14th June 2011
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
At the weekend we all snuggled on the sofas Sunday morning and
watched Eat, Pray, Love, what a great movie and definitely one I want to watch
again, it was full of thought provoking quotes and words of wisdom – whilst also
being a great story. In one scene
there’s an Italian barber talking to Julia Roberts who’s playing the lead role
American lady, this is what he says about the Americans, but I think you can
include us Brits in this too;
“You don’t know how to enjoy yourselves. You work too hard then you get burned out and
spend the whole weekend at home in your pajamas in front of the tv. You know how to
have fun, but you don't know the pleasure of little things, you have to
be told you’ve earned it.”
How scarily true is that!
He then went to talk about "dolce far
niente", the sweetness of doing nothing." I know so many people who are afraid to stop
or feel they can’t stop because they have so much to do and if it doesn’t get
done…..
Italy has been on of the last places to
visit on my bucket list but I’ve never wanted to do the tourist bit of visiting
the sites, I just want to sit outside a restaurant with a glass of red wine,
eating a big bowl of spaghetti whilst watching the world go by and I’m thrilled
because yesterday, I booked to do just that for a weekend with Chantel next
year – whoop whoop, can’t wait.
Until then, I also intend to practice
the art of "dolce far niente" here more often because that barber was
right, we do overdo it and don’t “stop to smell the roses” anywhere near
enough!
So it was the big weigh in last night,
my first time of being weighed by another leader in a few years and I was a
little bit scared in that queue knowing I had a great weekend of fizz and food,
so I was relieved when I lost ½lb, Katie lost 4½lb and Vicky lost 1½lb so all
is good and we’re all on track for another loss next week. My only obstacle this week is the good food
show on Friday but if I save all my weekly and activity ProPoints for then I should
be ok. I want to weigh in under that
next stone bracket next week, it’ll be the first time this year and I’m only
3lb off being able to not pay to attend meetings ;D which is even better, my
monthly pass runs till June 5th so I’m planning to have done that by
then.
I managed a great day yesterday, had
1pp left out of my allowance, and I had the most delicious tea for 8pp plus a
big glass of red wine for 6pp, last week I didn’t drink from Monday – Thursday and
I got the most amazing sweet tooth so I’ve decided that doesn’t work as
normally I don’t want sweet things at all.
My tea was a plate of bits and bobs, including bresaola
beef from Sainsbury’s taste the difference, olives, pepper, courgette,
apple tomatoes, Weight Watcher crackers and cheese triangles, I really enjoyed
it and it took me ages to eat too as I ate it with my fingers.
Yes I have
to admit I really do like eating the right kind of food, I eat the junk such as
pringles but I can honestly say when I’m doing it I’m not really enjoying them,
it’s almost an automatic thing that I do quite quickly too! I zone out when I eat foods like that whereas
I zone in when I eat food like that in the photo above.
I’m cooking
the oriental salmon recipe from the Simply Enjoy cook book today for 8pp, mmm,
hungry already ;D
Have a
fabulous day, the sky looks glorious. xx
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