Weigh in

Well, it's cheat day again. I got through Friday fairly unharmed. Actually, it was a very solid week, Im sticking to my diet well.

Yesterday was fairly tough, but it could have been tougher. A going away lunch for a work mate ended up being chicken ordered in, with salad (so much chicken this last week), only the guys meant to order chips and someone mentioned cake, but neither happened, so nothing too bad to avoid, just the big bread rolls. Night time saw a pre-school party, but again they had very little food there, so I had one sausage from a sausage sizzle (no bun, no sauce), then had ham and salad and beans when I got home a bit later. Easy. So it was clearly not a cheat day, which makes today my cheat day.

First thing this morning, hit the scales, 103 kgs. Wow!!! I lost 2 kgs in a week where I had 1.5 cheat days, plus extra beers last weekend. This diet is genuine. It's really right on 1 month since I started, plus 2 days or something, but I'll count that as 7 kgs in month, or 15.5 pounds. What was Ferris saying, 30 pounds? Perhaps if you had more to lose overall, and if you did absolutely every part of the book, including supplements, and more excercize, but I'm more than happy with half of that. In fact 103 kgs puts me at a very healthy size overall. It's not definition in the abs, but it's not looking messy, that's for sure.

The overwhelming message here isn't that this weight will stay off forever etc, it's that I have a way I can lose 7 kgs in a month now if I need to. That's just a brilliant tool to have, and makes me feel very secure about putting on weight in the future. Still got 2 hard months until Christmas, and I still want to keep going until then. I mean why not. My only fear is the weigh ins are going to be harder from here. I can't see going lower than 100 in the next few weeks, so that would mean slower improvement, but I have to learn to put it in perspective and understand not everything is about weight. But it's hard when the weight is obviously dropping off right now.

Today, cheating will include a trip to Maccas with the kids and home made pizza tonight. Cravings suggest these things, I'm happy to follow.

1 month on

The last few days have been solid diet days. Not the easiest time ever though. Monday I was craving some bad stuff. This is probably due to having 1.5 cheat days, plus too many drinks over the weekend. I felt tired Monday night, and it really would have been easy to snack out a bit, but I laboured through it. Tuesday is normally a non-drinking zone, but I convinced the wife into a bottle of white wine (I had 1.3 glasses), then continued to have 2 red wines. This was mostly due to a work promotion for me, so a little celebration, still no snacking. Felt a cold coming on then, and 2 days later that is in full effect. Yesterday was prettty solid, but meals this week have been poorly thought out, so I'm missing ingredients, had no planned dinner, no planned lunch today, nor a planned dinner tonight. A bit of extra work saw a steak dinner, and I also marinated chicken for todays lunch and tonights dinner, which should be fine.

Positives are easy to find here. My wife cheated herself last night with a big sized packet of chips, one of my favourites, but I declined. I also like that I didn't just join in the kids pasta dish when I had no easy options, nor did I break when I had no clear signs of lunch or dinner today. I'm very happy with all of this.

It's technically 1 month on today, I guess I should do the one month weigh in, probably do that tomorrow. I feel like I've made huge progress body wise, and I expect the scales won't be harsh even though I had 1.5 cheat days in the last week. I'm still undecided about cheat day this week, as Friday is a lunch at work, and probably cake, and at night is a preschool halloween party. I would like to minimise harm at both these things though, and still make Saturday the bad day. Perhaps I'll just have the barest of bad foods at these things, no cake/sweets etc and still make Saturday the bad day. I have to make that decision very soon.

Double cheat weekend

OK, weekend over, damage about as expected really. I'm probably not too far off my guilty weekend a couple of weeks ago, but the guilt isn't really there this time, kind of expected it this time around. I suppose in all fairness, guilt is the wrong feeling to have. Like I said previously, it took me a whole week to shake off that feeling, at any time I could have bottomed out and stopped the diet. Now I'm still on the diet, just had a bad couple of things, should be able just to move on from that.

