Free dinner and cheap clothes!

It felt like I made a free dinner last night because I just used up left overs and had a gorgeous feed. The rest of the spicy pork sweet and sour with some potatoes (very few), sweetcorn, peas and a couple of pineapple rings all together as a side instead of rice. And it was totally yummy! And left me slightly under my calorie allowance. I was going to get a big ASDA fat free yoghurt, but that would have taken me over by about 150 cals. That's actually okay, as even then, I'd only have had 1350 cals in the day, still low, even for a short-arse woman such as myself, but it's too close to weigh in to eat extra, so I left it. I wasn't at all hungry anyway, just wanted something, you know? When you don't need it, but fancy something sweet?

A quick sneak peek this morning, the first one this week (well done me!) showed about 1.5lb off. But there are a couple of reasons to take that with a pinch of salt. First, it's the week after my moons, and I usually weigh heavy, so come tomorrow, that weight might change. My "official" weigh in could end up differnt. Second, for some reason, I seem to weigh lighter on a Saturday. Don't know why, and it could be nonsense. I can't have Saturday as my weigh in day though, as about half of the time I'm at Mum's, having stayed the night on the Friday, and her scales hate me with a passion. So, no. That ain't happening. If I do end up weighing heavy, I have to remind myself that it's nothing I've done wrong this week. I've eaten well. Not just within allowance, but balanced. Not too much rubbishy use of allowance, just a few sugar free sweets, and a couple of yoghurts. So if my losses aren't what I'd like, I will try to remember that my body is definitely getting smaller as well as lighter. TMM's clothes tell me that when I try them on (and doesn't that still induce a massive grin!) and my own peepers tell me that when I look in the mirror. 

This morning, being a Saturday when TMM wasn't working and I hadn't spent the Friday night at my mum's, we went out for breakfast, though as usual, it was vey much brunch/lunch by the time we were actually eating. I had the fry up. It's a generous plate of food (for "generous" read "large") and I've previously saved it on mfp as about 900 cals. That's an estimate, and it could actually be a little more or less, but I don't think it's too far out. Thankfully, it's a very filling feed, and I won't need much else today. We ate late enough that it will be after tea time before I'm hungry again, and then I think I'll make a big pot of butternut squash soup. Low cal, but warming and satisfying. 

We took our time over breakfast, then did a quick look some charity shops and T K Maxx. I found a great dress for £5.50. Sure, you couldn't beat it. Then a shawl/wrap type thing in TKs. Now, I have to admit that I need another wrap about as much as Donald Trump needs to learn to be obnoxious, yet I couldn't resist. It had green in it, which matched the new dress and a redy, maroon that matched the DMs that I'm going to wear with the dress. How could I not buy it?

£5.50 dress from charity shop. Did I mention it's a size 16???

Dress with the vintage leather jacket that fits me again. Dress £5.50, jacket second hand from a friend, DMs birthday pressie from the sibs a couple of years ago. Pretty much that only thing bought at full price is the underwear (last week in M&S in Edinburgh FYI :-D )

And finally, the dress with the T K Maxx wrap (not so cheap, but still okay at £16. God, I've turned into Jeff Banks or something. And if that don't age me...)