So what's up?

It's the time of year when I find it really difficult to stay on the straight and narrow. I love spring and Easter and quite often Easter falls around my birthday. I don't need much more of an excuse to go mad! Trouble is I can avoid buying things for home but the staffroom is packed with goodies. These for instance:

I could not resist chocolate eggs, Easter biscuits, hot cross buns, chocolate cake and so on. I went crazy, so much so that I am sure I o.d'd on sugar! I knew I should not be doing it but all my willpower went out of the window.  I forgot how relieved I was not to gain weight whilst I was away. I was on this spiral and hell bent on zooming head on into a truly chocolatey Easter! Thank goodness end of term arrived!

I tried to balance the haywire chocolate/sugar fest with SW meals and for the most part managed
apart from a Chinese takeaway on Friday. Even then I didn't overdo it, sticking to beef in black bean
with green peppers and the odd spare rib. Other people followed this with trifle but I resisted (angelic? No! Guilty!)

Sunday saw a birthday tea for Charlie who was celebrating his 89th. Avoided alcohol but could not steer clear of the 'beige party food' or indeed the home made cakes.  Still I kept
on with the SW meals around all of this. I even visited the farm shop in Biggin Hill and stocked up on  fresh veg as well as a couple of slices of the special bread pudding at 8 syns a slice. They are really
yummy but I do gave to say that I found the slice too hearty and will cut my 2nd one in half!!

So, weigh in last night! I truly was expecting a gain but the scales told me again that I had maintained. I don't know how many of my nine lives I have used up but I really didn't deserve that! I came home and had my 'favourite' after class dinner.

Having eaten that I filled myself with the resolve to have a much better week. I have looked through the new Fakeaway cook book and am inspired to try out new recipes. As I type a new bookshelf is being put up in the kitchen to house all my SW books. Let's see what this week brings!