Today was my one S day, and boy have I needed it! Life is a bit stressful at the moment. I was notified of my job being made redundant back in March and left work in April. I have done nothing other than look for the right job- I am the breadwinner so it needs to enable us to at least pay the mortgage- and I have been messed about quite a bit going the length and breadth of the country interviewing for jobs that didn't in the end exist. It's come to a bit of a head recently and I have found myself getting more and more low in mood...as a previously very regular exerciser I have struggled to even get out of the door some days recently,and my intentions to focus on this regime was just not happening. However, I did give myself a kick up the bum recently as I believe that sorting my diet and exercise out will make me feel much better, which is why I am checking in daily so I can focus on a routine. My husband has had to work outside of the UK this week so I am on my own, which isn't good for me at the moment and I really had to fight the urge to eat all day today- and although things are allowed on an s day I can do some serious damage when I am in this kind of mood! So I got rid of all the things that I might have a problem with- breakfast cereal, bread, crackers, ice cream- all in the bin! I also knew that I needed comfort food today so I decided to do that but have them as meals.
Today I had:
A breakfast muffin and preserves with coffee at about 10am
Lunch was out at a garden centre- keeping busy buying plants: a very unhealthy lunch but very nice: Coffee with a mini shortbread and a piece of raspberry tea cake which was absolutely gorgeous but crammed with cals I bet lol. One large apple to follow. Actually with the fresh raspberries and apple that was two of my five a day
Dinner was a homemade pizza with lots of salad and home made coleslaw- made with red cabbage, carrot and red onion and extra light mayo. It was a large plate but as I made it all myself I know what went in to it all at least! Then I had local strawberries and I am going to have a low fat hot chocolate before I go to bed. I know it has artificial sweetener but everything else I have had today has been from the local farm shop and allegedly organic!!!
And the net result- yes my calorie count and fat intake will be higher than usual today- I guess that's the idea of an S day- but I am really full up due to loads of fruit and veg mainly and I don't feel like raiding the fridge.
So today was, for me, a definite success, hurray!
I hope you all don't mind me having a bit of a moan- I am trying not to feel sorry for myself and it's helpful to get it all off my chest to "virtual" friends
Thanks All
SusieB
