Bad News Good news

First the bad news.

• Weight watchers was not called off due to the snow.
• I've gone back under 11st so I lose that extra point and am back to an allowance of 19 per day. That one point doesn't half make a difference you know!
• Our weight watchers leader Angie has given up taking our Monday meeting to spend more time at home.

And the good news?

• I lost 2.5lbs this week taking me back into the 10st bracket which does make me feel a lot happier (despite losing that extra point).
• I also feel so much healthier having spent a week NOT stuffing my face.
• The new weight watchers leader Carol seems quite nice, even if she is little nervous at the moment. She confessed to gaining 11lbs in 3 weeks over Christmas. That especially made me like her.

So, plans for this week are to get in some exercise ... hopefully some aerobics, weather permitting. I also need to eat more fruit and veg. I've not been getting anywhere near my 5 a day. Even though I have been eating low fat low calorie foods they have not necessarily been of the high nutrition good-for-you variety. I have made a start by making my own roast butternut squash, carrot and onion soup. Its the first time I have tried cooking soup from scratch and also the first time I have ever cooked squash. It's no points and I have got it in my flask for lunch today. I had a sneaky spoonful last night and I must say it's pretty darn good even if I do say so myself and very easy to do. It sort of made itself while I was cooking the tea. The vegetables roasted in the oven for 30 minutes along with my jacket spuds and then simmered in some stock with a couple of bay leaves for 20 minutes while I was eating the aforementioned jacket spud with a tuna steak, salad and grilled tomato. I gave it a quick blitz and ta-daa! I have got it in my flask for lunch today and I'm pretty sure I'll make it again.

Other new things I have tried this week are Aldi weetabix (which are v. tasty and just like the 'real' thing) and Aldi low fat breakfast selection fruit yogurts (2pts and not as good as a muller but perfectly acceptable as long as you like strawberry ... you cant get a multi pack without strawberry and they don't do any raspberry as far as i can tell). I also bought a new set of kitchen scales after mine packed up (also from Aldi as I seem to have taken to doing my grocery shopping there after a shiny new store opened near Sainsbury's ... the fruit and veg is really fresh ... I got my squash from there).

Gem x