Friday is weigh day and I was excited today because I have basically been really good this week.  I really had been good.  I lost 3 pounds this week which puts my loss this year so far at 26 pounds.  I am very happy with that.  I found it all quite easy last week which is a relief.  I didn’t have to do battle with my inner demons and I found it easy to choose healthy things to eat.  I actually wanted to eat plants and not a lot else.

At least I did until I had some pineapple for breakfast today.  I had half of a sweet and perfectly ripe pineapple.  I enjoyed it to start with but then my tongue started to burn or at least feel as if it was burning.  I have experienced this mildly before but never this strong. I should have stopped eating it but I didn’t.  I regret that now because my tongue and the back of my throat have been painful ever since and I actually feel quite unwell.  That may be me done with pineapple for a while. For lunch I made a salad a colleague at work had recommended I try.  Spinach with 1 tbsp sultanas, 1 tbsp toasted pine nuts and less than a tbsp each of maple syrup and olive oil. I added cherry tomatoes to the salad and because I wanted some comfort food, I also boiled a potato and steamed some broccoli.  I have come a long way because in the past, “comfort food” would have been refined carbs such as cake or a cheese toasted sandwich.  Today it was potato and broccoli. The salad made my tongue hurt.  It seemed to be the tomatoes and sultanas.  The 2 dates I ate while I prepared this lot also made my tongue hurt.  I was feeling fed up.  This was lovely but I confess I did add some butter.  Butter is the one thing I find hardest to give up.  I would have thought it would be cheese but it is actually butter.  I don’t want it very often but today I did and it was lovely, melting over these lovely vegetables. I shut down my lap top at 5:00 on the dot today so my long weekend could begin.  I wanted to see a beautiful flower on my kitchen window sill and this was the prettiest one  I could find in my garden.  A beautiful pink camellia. Well actually it’s 2 cuttings, one of which had a double flower.  Isn’t nature beautiful? I also find certain objects very beautiful, such as these white pots.  They look like paper cups but they are a very fine matt ceramic.   They feel lovely to touch and I like the way light comes through them.  I bought them in Stockholm last year. I continued to feel quite rotten in the evening.  A snooze helped a bit but not much.  All I fancied for supper was banana nice-cream with almond butter and cacao powder. I had it topped with coconut.  The smooth coldness was lovely on my still sore tongue and throat.

I think my love affair with pineapple is currently on hold.