Thank you all for your responses. Oh well, maybe on high days and feast days then. I am not diabetic but have been diagnosed with high blood sugar due to excess weight and have 4/5 stone that I would ideally like to lose, although to be fair at my age (53) I would be happy with 2-3 stone. I am not strictly following any particular diet as such but keeping to low GI foods and obvious carbs, cakes, biscuits, ice-cream, chocolate etc. I am still eating occasional new potatoes, last night for e.g. I had cod baked in a foil bag with lime, black pepper and butter, this was accompanied by 4/5 new potatoes, green beans and creamed spinach. Lunch today was an omelette but with 3 left over new potatoes fried with the peppers and spring onions, topped with cheese. Dinner tonight was a chicken stew made with barley and vegetables, served with broccoli, asparagus, green beans and creamed spinach (are you detecting a theme here with the spinach).
I have been doing this since Monday and I have also been taking in FF Greek Yogurt topped with fresh strawberries and frozen fruit topper (peach, mango, grapefruit) for breakfast. I will definitely lose weight this with as my body is used to having an ice-cream lolly and usually chocolate as well on at least 4/5 night out of 7. The jury is out on exactly how much weight I can lose but so far this week I have lost approx 2.5lbs (i know water weight but its a good start)