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Previous weight - 11st 2lbs

Current weight - 11st

Target weight 10st 6lbs

Food Log

Breakfast - Bran flakes with sultanas, tea

Lunch - Chicken and bacon layered salad

Dinner - southern fried chicken breast with veg

Dessert - salted caramel choc lolly

Snacks - 5x cherries, 4x blueberries, 2x raspberries, 2x strawberries, 1x apple, 1x fruit bar, 2x rice cakes

Declines - cookie, doughnut

Exercise

Walking - 40 mins

Comments

* Another pound off brings me to a significant mental barrier. Dipping below 11st feels like a real achievement and so it is pleasing to have got back to this point so quickly.

* The challenge is to maintain it. This 'austerity plan' is not sustainable. Part of the problem I experienced before was the gradual erosion of discipline; 1 packet of crisps per week became 2, always saying 'no' to cakes and biscuits became 'maybe'. And that is fine as part of a balanced diet, the difficulty for me was a steadfast refusal to accept my current weight as being good enough. I will need to carefully sift through what is a healthy dietary target versus an unhealthy mental health obsession.

* Friday has become something of a treat day (someone in therapy always described it as 'Filthy Friday') when the kids get McDonalds and so I allow myself something bought. With the debauchery of the Sunday pizza fresh in my mind (and stomach), I thought discretion was best employed. To my surprise then I found that the layered salad still felt like something of a treat.

* One of the challenges of this regime is what to eat on a daily basis. It came become tiresome having a dull meal in the evening whilst the necessity of eating lunch at work means my meal plans are limited. Add to the fact that I also prepare dinner for Karen, plus have to consider what the kids are eating, meaning that I either 1) compromise what I want for ease of cooking, building resentment at my meal and subsequently the whole healthy eating regime, or 2) end up cooking a hundred and one different things, leaving me little time in the evening for relaxation.

* Walking was restricted by other requirements today so I squeezed in as many strides as I could in the time allowed. I suspect that I won't be too pleasant to sit next to for the rest of the afternoon but then what's new?

* £3.19 headphones FTW.

* There is nothing quite like the smell of puke to make you want to puke.