March 24th - Birthday Aftermath Tonight I am too tired to write anything terribly coherent - so a furthering of my thesis from a couple of days ago regarding emotional eating will not be forthcoming tonight.  I have been thinking about it on and off though, and so far it's ringing true for me.  As you may well be aware, it was my 31st birthday yesterday and I had a lovely day.  I had to go to work but apart from that it was great. Flopsy was attentive and lovely throughout the day and evening, people on the SFL Forum sent me lots of happy birthday posts, and I heard from family and friends.  A special thanks to Trish who managed to say happy birthday in just about every online medium imaginable, and she also recorded herself and her lovely children singing happy birthday.  Having a great day like that almost makes me forget about the relentless march of time that our birthdays mark off in yearly installments. I went out to dinner last night, I had six standard drinks for the night but I had them quickly and at the beginning of the night so I was pretty tipsy *hiccup*.  I'm reasonably happy with that, better than continuing to drink and go overboard - but I still enjoyed the feeling.  I know it's kinda un-politically correct to admit that you drink to enjoy the effect, but I am unashamedly admitting it.  I drink so seldom it's not a big deal to me, maybe once or twice a month at the most.  More interestingly, for the first time since I started this deal, I ordered my main meal without consideration to points/fat/calories (I had oven roasted rack of lamb on a bed of mashed potato, onion and sweet peas - with a side order of steamed veges).  I've been trying to work out today whether this is a problem or not, especially as I think I have become generally a little less disciplined in the last couple of weeks.  I think it is appropriate at times to indulge though, so I'm not going to worry about it too much.  I guess in some regards I did pay some attention to my ordering, because I didn't have dessert, I did limit my drinking, and I did request skim milk in my hot chocolate.  These things have almost become second nature though, so they don't feel like an effort any more.  OK, so I won't hit the panic button just yet.  Just for your interest, I haven't calculated the points for my meal last night because I don't know whether any fat/oil was used in the cooking. What I have decided though, is that I need to be more disciplined at home again.  I'm past the half way mark now, and these last few kilos will be harder to shift.  I don't want to get stuck hovering  a few kilos over goal.  It would be easy for me to settle now that I'm looking and feeling better. So today I had my usual breakfast of a small serve of cereal with skim milk, lunch was prawns with lettuce and free thousand island dressing, snacks were an apple and some low fat ham with a slice of bread, dinner was no-fat roasted veges (potato, sweet potato, pumpkin and carrot) with minted peas and low-point gravy, a piece of bread, and a small serve of WW ice cream with strawberry topping for dessert.  That makes it ....ummm (wait while I add it up) 16.5 points.  Which is about an average day for me.  I need to reiterate that I have a small appetite compared to most people.  I eat under points because otherwise I feel stuffed full.  I don't think other people should try and eat less to speed up their weight loss.  I'm just listening to my own body about what it wants. Anyway, I also want to reiterate that I am highly suspicious of my supposed rate of weight loss.  I'm pretty sure that WW scales are a bit dodgy, and I will let you know the rates of change on my new scales compared to the WW ones.  At the moment my new scales are reading about 0.5kg heavier than WW, but I will let you know exactly on weigh in day and thereafter. Let me say though that I don't think the accuracy of the scales should be a huge focus for people.  I am happy if I am eating healthy and travelling in roughly the right direction.  The only reason I'm mentioning the scales accuracy now is because there has been some recent discussion on the SFL forum about my rate of loss compared to other people. So to all of those who are also struggling with their weight - listen to your body, aim for healthy, and don't be a slave to your scales! Adios amigos! <<Back    Home    Next>>