OK, so Friday was my birthday, and early cheat day. Sausage, eggs, toast brekky, apple in the morning, massively sweet cake mid morning, chicken and chips for lunch, chinese meal out with wine, snacked on some crackers later that night with a couple of beers and bourbons. Nothing outrageous, but solid bad eating day.

Onto my non-cheat Saturday. It was a warm day, and we were having our first sort of "party" on Sunday, so heaps of house work, especially outside in warm weather. About half way through I signed a contract with myself to drink the last 2 beers still in the fridge from the night before. I had a green tea at this point, and enjoyed late afternoon watching kids running under sprinklers with the tea, not a bad thing. But as we came up to dinner, I did have the beer anyway, well deserved I thought. I had a glass of wine with dinner, and so far had only cheated on the single beer and was full from dinner. My wife had been baking a fancy cake, and there was bad stuff everywhere, but I was unmoved...until... I was washing up while she was putting kids to bed, and there was a excess chocolate icing in a bowl and I had a taste. It was so damn nice and was getting thrown out otherwise, so I had several more tastes. I call this cheating, because that was literally a chocolate bar by the time I said no more :) I stopped at that and had 2 more smaller red wines while watching a movie with the wife. I don't know, a beer and some chocolate. Not an outstanding failure, but not a perfect diet day for a week where I'm having 2 cheat days of sorts.

Sunday was already planned to be a bad lunch for diets, and it didn't disappoint. Good breakfast, tea mid morning, then 2 beers, chicken and salad (not really bad, but chicken is crumbed), cake and then I stopped... for a while. Had a really nice relaxing afternoon, perfect Sydney weather. I was having a great afternoon and decided to finish off the two premium beers left in the fridge after the lunch, and did so. Had the chicken and salad again for dinner, which again isn't really a cheat, it's just not 100% aligned with the diet. My cheat Sunday was drinking too much. I followed dinner with a couple of red wines, and 2.5 bourbons with water (poured 3, threw out half of one). This drinking is over a period of probably 7 hours mind you, so while I was "drunk", I was still in control and don't have a hangover today. I don't know, perfect Sydney weather, good atmosphere, just felt like a day to relax and enjoy.

So certainly not 100% to plan, but minimal damage overall I think. Today is back on the diet, and later in the week I have to make up my mind as to whether Friday is a cheat day or not, as there are two potentially diet unfriendly events on Friday, and nothing planned for Saturday as yet.

Weigh in before cheat day 4.

Weigh in this morning was I guess you'd say disappointing, still at 105. It might have been half a kg drop, as the scales aren't very accurate, and that needle is almost at 104 and I definitely feel a little lighter overall. Perhaps it means the weight stabilised but I still lost some size? It's a slightly early cheat day which will probably explain it too. I guess my fear would be seeing 106 next weekend, as I'll be cheating today, then having a cheat meal/afternoon on Sunday, which really messes up a good diet week. It will be an interesting experience I guess, as seeing 104 on that day would be a surprise. I'll aim to be as good as I can outside those cheat days, the weight will look after itself.

I want to get to two different drinks. One is green tea. Tim says to get plenty of this in your system, so I swapped out coffee for green tea, and I like it. Firstly, it has enough taste that you don't need milk and sugar to make it "right" (I'm talking cheap tea vs cheap coffee BTW). But I did a little more reading yesterday and it is successfully used as a weight loss tool on it's own. There are claims out there that people have finally lost weight after trying different things, just by swapping green tea into their diet. Studies also showed dangerous side effects at higher doses, but nothing under 10 cups a day would be considered dangerous (not that I could stomach that much, nor would the caffeine be good). I'm having 3-4 cups a day anyway, and I see it as an important part of the overall diet idea.

