My diet's still going well … no alcohol, sugar, bread, potatoes etc., and I'm still fasting a minimum of 18 hours a day, I reckon, and feeling good on it.
And although I'm much happier following absolute rules, a few wee cracks appeared this week. I had some of C's veggie tempura at Wasabi when we went for lunch. The content was asparagus and avocado but there was some tempura batter, obviously. No biggie, right?
I was in town yesterday and ended up ravenous and light-headed after like, 20 hours or something, so I ended up getting a bowl of beef chilli at a burrito place. Only when I started eating did I realise it had kidney beans. Oh, well, again, not a huge amount of carbs.
And my final infraction was, consciously and willingly, to drink a non-alchoholic beer in the bath. It shows how much my outlook has changed that I was horrified to read on the label: 20g carbohydrates, of which 13.6g sugars. 😰
Maybe it was psychosomatic, or the heat of the water, or maybe I really am sugar-sensitive now, but I felt super-buzzy after it and as if my teeth were throbbing. And I don't know if this is related, but the last couple of days I've had strong cravings for the pain au chocolate lying on the worktop, and the Tunnocks Caramel Logs that I know are in the cupboard. Resisting the urges so far.
I'm a couple of pounds under 14st now, and I reckon I'm past the early stage of losing lots of weight from water retention. Feels like the pace is slowing.
Clearing out a cupboard I found a load of old clothes that I never thought I'd fit into again … even some shirts that were a bit too snug when I bought them 10 years ago are now hanging nicely.
At this point I'm so used to making crazy good meals out of whatever scraps are lying around that I'm not really bothering to photograph them. This week's new trend has been digging out frozen fish (haddock, scallops) and turning them into delicious meals at short notice.
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