More downs than ups!

Wednesday was a reasonable day. Fruit and yoghurt for breakfast - well it was weigh in day! The brighter weather makes everything seem less onerous so eating doesn't appear to be too much of a problem. Again I was busy so lunch was late. Strangely again I fancied a sandwich, which isn't like me! I opted for a toasted turkey and salad sandwich and again the thought was better than the reality!

I did follow it with yoghurt and satsumas. The yoghurt was 0.5 syn.

I didn't eat anything else as weigh in was looming! I was so pleased to have lost a pound! Wish I could do that every week. I spent time thinking about how I had managed that but my success was clouded with the fact that the next day was my birthday and then it was Easter weekend with all that brings! When I got home I was too tired to think about cooking. Natasha told me she was going

home to fried eggs and I could not get that out of my mind so that's what I had!

Had to count the bread as syns (5) and followed up with berries for my super free. Not too bad a day!

Wish I could say that about Thursday! Well it was my birthday. Anyway, I started with porridge and berries to try to give myself a good base. That was all that was good about the day I think! I won't go into everything I ate, but whenever I hesitated, someone would say: 'go on. It is your birthday'. I don't even dare count flexible syns. We went out for dinner and I even had half a bottle of wine (not like me at all). Maybe reaching my official state retirement age had something to do with my kamikaze attitude! Anyway enough said! The scales next week will reveal all.

Friday was not too much better as once I am off the rails it is hard to get back on them. I made fleeting attempts to stick to a SW plan and did ensure I ate fruit but it was a struggle. My friend came 

round and we had a hot cross bun with our tea - well it was Good Friday! I made fish pie for dinner. 

Not a SW recipe but not far off. I made sure I had a pile of green beans too!

Somewhere along the line I picked up a cold so I spent most  of Saturday feeling awful. I was so cold all day and really didn't fancy anything. I don't know if that is worse than wanting to eat everything! 

In the evening I made SW chips with sausages (2syns) and had tomatoes as my super free. That's what I mean about attempts to stick to SW.

Well to Sunday. I had 7 people coming for  lunch so made chicken. Most people like that! One sure fire dish for a larger number of people is SW Mexican bean bake. It is so simple to make and almost everyone likes it. As an accompaniment it fills people up! If any vegetarians are eating then it solves the problem of a main dish for them. I am afraid I didn't make SW roast potatoes, but I am not sure why! The one good thing was that having cooked all the food I didn't really eat that much.  There was one big danger though - desert! My friend made the most wonderful bread and butter pudding full of cream and rum. It smelt glorious and so I just had to have some. Well, it was Easter Sunday!

So, Easter is just about over. Holidays are just about over. There's plenty of cold chicken left for tomorrow. I sent the remainder of the pudding home with my friend! Monday has got to be be a better day - back on track I hope. See you soon!