Other drinks are alcohol. It's cheat day (and birthday) today, so it was obvious to get out a few of my once a week beers. I bought these beers quite a while ago now, but admittedly I bought 2 cartons (30 can cartons) at the time. I was drinking pretty heavy before this last month, and found myself going through about 2/3rd of these things a week, so 20 cans. 4 on Thursday/Friday each, 5 or 6 on Saturday/Sunday each, with the occasional other day like Tuesday/Wednesday in the mix too. Making that far far worse, was I'd usually have 1/3 a bottle of wine those nights, and also a bourbon or two chaser after the beers dried up. I guess the news is I made the decision to folow the diet 25 days ago, and that included one day a week beers, and I remember the carton was already half empty, so around 13-15 beers left. So in 25 days I might have gone through 70 beers, but instead I'm on around 10 (will be 13/14 by tonight). Bourbon is similar, going through probably averaging 1.5 bottles every two weeks. A bourbon bottle I opened before the diet is still almost 1/2 full. So that's like 2.5 bottles of bourbon down to 0.6 on this diet. Wine hasn't changed much, and has probably actually gone up given I have one night where I allow 4 glasses, and have 2 glasses 4 nights a week. But I'm still extremely happy with my progress here, especially on our budget. To add this up, 25 days of alcohol used to cost me $93 worth of beer, $70 worth of bourbon plus wine, has now cost me $17 worth of beer and $16 worth of bourbon. Not to mention, I'm buying cheaper red wines for myself, than white wines for the wife and me, so even wine budget has gone down a lot. That's $130 saving in less than a month, and no doubt even more important for my body and mind.

Well, it's a weird weekend ahead, with no cheat day, non cheat day Saturday and then cheat meal Sunday. I feel this will be challenging for some reason, so I'm going to work hard and make sure my next blog says I didn't cheat any more than planned, and that I'm on the way to having a solid diet week.

Birthday to interupt

Dieting so far this week has been very solid. I'd question last nights meal. I was baking my wife crumbed fish, and decided to throw 3 chicken nuggets in there, and had them with a little BBQ sauce. Nothing too bad I don't think, but I know Ferriss doesn't like crumbed food, and definitely not a little sauce. Still, I've been working hard to keep straight, it definitely gets easier when you aren't cheating yourself. It's like momentum building, and once you cheat, that momentum slows down a bit, cheat again it stops, and then it's really hard to get going again. After having a couple of extra drinks, and a couple of snacks two weekends ago, it got really hard for at least a week. But the momentum is back now and it feels easy.

Definitely getting down to new lows again this week. I definitely bounced up in weight again on cheat day, and could feel it. But then by about Wednesday it seems like it's gone again, and the last few days of the week get you feeling better and better. Actually see a little definition higher up on the stomach now, with still plenty of fat covering the lower part of the stomach. I assume that will be the last to go.

This weekend is turning out to be a nightmare. Friday is my birthday, and I'm possibly do something with work friends at lunch, then definitely having a dinner out with wife and kids that night. So that's fine, that is my cheat day obviously. However, I'm also having a birthdy lunch on Sunday that will involve nice food, drinks and probably some sweets/cake. So it goes cheat day, normal cheat day which now has to be diet day, then normal diet day with cheat in the middle? I guess I have to do that. I can probably avoid Sunday being too bad, and just have to use some discipline to make sure I don't do anything bad that afternoon and night.

I guess that's the plan then. So I'll weigh myself tomorrow morning, then it's off for a good old cheat day.

Week 3 done

And so ends a pretty great diet week. Held on for the last two days, exactly as planned. Then onto cheat day. It really does turn things upside down, even if it doesn't seem that crazy bad. Feel any bit hungry, have a snack. Want some beers, it's OK today. Had some chicken and chips for lunch, which was amazingly good, and some Thai take away for dinner, which was solid as usual, and a couple of slices of left over home made pizza that the kids didn't eat the night before, just to cap it all off. I will say this about diet day though. I spent a decent chunk of it at home (was out all morning, home all afternoon), and snacked/ate when I wanted. Similarily, I spent a large chunk at home Sunday, and also felt like snacking. It only takes one daying of doing like you please to convince your body it's OK to do what you please. I kept going with well timed green teas, which did the job of distracting me, but it was much harder the day after cheat day funnily enough, when you think you'd be over anything bad. But I kept my head and had a good diet day, even restricted myself to the two red wines Sunday night, so very pleased with that.

