Week 2 Weigh-In

1.6 kg loss for this week.

Hooray!

Day 14 of 21

After another monumental slip-up this evening, with an unexpected visit from one of the neighbours I'm nowhere near as much looking forward to tomorrow morning's weigh-in.

In a hurry to get back for post-ball clean-up this morning, I enjoyed some of last week's muesli for breakfast

instead of the recommended asparagus and scrambled eggs.

Which I've no doubt would have been lovely,

but time was of the essence.

Lunch was a very enjoyable Thai Prawn Salad

and then the best laid of plans

turned awry

with the arrival of one particularly wonderful neighbour.

Dinner was home grown pork cutlets with pototo bake and rocket/kumara salad.

And maybe a few too many drinks.

I wlil upadte second weak way-in tomorwwo moorning.

Day 14, done & dusted!

Fourteen down, seven to go.

Day 13 of 21

A little sidetracked last night with a most important social function in our small local town.

I therefore missed dinner from my wonder-plan, and indulged in a few drinks and some rather naughty canapes.

Breakfast and lunch did however meet requirements.

Breakfast was flat mushrooms with a dollop of a ricotta cheese mixture.

Beautiful for this mushroom fan.

Lunch was a pumpkin, corn and chicken curry with brown rice.

I did divert somewhat from the recipe, using a lovely red curry paste for the base.

Delicious.

And so I'm feeling a little deflated that I had a few drinks, but I always knew this would happen.

Back into Day 14 with a vengence.

People are actually commenting on my weight loss now

... which is nice!

Day 13, done and dusted!

Thirteen down, eight to go!

Day 12 of 21

People who don't drink are really missing out on some fantastic Friday nights.

In fact I'm not sure how they even know it's Friday.

All that said, I managed to get through my second Friday evening drinks-free.

Tough, but it's done.

Breakfast was to be the Bran & Cranberry Muesli (from last week) with sliced pear and yoghurt.

I passed on the pear and yoghurt and substituted half a banana.

Beautiful.

It's a surprisingly small serve, only 1/3 of a cup, yet is amazingly satisfying.

Lunch was a fairly stock standard egg sandwich.

The chives I was to add to the mashed egg mix, were a slimy mess in the bottom of my fridge.

Pass.

I also used multigrain bread instead of rye.

And dinner was beautiful.

So good, the kids had the same.

Ham, Tomato and Rocket Pizza.

Very tasty.

Couldn't walk today due to inclement conditions

...again!

Am drinking a lot of water, and really miss it when I don't.

Day 12, done and dusted!

Twelve down, nine to go.

Day 11 of 21

Over the half way point.

Broke my rule of only weighing once weekly and snuck a peek at the scales this morning.

Down over a kilo just this week.

Good stuff.

Today was probably the most disappointing with regards to the food on offer.

The menu looked good, but didn't taste so great.

Breakfast was a Watermelon & Berry Salad,

with added yoghurt and mint.

I noticed later, the recipe included cranberry juice,

which I omitted.

Don't know that it would have made much difference.

I'm just not a fruit lover to be honest.

I was looking forward to lunch,

a Chicken Waldorf Salad,

but was quite disappointed with it.

And dinner was Beef Rissoles with Beetroot Salad.

Very dry rissoles, as informed by my young dietary advisers.

Tomorrow's menu looks good.

Remaining optimistic.

Day 11, done and dusted!

Eleven down, ten to go.

Day 10 of 21

I can't believe how much I'm enjoying this diet.

No more hunger, just beautiful satisfying meals.

And I haven't had a drink for ten days.

I can really feel that I've lost weight, which is extremely motivating in itself.

This morning's breakfast was beautiful.

Ricotta and banana on rye toast,

drizzled with honey

and sprinkled with cinnamon.

Lunch was a beef, mint and cucumber salad.

The salad was supposed to include rump steak, thinly sliced.

As we'd had roast beef last night, I opted for that re-heated.

I've no doubt it would have been nicer with sizzling hot rare rump,

but was lovely all the same.

Dinner was to be Cumin fish with roasted corn salsa.

As we came in late, and the rest of the team were having chicken pieces with caesar salad,

I opted for cumin fish and caesar salad.

Possibly not the best flavour combination,

but good enough.

Went for my forty minute walk, finally a little drier in these parts.

Feeling great.

Day 10, done and dusted!

Ten down, eleven to go.

Day 9 of 21

Town day.

And only one photo to share.

A delicious Spinach Omelette for breakfast,

complete with ricotta spread Rye toast accompaniment.

I packed my mountain bread wrap, shaved turkey, snow pea sprouts and cranberry sauce and took it with me to town.

No photos unfortunately.

But delicious.

Dinner was to be Prosciutto wrapped Lamb with Roasted Kipflers, which I've no doubt would have been delightful, but returning home late to the smell of Roast Beef already cooking in the oven, I opted for Roast Beef and Green Veges.

Again, no photos.

A good day.  No walking, other than the thirteen kilometres throughout various shopping centres in search of black and white accessories for children attending this weekend's 'Black & White Ball'.

Day 9, done and dusted!

Nine down, twelve to go.