At
least that’s January out of the way.
February is grim but at least there’s pancake day. Admittedly, not good for weight but very good
for cheering up purposes.
Which
brings us on to....
Yeah,
I did okay last week – I lost 2.5lbs. The
reason I’m not jumping in the air, punching it in the manner of an 80’s rawk
god, or indeed a grey politician (yes, Mr Duncan-Smith, I’m looking at
you. Although trying not to.) is that
SoD is busily informing me that ever since that point (and indeed slightly
before it), my weight is going in the wrong direction.
As
of today, I’ve put 2lbs of that back on.
Sigh. I hope that by Thursday
(next WI) I can turn that around as I have two starve days in between now and
then (today and Wednesday) but sandwiched beautifully in between those two
days, in a somewhat ironic juxtaposition, is pancake day. I had thought we’d be having Shrove, er,
Friday as I was due to meet a friend, but work is such that I’ve had to pretty
much cancel all social occasions for the month.
Of
course, I could skip pancakes entirely (whimper) but you know what? I don’t want to. I hate this time of year and this is pretty
much the only bright spot in a desert of grimness. A dessert in the desert, if you will... I am a pancake purist so it’s only heavy on
the lemon, light on the sugar rather than drifts of cream, buckets of nutella
or the like, but we all know that there are no diets which feature
pancakes. Or do we – if you know of one
PLEASE tell me stat.
The
thing is, I need to accept – ideally not begrudgingly – that it’s not what you don’t eat that counts when you stand
before (or indeed on) SoD. As is
reflected in my stats so far this week. Intuitively I feel that every time I don't eat something that I want to, that there should be a small commensurate downward movement on the scales as a reward. Thursday was a charity cake sale at work. Now, this is, in some respects a tale of
virtue: I had two v small slices and chucked a 3rd away after one
bite as not worth the calories (it was a wrench even so). For this I forewent breakfast and lunch. But clearly that is not enough. Again, we were away for the weekend so I was
v cautious in other meals and tried to minimise damage but dinner with friends at
their house was the most difficult to negotiate.
All
this caution is against the backdrop of a tricky time at work with a ready
supply of chocolate – it’s not easy. I
do keep reminding myself of the holiday though.
At the WI I thought I was in with a chance of hitting my target pre-hols;
now, not so much. Anyway, let’s see
where 2 starve days, pancakes-by-exception and discipline takes me. It’s got to be better than where I am now, in
any case. Pancakes notwithstanding.
I’m
still finding the Jane Plan lunches hard.
The breakfasts are more than I’m used to and tasty too, dinners are
quite meagre but mainly palatable (I’ve had meatballs – really nice, and tuna
pasta – okay but rather tasteless) but the lunches are small and at best
tasteless (broccoli and cheese soup – smelly, and bean salad – not pleasant). But they’re not horrible like Lighter Life
bars were so it could be a lot worse.
1 comment:
Re pancakes - YES to loads of lemon juice and a scant whisper of sugar. Although, in recent years we've rather fallen in love with the April Bloomfield tip of combining European crepes with American bacon and maple syrup and it is, truly, a thing of beauty.
Your posts always make me smile (wryly) because most people would say "Frabjous day! I lost 2.5 lbs!" - end of sentence. But your first sentence is "I lost 2.5 lbs" and then you spend the rest of the post telli us that a) you've already put it on again, b) you didn't deserve it in the first place or c) both. I wish you could take more pride in your steps forward.
Jane plan: my immediate thought is, could you split breakfast into two mini meals? Maybe one at breakfast time and one to bolster lunch? Or is that counter to the rules?
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