Friday feeling!

The good weather continues and so does my good mood and optimism. It's been a glorious week, and while I've had to go to work (really, in Northern Ireland, it should be declared a public holiday when the weather's this good!) it's been lovely even looking out my office window at it. The weekend beckons, with TMM working tomorrow but off on Sunday, so we are both going to Mum's for baby bro's birthday. Two full days on which to be good and continue to lose weight and work towards three stone off, and getting into the lower end of the fifteen stone bracket.

To that end, I have today's meals already worked out. I'm going to make a beef curry this evening and have it with carrot "noodles" instead of rice. That means I can have a good, bulky, filling meal minus all the calories of rice. It should see me staying within my allowance easily. I just use a special peeler on the carrots, with teeth instead of the flat blade that a peeler normally has. It cuts the carrots into narrow, spaghetti-like noodle thingies. Then I cook them off in a big pan or wok with a little garlic flavour one cal fat spray. (I'm going to turn into a bulb of garlic one day!) Because they are carrot, they can be quite sweet (though a good dose of black pepper can sort that out) but I like that. Might not be to everybody's taste, but it means I eat about ninety calories instead of over 300, which would be my count for rice. A slightly sweet flavour is a small price to pay for that sort of cal trade off.

TMM finishes work early today, as do I. I'm not heading to Mum;s since we're going on Sunday, so perhaps we can go out for a dander after dinner (and my ab and bum exercise, day three today) this evening. The weather's due to continue to be nice, and a wee walk by the sea would be gorgeous as well as calorie burning. I'm so lucky to live by the sea!