1066 All Stars

Current weight - 11st 3lbs

Short term target weight - 11st

Long term target weight - 10st 6lbs

Food Log

Breakfast - Bran Flakes with sultanas

Lunch - Jacket with spaghetti, cheese and chicken leg

Dinner - Chicken curry with veg

Dessert - Mince pie

Snacks - Apple, brunch bar, handful of gone off blueberries, crisps, Go Ahead fruit bar (pack of 3), Go Ahead biscuits (x2)

Drinks - 1.5l water, tea

Exercise

Walking - 1 hour

Thoughts

* Crisp day! Although I made sure to buy some with a low calorie count. Every Little Helps.

* I thought about getting up to go on the exercise bike this morning in case my lunchtime walk was rained off but decided against it on the basis that I was already tired after a couple of nights of disrupted sleep. Aiden's subsequent early rise vindicated the decision. It is important to recognise these decisions; rather than blundering on, grinding myself down, feeling tired and resentful, I made a sensible choice to forego the bike, even if it cost me that day's exercise. Clearly some activity is preferable but it is reassuring that I have reached a point of being able to make a balanced, thought out decision without the guilt or anxiety that usually accompanies it.

* A better day mood wise today. A less disrupted sleep has no doubt helped but I have also noted a pattern where my mood is low(er) on Monday and Tuesday and I seem to emerge into light by Wednesday. I'm not sure why. There is the obvious cause of nearing the end of the working week of course but given that a lot of my stress comes from parenthood, rather than from work, I'm not sure it is that simple. One to keep an eye on.