It's the little things...

Well, I'm sticking to it but no progress in 3 days! It's disheartening when you feel a little thinnner and step on the scales to be greeted by the exact same weight (to the decimal point - which I don't believe in anyway!) that you saw yesterday and the day before! I suppose this is the downside of weighing oneself every day. I know a lot of people don't weigh every day for this reason but I find that the accountability benefit outweighs (forgive the unintended pun) the negatives. If I don't step on the scales nearly every day then I can start to drift away from my regime and my chimp's arguments start to gain a toehold. You know the ones - "have this now and you can catch up next week" or "you don't feel like running this evening - go swimming tomorrow instead" etc etc


If I weigh every day I know what progress I'm making or not making and can't hide from it. I'm more likely to have a sensible breakfast which sets me up for a sensible lunch and more likely to go swimming at lunchtime etc. At least that is the theory.


So, although I feel a little disheartened this morning, I know I've not done anything major wrong and I know I'll see some progress soon. But, if I'm honest, I haven't pushed as hard on the diet as I could have done. Yesterday wasn't bad but it wasn't stellar either. (Apologies for list of food but it helps sometimes):

Breakfast - 2 small slices toast (one with pate, one with jam) (no milk or yoghurt so couldn't have cereal or muesli/ fruit combo)
1 apple
1 orange
Lunch - sushi and yoghurt and 2 custard creams
1 banana
2 biscuits with coffee at french class
mushroom soup with 1 slice brown bread and butter
2 J2Os in pub as well as multiple sparkling waters etc

Not bad but 4 biscuits, J2Os instead of water or diet drink and toast for brekkie. It's an extra few hundred calories which weren't needed and could have made a small difference. I'm not going to get hung up on these sort of things overall but, every now and then, it helps to analyse exactly what I'm eating so that I can identify the small extras which can creep in. You know exactly what you're doing when you're scarfing a cake or 16 pints but you don't always notice the little things.


So - must be good this week as I really want to see half a stone off before this wedding at the end of June! Have a great Bank Holiday everyone but don't use it as an excuse to trough - it's not worth it!

PS. Typed this at lunchtime when I genuinely thought I would be going swimming but then work intervened and I didn't. So - am just going out for a run, with a post-supper, beachball PMT stomach - it'll be a very slow run!! Go me!!!