Pour Some Sugar On Me

....not in the name of love, as Def Leppard requested, but because I have been craving bad carbs this week :-(

After losing 2lbs at the last weigh in, which I was deeply chuffed with, as I had been poorly all week (unfortunately my appetite, never goes when I am ill). I had missed out on my walks, which I had been steadily building up the weeks before, and for once in my life I had genuinely missed exercising - who'd have thought it!

So, this week, inspired by the lovely food tasting session we had at SW class - panacotta, 1/2 syn cake, savoury rice, home made houmous and a gorgeous tasty cous cous served in lettuce leaves (much better than it sounds, trust me) - I was all set to lose 4lb this week - taking me up to my 1 1/2 stone mark.

But, for some reason, I have craved carbs this week - we haven't much in the way of any in the house, which has saved me in part, as well as some low syn roulade, which I made...

 - but my husband, he who is also trying to lose weight (allegedly), has made his way through several large bags of chilli coated nuts, and there are still a few bags in the cupboard - so I had a small handful, and then another - and then when I worked out the damage based on an estimate of the weight I had consumed, I was shocked to say the least, lets just say it put me right off eating any more. After the initial shock, I was really annoyed with myself for jeopardising my weight loss this week.

Old dieting me, would have pretended I hadn't eaten those nuts, and that it hadn't taken me over my limit for the day, and carried on missing this little thing and that little thing off my diet sheets, self sabotaging until the inevitable weigh in.

But, instead, I drew a line under it, and moved on, trying to adjust my eating habits the next day to compensate for my over indulgence and get right back on track.

Last night, I got a lovely message from a work colleague who said that she had read my blog and that I had inspired her! Me, inspiring someone - well who'd have thought it! So she is also now back on it with a new diet, and a personal trainer. Hopefully when we next meet, we will both be significantly lighter :-)

That in turn has inspired me, as I was still feeling a bit low last night about my self sabotage, so I took action, contacting a friend who runs a Couch 2 5K program, and is about to start a walking for weight loss one too - so I've 'signed up' for that too, and it starts a week Saturday.

I'm also dusting off the swimming cossie, taking a chain saw to my 'Hobbit' legs, and braving the pool later for ladies night.....on my own!

Wish me luck this week for another loss.....