Just cut the horns off

Dinner with the girlies was great craic last night. My two sisters and four of my cousins and I went out for the evening and had a ball. It's not very often we all get together so I'd been looking forward to it.  Not so sure I was equally looking forward to the loss of control that eating out entails. But it was made easier when no one wanted a starter. I figured I'd had a main and a dessert. But then no one wanted dessert either. So that made things much healthier. I would definitely have had sticky toffee pudding otherwise. But it's all good. It will be better for weigh in tomorrow and left me with more possibilities today.

As far as my meal was concerned, mmmm I feel a Homer Simpson-esque drool coming on. I had a 10oz skeak, rare of course. (Hence the phrase "Just cut the horns off".) I had parmesean chips as well. But even allowing for fried chips with a bit of cheese, I reckon I finished the day only a couple of hundred cals over. No dessert, not such a bad thing, I'm thinking in hindsight.

I finally told Mum about my loss so far over the past month. She's well pleased for me and very supportive. She was very keen to hear how I'm doing it. She's really not a big user of technology. Let's face it, she's really daft when it comes to it. That's not an insult, should she ever read this. It's just the way it is. She's certainly never going to own a mobile phone so she'll never use the MFP app. I told her about it though and she thought it was great, especially the way I can plan and count recipes with it. She had me count a couple of her soups. I was surprised at hoe light the lentil one turned out, so I made that today.

When I told one of my sisters, she was all for me starting to work out with her. She does a lot of strenght training at a gym in Belfast. She goes in really early, before work. I coukd do that. That was my time to run. But I need to decide if it would be realistic to join a gym in Belfast. Would I stick with it? I have a few pounds to lose before I'm going to start any regular exercise.

But enough.  Fingers crossed for weigh in tomorrow morning.  Wish me luck. Please.