I was very bad last night.  I had a lovely glass of wine while chatting to a friend which led to a second.  Which for some reason led to a toast and Marmite binge.  The only positive thing I can say is that I didn’t go for anything more calorific than Marmite.  Another good thing is that I ate all the bread so there is none left so I couldn’t be tempted again today.  I was very disappointed with myself.

So I woke up today determined to do better.  I wanted to eat protein, lots of vegetables and low carbs.  Despite a big battle with myself mid-afternoon, which I won (i.e. I had nothing more than a cup of tea) I think I did ok today.

I worked from home today which always helps.  I made myself bacon and lightly wilted spinach for breakfast.   I was very careful to cut the visible fat off the bacon.  Bacon and spinach goes really well together so I will be having that again. I did have 2 coffees today with some single cream.  Not a great idea on a diet but David Gillespie (author of Sweet Poison) said I can so I did! I have been very busy totally stressed out at work recently.  Today was no exception as I struggled to write a paper I am finding very challenging.  I found a box of aromatherapy goodies when I was looking for something else at the weekend so today I lit a joss stick for the first time in ages.  I am not sure if it helped relax me but I liked the scent of Patchouli and Ylang Ylang.  The inner hippy inside me is alive and well. Lunch was very easy to prepare and made good eating. 4 spinach falafels which were spicy and a lovely dense and firm consistency.  I just warmed them up in the oven while I prepared the salad. A jacket potato with butter and cheese.  Quite a modest amount of cheese I hope you will agree. A huge pile of salad; lamb’s lettuce, cucumber, spring onion, carrot and half a yellow pepper.  No dressing as I had enough fat in the cheese and butter. Sometimes people ask me if I give Harvey the same food as I eat.  I do when I can or make a simple variation.  Tonight was a simple variation occasion.  Harvey wanted pasta but I am trying to cut down carbs so I did not.  I put his pasta on to cook and thought about a sauce to add with it.  I cooked up some onion, mushrooms and tender stem broccoli in a little coconut oil. When the vegetables were softened I poured in a jar of sauce and half a packet of pine nuts. Harvey and James had pasta with vegetable sauce.  This was only slightly more time consuming to make than just heating a jar of sauce to go with the pasta but it gave them the added nutrition of 3 vegetables and pine nuts for protein. I had the same sauce with 4 more spinach falafels, some Parmesan cheese and a heap of green leaves.  It was really good and we all enjoyed our meals.

As long as I do not hit the wine or anything else this evening, this will have been a day of good eating as I had lots of veggies and not too many carbs and no added sugar.

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