209lb

It's not much, that 0.8lb, but it's better than I thought I was going to do. So I'll take it and be grateful. I thought that I was surely heading for a STS (stay the same) because of all the unpromising sneak peeks.

Today I have stayed within the 1200 cal allowance.  Given the nearly three and a half stones loss, I am really surprised that the allowance hasn't gotten smaller. But perhaps it's not going to get smaller than that. It's already quite a tiny amount of daily food for a grown woman. I do find it difficult sometimes not to go over. A lot of the time, it's down to plate envy, looking at TMM's dinner and wanting what he's having. Tonight he had beans on toast, with low fat sausages and smoked bacon. I had homemade potato and leek soup with three low fat sausages. (See above pic. Discovered them a few weeks ago and I love them. They're only about forty-five cals per sausage and both the flavour and texture are great.) Don't get me wrong, my food was lovely. His just looked more and I'm greedy. I want more. But if I don't have enough calories, I need to just suck it up and make/eat what I can "afford." I always feel better about my efforts if I do.

Both today and yesterday, I earned a couple of hundred extra calories. I walked with Mum yesterday and this morning TMM fancied taking the air before having breakfast. And we were very good. We ate in instead of going to our fave caff for a big fry. We had scrambled eggs and salmon and toast. Saved money and calories :-)

Anyway, that's a good, positive start to the week. Here's to the rest of it going the same way.