Total control

I really fancied a Chinese takeaway last night, but made a beef curry instead. Still relatively high in calories, but that was down to quantity rather than poor quality ingredients. And I knew exactly what went in to making it, so was able to account for it accurately. At least I controlled the content if not the amount that I ate. 

I seem to have hit a couple of days that there's not much to write about. I feel a bit guilty not updating yesterday, but there's only so much even I can waffle about. It's been a quiet couple of "just getting on with things" days. I've eaten within my calories, and managed not to step on the scales. I've not eaten chocolate, as I've used all my allowance on actual food. Having lost over two and a half stone, I'm surprised that my allowance hasn't gone down yet, but I'm not going to argue. The idea of eating less than 1200 cals a day does not appeal to me.

This evening I went to the class again with Penfold and Smiley (her next door neighbour, who's a lovely girl) Although there is no prescibed food programme with this class, the weight loss was good this week, and most people were in a great mood. The wee talk was lively and motivating. The exercise was as tough as last week, but at least this week I knew what to expect. I got sweaty and out of breath, so I burned some calories. All good! And I lost three and a half pounds off last week's weight. I don't count this as my true weigh in. My Sunday morning one is the real one. It's not easy to see the scales on a Wednesday evening show me as at least half a stone heavier than my own morning weight, but as long as it keeps going down, I'll not mind too much. And I just have to keep telling myself that it's Sunday morning that counts. It is lovely to go on to the myfitnesspal app and log half an hour of aerobic exercise, which shows as earning over three hundred calories. Yay! 

Dinner was a hodge podge of left overs, but all within cals. My only dilemma is whether or not to have chocolate, which would have to come out of my earned exercise calories. It wouldn't use them all, but would certainly eat into a fair percentage of them. After seeing that in black and white, I think I'll leave the chocolate alone for today, and save the calories.