I have more stuff to fill in here. A bit about guilt, a bit about snacks, a bit about diet slips, but I just can't compose myself right now. I could just blabber some stuff out there, but without at least some clues about the answers, or even all the questions, I won't bother putting it out there. I'll think a little more about it and get out of there.

Onto normal diet news. Got through the weekend fine as mentioned, and did my weekly weigh in before cheat day, and did manage to just weigh myself that one time over the last week. 105kgs, which is lower than previous weeks. While it's not a record low by any means, I feel that's about my stupid eating weight aleready dropped off. I guess I'm saying at some point I'm expecting slow gains, and I always drop weight quickly at start and then hit a wall. That wall (on most diets) is probably pretty close right now, which is why it's really important to not focus on the scales too much. I can handle not losing weight 1 week, but checking 7-9 times a week will just make that all the more depressing.

As for this week, I feel I did really well last week, so don't know any other goals to set for this week other than keep it up. No guilt is the obvious side of any decisions I make. Perhaps I have to work something out around the weekend, as I have a birthday Friday, which almost certainly means a couple of nice things, perhaps not on normal cheat day. I'll work that out soon.

Guilty, not guilty

Blogging again with pretty much the same story to tell as yesterday. I'm consciously aware of the guilt factor now, and that is a driver in itself. I'm not sure how long that might last, but when I'm thinking of further drinks or food at night time, I think about the guilt I'll wear the rest of the night, plus the next day when I have to report failure.

It's actually not the first guilt killer I've done this last year. I've had more than one little guilt vice. First and foremost is probably my relationship with my wife. Don't get me wrong, it's a strong, communicative relationship, but it's not always as committing as it could be. For example, just to go to bed at the same time, when I am doing nothing at all interesting, is avoided for no good reason. But I'm slowly overcoming that. I felt like I had a need to have a few minutes of alone time, but you soon realise once you've built that into your life, it squashes out other things, like relationships with people. And not just wife, but family and friends too. Lifes far less interesting in your own cave. I mean at my worst, in my own cave, drinking vritually by myself after the wife is down. No great reason for this, it seems rediculous.

Drinking is certainly another guilt factor. I would be happy with 4 drinks at home, then it became 6, then 8. Even after 2 you are feeling a little tipsy, anything beyond that is really just drinking for drinking sake. Not that I won't enjoy doing that still on the weekend, maybe 4 drinks Friday, 6 on a Saturday. It's still fun to get to that next level of drunk, just not all the time.

Work was definitely one. When I'm not interested in what I'm doing, I avoid the work (which I can do really well :)), then feel guilty at work for not doing what I should be, then guilty at home for not working hard for the prior 8 hours. I find if I get home having worked a solid 8 hours, regardless of what I'm doing, I feel 100% better about myself. I've been doing that a lot more this last 6-12 months. Work loves me, I love me more importantly.

One unresolved guilt is my lack of keeping up with friends. Since I've built a lot of me time into my life, and family and work take up the rest, I find myself keeping my schedules vague to friends looking to catch up. This has drive some away, and made catchups with others far less frequent. Again this is not healthy and causes guilt.

The point is I'm feeling so much better in the morning the last two days. Not because I didn't overdrink last night, but because I had a couple of drinks, then said no more. It's pride in trying to turn a corner towards a healthier outlook. And with that pride comes a great removal of guilt.

