Sausages for dinner

I was soooo hungry when I got home from work. It finally occured to me earlier that it might be because I'm due my period. That's also possibly why I'm weighing heavy. But it's cold comfort when I'm sitting in work, it's 3.30pm, and I'm desperately trying to convince myself that I can wait till I get home to eat. I called to the shop in order to buy stuff to make a chicken curry. I thought I could make a satisfying meal, but stay calorie light by using grated cauliflower instead of rice.

I was delighted when I got home to discover that TMM had started to cook dinner. I was disappointed though to see he was cooking sausages. I guess I just assume that he knows what is high in cals and what is not. But he didn't think there was any problem with sausages. It's not even as if they are "good" sausages. The ones we like are really cheap. The closest they've probably come to actual pork will have been when they were delivered to the shop, if they were driven past a field with a pig in it!  

I hate to appear like an ungrateful wretch. It's so lovely to come home and have dinner cooked for one. But I'm trying so hard to be good, and I'm nearly five weeks in. I really wasn't keen to have sausages. But I calculated how much of my allowance was left. I had nearly 800 cals to play with. It's a Hugh advantage to eat so lightly at work. Half of the sausages came to 450. And there were enough cals over for spuds, carrots,  broccoli and samphire. If I wasn't such a greedy hallion, I wouldn't have eaten half of the snags. I could easily have left some of them. But I was hungry and I had the allowance to cover them. So I ate them. And I have to say, it was a very filling meal. Far more satisfactory than the big bowls of soup last night. Protein definitely adds to the satiation factor. 

Today is yet another day when I hit my calorie goal almost exactly. I haven't managed this week to make up for going over on Sunday.  And I haven't saved any cals, so I can have a comfortable cushion of extras for going out to dinner tomorrow night. I will have to be very careful with food at work tomorrow,  make sensible choices when I'm out and then make up any deficit on Saturday, before weighing in on Sunday. It hasn't been a straightforward week.

Oh, the trials and tribulations of watching one's weight!