindless eating.

Thanks for your concern and encouragement for my hip op. I do actually have first hand experience of hip replacement and yes it is life changing. I had my right hip resurfaced in 2000 and it was great I was pain free again and you wouldn’t have know I’d had surgery. Then in 2007 I contracted septicaemia. Two surgeries later, to remove the hip, and then a further two to replace it, left my muscles on that side completely shot. I eventually walked again with a crutch. In time my left hip began to niggle so I started to use two crutches. Gradually over the last 12 months or so it’s started to cause me pain especially at night stopping me sleeping. I know it’s time for a new hip but there is a risk, albeit small, that I could end up worse off! At best the surgeon is pretty confident that he can get me back to one crutch, which would be great because at least I’d have one free hand! My two issues are that he has a concern about my weight, although he doesn’t seem greatly concerned, and the second is that they use an epidural instead of general anaesthetic!!!! He did say that they would use a general if the patient insisted so I’m sure we can get over that sticking point. I think my best plan is to just book a date and get on with it.

Happy Mother’s Day to all those celebrating (ours in the UK has been). Sorry yours will be tinged with sadness Marsie but try and remember the good times with your Mother/Nana.

Have a good weekend everyone.

Still sticking to the eating plan but dont ask about drinking….. Never mind, I will get my head back around it after the weekend. Gardening today so will get plenty of exercise.

Yoghurt and berries for breakfast, grilled bacon and halloumi salad for lunch and steak and veg for dinner.

I’m paddling about but keeping an eye on you all who seem to be heading for a successful end to this challenge.
X B

Oh, Verano, what terrible ordeals you’ve been through. You’ve mentioned before that you had mobility issues but now, knowing the details, I’d say you have a finely developed grasp of the ability to downplay. I can certainly understand your imperative to lose weight ie the less to support on crutches the better. #2 son had both shoulders reconstructed before the surgeon would do his hip. Not because he was overweight, quite the opposite with T1D, but his shoulders would not have borne his weight on crutches. And you had no need to hear that, I’m rambling.
Verena, you’re a real trouper and I wish you good luck and wellness through the entire process of decision making, operation and recovery.

And thank you for your mothers’ day wishes.

I’m posting my totals now, and going to bed. 10.30pm and I’m so tempted to pick. I made Thai style chicken patties tonight, using bought bottle of sweet chilli sauce. Not much sugar noted but perhaps that has woken the monster.
804cals/75 gms carbs . Kept to plan so far this week with rewards, but I haven’t told you that because I don’t want to push the self-sabotage button as well as batting off the carb monster. Nigh-nigh, now.

Really sorry to hear about your mobility problems, Verano. As Marsie says, no-one would ever have guessed how difficult it has been for you, understatement doesn’t even come close! Good luck as and when you go for the new hip.

Happy Mother’s day Marsie – and anyone else celebrating this weekend. “Firsts” are always difficult after losing a loved one, and mum’s are particularly special.

My menu today is:-

B – same as always, Fage yoghurt and blueberries
L – as always, skip lunch (never had lunch before BSD, so no reason to have it now)
D – poached salmon, hollandaise sauce, spinach, tenderstem broccoli followed by raspberries and a spoonful of Fage yoghurt.
As it’s the weekend, and I’m on maintenance, I will also have a glass of sauvignon blanc with dinner
Snacks will consist of a small piece of cambozola or half a dozen brazil nuts

Numbers for the day, excluding snacks but including the wine:- 720 calories, 20.79g carbs.

I am trying to increase my intake gradually, and am aiming to get up to 900 calories a day this week (first of maintenance).

Good morning

Day 6 of 7
Well just two days left of this last week and indeed the whole challenge. I can’t say that I’m doing very well really but at least I’ve lost my holiday weight plus a little more. I had a revelation yesterday …. stewed rhubarb! I stewed some rhubarb with an eating apple in the microwave. I just added a few tablespoons of water but no sweetener of any description. I had it for breakfast with my usual Total and walnuts. It was so lovely it was like a yummy dessert not a breakfast!! Anyway, I have half left which I will have this morning.
Last night I had a treat. Peppered steak with a glass of red, the first wine I’ve had in over three weeks. One glass was enjoyable but enough. I managed to stay within my 40g of carbs but my calories were way over with the cream in the sauce etc. But I really enjoyed it and it’s a rare treat.

Tonight we are out eating Greek which I can fit quite well into my plan with Greek salad and chicken kebab so looking forward to that.

Marsie, I only ‘downplay’ because I forget I have problems until I stand up!!!! You know I was ‘normal’ for such a large part of my life that I find it very hard now being ‘defined’ only by my mobility. Although I realise, that for people who don’t remember the old me, it’s how they see me. Anyway, not one to complain, I live my life doing what I can and not fretting over what I can’t! I hope your son had a positive outcome from his surgeries. He sounds as though he’s been through a lot.

Theodora considering you’re on maintenance you are keeping your carbs/calories really low. I wish I could get my head back into 800/30 but I have found that 30g of carbs is really difficult at the moment so I’m aiming for 40g and managing that. Maybe when the new challenge starts next week I’ll set part of my goal as 30g, even for just for two days a week.

Have a good day.