So basically I want to set this as a life stance. When decisions are to be made, which ones cause more guilt? This is most likely the wrong decision, go with the other. I just want to see if this is alwyas possible, and what sense comes of that. I'll obviously not do anything stupid, but I do want to see if this guilt thing is a good measure of how to live your life.

A day in the diet

I'll admit the human brain is not a clever beast, or perhaps too clever, but certainly not easy to train either way. I always laughed at people who struggle to lose weight, but I understand very clearly now. Take last night for example. I've had 3 meals for the day, big enough to keep a hungry family going for a week. I want to diet properly and not fall into bad habits, yet I have a hunger to have something bad. It's not a hunger based on any real need for food, it's a "fill this void" hunger. For me it can be alcohol, snack food, anything really. Actually you can fill a void by hanging with your family, excercize, reading, internet, games, TV, work, etc. But sometimes you feel a specific hole filling need. No work or excercize is fitting this hole, just some cheese and crackers, or another drink.

Last night I allowed myself 2 red wines, and I'm flowing through them quite nicely. Even before the 2nd has finished, that specific hole is looming "I'd like a 3rd drink." One of the problems is I'm not even that worried about how a 3rd or 4th drink will affect my health, and possibly not even my diet. So there seems little reason not to when I'm enjoying the end of that 2nd drink. The only reason really standing in the way is I want control over this. To feel better about myself tomorrow, I need control over these little things. In fact, by the time I've poured that 3rd drink, my guilt has already soured the drink, and guilt lingers all night long as I get tipsier. Tomorrow morning I feel bad about not having the control. It's safe to say the negatives outweigh the positives. And it's even very questionable what positives exist anyway, in the cold light of day.

I had a good diet day yesterday, and had my 2 drinks after the kids were down. I was working on my computer, and had a little frustration in something I was trying to do. That 2nd drink is near finished, my work is shitting me anyway, wouldn't it be nice to kick back to some music/TV/game with a couple more glasses. I don't know exactly what happened, but I didn't do that. Instead I drank a decent swig of water, and went back to work. I'll admit to mixed feelings after doing this for at least 30 minutes, then I had a good run of work, I managed to put those feelings aside and get through to bed time without issues. I made it! Perfect diet day again, exactly as planned. I felt great going to bed. No guilt. I feel great waking up this morning, looking back and saying I did good. It will be interesting to be looking back a week from now and see if I can be guilt free about an entire week, or if the rails fall off again around weekend. Saturday is cheat day anyway, so that helps a lot, but Friday night and Sunday night especially are difficult days for me around alcohol.

To top off that good feeling today, I hit notch 2 on my old belt today. To go back, I tried using this belt a few weeks ago and couldn't easily reach notch 1. After a week of the diet, I needed a belt more than ever for my now slightly loose jeans, and found I could now reach notch 1. Today I was feeling a little slimmer, and what do you know, notch 2 is comfortable. But the more I do this, the more I see real goals. I want to see a bit more definition around the gut. I'm technically not far off being considered slim, but now I want to see some sugar for all this. That nice bulge at the bottom of the gut has to go. I have no problem taking my shirt off at beaches, but it would be nice to take it off and actually look good too. Have some self pride. I don't think this will come too soon, so it's a longer goal, but would be an amazing one to hit.

Good start to week 3

First two days of this week and happy to say right back on schedule. No snacks, no drinks the first two days, and very solid eating for that two days. I've also put away the scales for now. Again, no point to it. Whether I lose weight or not, I am on the diet now. I know it's great to see kgs fall off, but I don't want to be tied to that.

But I'm just glad to get through with no cheating so far. Of course, I was saying "don't cheat" to my 6yo son, and he asked what that meant. My wife said "it means do the right thing", but I corrected her and said it means "don't break the rules." Think about it. Boxing is a sport with rules. To do the right thing would probably mean don't punch that guy at all. But to obey the rules, you can punch the guy, but you can't kick him. I think schools have about the easiest example of black and white cheating. You sit an exam, you don't get outside help from anyone during the exam. Very simple. Yet the right thing would always be to seek help if you didn't know the answer, rather than try to do something you don't understand yourself.

