Day One - DONE!!

Made a decision half way through the day to not track my points but to just track my food. I am just doing this for the first week, be it detrimental or not, to see what I am doing without the points. So at the end of the week I am going to point up everything that I ate for the week and see how close I was to what I needed to be. This is to see whether I am capable of making my healthier decisions, still keeping to approx point values, but without the constant point counting. We'll see if it works next Thursday morning. I know - a bit dangerous on my first week but I think, if these changes are for life then I really need to see how I am gauging my intake by my hunger/choices and see if they match up with what I should be doing. After that it will be points.

As for the first day, well!! I didn't realise how bad I had become at picking at food every time I enter the kitchen. There is a part of my subconcious that just takes over and makes my hand reach to put food in my cakehole. It started as early as breakfast when I reached for Phoeb's leftover crusts without even thinking. Terrible!! And then every time I went in the vicinity of food I was actually having to stop myself from reaching out for something to shove in my gob.

So I had a few mental struggles but I got through them.

Had Tuna with garlic and olive oil on a baked potato with a baby rocket and spinach leaf salad. And an orange.

Dinner was a Lamb chop with one potato and more salad.

After dinner, "it's bloody hot but I ain't having an icecream" treat was a Fruju. From memory these are only worth about 1 - 1.5pts. Blair had a waffle cone with orange choc chip and hokey pokey icecream and a Fruju. Obviously thinks he needs it!!


All in all I had a good day with plenty of good food and plenty of water, although not enough to reach target. No snacking, apart from a scheduled afternoon coffee with biscuits (2), but all planned for.

Feeling good.