Thanks for your welcome Trucker. I really do appreciate it. I was thinking that it would be good to have a starting weight as you said. I will try to weigh myself at my shopping centre tomorrow.
Congratulations on your own wonderful success story too. It really is amazing and inspiring to know that you have turned things around to such an extent.
Today worked out ok for me. I forgot to take my fruit to work. I needed to change my evening meal in a hurry, and ended up making something I've often made and then realized half way through that it has too much
fat in the sauce. I got a bit hungry and was eating the bits of my dinner that were ready before I had a proper meal. Then I ate some almonds while I was waiting and in the end I felt overfull by the time I ate the meal. Something is wrong with my sinuses and I feel as though I'm not really on the ball!
On the plus side. I really noticed the support joining the forum had given me, even though I was away from it. There were pieces of tempting looking birthday food in a couple of places at work, and I was feeling tired and off, and had forgotten to bring my peach, but when I remembered that I had started my posts here and my diary and had other people respond to me, I felt a definite boost - like I was straighter and stronger. Tomorrow is not the day I'm changing - I started yesterday. I didn't manage everything I wanted for today, but I feel that I was headed in the right direction the whole time. This afternoon I rushed out of the house again after work without a drink or snack and felt some pretty strong tugs towards my danger foods, but managed a healthy snack instead. I also ended up very tired just before I needed to get dinner. I thought I'd had enough sleep so I think it was due to a combination of sinus and change of
diet. A couple of days ago, that would have been enough to set me off looking for some quick food related gratification. Instead I thought, no I belong to this forum now and I will just lie down for a little while.
I'm ready for bed now and I'm not craving anything. I probably won't be going to work tomorrow, so I'll spend a bit of time on a to do list to make my plan easier to achieve.
