More home made soup for tea is...

...carrot and coriander. This was last night's dinner. Like the pepper and chilli, it's extremely easy to make, and today, it was even quicker because I used ready prepared carrots and onions. I was in a bit of a hurry, as I was going out for coffee with some friends after work, but I wanted to eat something beforehand. I didn't want to be hungry and tempted to have buns or cake.

It used exactly the same method as most of my soups. Roughly chop the veg (in this case three onions and about six carrots), stick in a pot with chicken stock cubes (three, but do to taste as I like my food quite salty. Yes, I know it's bad for me.) herbs (fresh coriander and three heaped teaspoons of the ground stuff) and water (about a litre and a half), simmer till veg are tender, then blend with the hand blender.

The whole point, when I planned this earlier today, was to enable me to have some calories to play with so I could have the aforementioned buns or cake with my coffee when I went out. But halfway through the afternoon, I had a real yen for something sweet with my coffee in the office, and I ended up using the planned extras for some chocolate caramel sweets. I enjoyed them and they stopped me going off the rails, but in the end, I was actually sorry that I hadn't used my allowance for something more sensible, like some lean protein. I ended up very hungry when I came home from meeting my chums.

I know two of them from having been in Slimming World together. We are all currently lapsed, but talked about going back. I think though, that while I'm sticking to my plan on MyFitnessPal, I'll save the weekly fee and just see how I get on. I'm an old hand at this weight loss game by now. I know what I should be doing. Of course, clearly, that doesn't mean that I do it, hence the weight gain. It's very simple, but I didn't say it was easy!

The lesson from yesterday is that I need to eat some protein at lunchtime today to stave off massive hunger pangs.