3rd September 2018
Stop trying to calm the storm, calm yourself, the storm
will pass.
“Don’t wake Bev up!” 4 words I dread to hear, normally because
I was asleep before she shouts them in what mom thinks is her whisper voice! This morning though around 5ish, I was awake
because she’d already woken me at 3.45am with the noisiest visit to the
bathroom you can possibly make, she doesn’t just empty her commode, I’m sure
she uses it as a drum and plays a tune as she rants away to herself with lines
like ‘if this is living…’ and ‘what have I done to deserve this life’, I did
manage to doze off, then an hour later I could hear her quietly – NOT – looking
for her Rennies, honestly the woman is like a baby elephant but a very lovable
one.
It’s 7am now, Alfie’s already been walked and I feel like
I’m going to have a productive day, the second in a row. Yesterday I met Lynne for breakfast at
McDonalds, she loves them so I decided to give them a go, nope still don’t like
their breakfasts, I love a Big Mac but I don’t get the pre 10.30am menu at all,
other than the orange juice. When I left her, I popped to Waitrose for my
happy hour of browsing round and looking at the shelves, I had a coupon too and
now my fridge is full of good, healthy food.
I have to say though it was the coldest shopping trip I’ve ever done, I
was in the one at Lichfield and the fridges seemed super cold, I was dithering
by the time I got to the safety of the canned section.
I was home by noon and felt quite energised so I started putting
away my food and cleaned the fridge before doing so, then it escalated, before
I knew it I’d done the washing up and completely cleaned everywhere downstairs,
hovered, mopped the floor the lot. I do love a tidy house, I’m going to tackle
upstairs today, who knows my office might even get done this week, but let’s
not get too ambitious.
The thing about cleaning the kitchen is you then don’t
want to start cooking because it’ll make a mess again, so I opted for easy so
as not to make too much mess, for dinner I really enjoyed cod fish cakes with
cheddar and lemon (7SP) and 2 potato waffles (3SP each) with green beans and
beetroot.
For my tea last night I had a delicious sushi & tofu
bento, the gumph on the box says; White
& black rice vegetable rolls, baked marinated tofu on top of shiitake
mushroom & coriander salad & mixed vegetable sushi rice served with
sweet potato & carrot salad, pickled red cabbage & spicy sesame
dressing, chopsticks included – it was delicious for 11SP.
I went way over on my Smart Points allowance but I
managed a maintain on the scales this morning – no shame in a maintain! So I officially lost 5lb throughout August, I’m
very happy with that, now to chip away at it and try and lose a little more
before Christmas because I know what will happen then!
To help me do that, today I’ve got a kitchen with a bowl
of fruit in it that I intend to start eating, a fridge full of good healthy
food and thanks to my 28 days of eating well last month, I realised I already
do eat pretty well so I just need to continue doing that, keep the portion sizes
sensible and stop having those odd treats I don’t need and only have because
they’re there – damn you Walkers cheese and onion!
Here’s to a fresh week, a magic Monday, having
a very great day, looking for the smile moments and focussing on creating those
healthy habits for life, one of which for me is drinking a pint of water every morning, what healthy habits have
you got in place.
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