But diet cheating is trickiest, especially slow carb diet. It allows some things that might be considered bad on other diets, because of their fat content, yet they are allowed in SCD? ie eggs and meat. Meat has plenty of fat, but can you eat a sausage which has more fat? It's not recommended you have the high fat foods, but not completely locked out either. It becomes sort of self regulated, as in I'll do my SCD different to the next person. So I may be cheating with a couple of my choices by someones regulation, whereas they might be cheating by my regulations.

I think this does make it tougher, becuase when a craving kicks into overdrive, your mind can overrule a normal regulation, which technically is not really cheating if you allowed the overrule. ie, I might say I'll do 6 good days and 1 bad, but even on the good days, I'll occasionally have a little something nice. This could be within the boundaries of your diet, therefore you aren't cheating. And I would say you'd still lose weight being 95% good and 5% bad.

For now however, I want to keep pretty close to a strict SCD. The exceptions I'll allow are a couple of extra Friday night drinks, perhaps even a small snack on those nights. However, with a Sun-Thu of solid diet, Friday solid with a couple of extra drinks, and Saturday complete cheat day, I think I'm in pretty good shape overall. I'm not yet fully looking forward to cheat day, really just trying to keep a low profile for the week, and I'll probably get more excited about it by Friday.

I should think of one thing I'd like cheat day, to get myself working towards that. I guess CCs + salsa would be one nice thing I'd like to allow myself.

Rough weekend

Not the best ever weekend, but not a train wreck either.

Cheat day ended up being Thursday night rather than Saturday, and until 5pm Saturday, this was not a problem. At that point I'd been working all day in the yard, and the wife suggested a BBQ. My thoughts were, I'd love a beer with that, and really, why not? So I had my steak, sausages and salad, which is mostly fine, and I had my beer while cooking, intending on another later. I ended up having 3 wines, 2 beers and a bourbon (over about 6 hours), and a little loose I allowed myself a biscuit, and a few crackers later on. Semi-cheat day?

Sunday actually went mostly the same. Ate good all day, got to night time and had 4 glasses of wine, a biscuit and a few crackers.

It was tough this weekend, because we wroked very hard all weekend, and I even broke a finger on Sunday trying to hammer some things. But I can't say I did really all that badly. So I had a couple too many drinks each night, and so I snuck in a couple of crackers. I'm back to being good now, and won't drink or snack the next few days at all. Later in the week I'll allow myself the 2 glasses of red wine, but I have to stop there unless it's cheat day.

Cheat day 2?

Well a curve ball was thrown. 2/3rds of my way through a normal work day, the mrs rings up and announces we should go out for dinner. The dinner of choice was going to be very bad for my diet, and even if I had something good for my diet, I'd die thinking I'd missed an opportunity to have some bad stuff. So 2/3rds of the way through a healthy diet day, the day turned into cheat day. I had little time to turn it into a crazy day, but snuck in a medium sized packet of chips on the way home, love this. An hour later we were eating at our favourite Chinese (magnificent food) with a bottle of wine between us. The food was magical as usual, and I felt good about getting my cheat day in early, even though I'd only cheated the last 1/3rd of it. I finished off having a little ice cream, some crackers at night and a couple of beers. This is actually my let loose day for food and drink, so pretty unimpressive returns on the drinking, but the body won't complain about that of course.

The hardest bit now will be dieting for 8 days rather than 6 between cheat days. Also might have a slightly tough day as my work has a family day, where lots of good food and drink can be had around lunch time which I'll have to try to ignore.

Anyway, pretty happy about the cheat day as a whole, and glad we did what we did. Will be a quieter weekend for sure because of this, but there is enough coming up to keep me busy anyhow.

Back to lowest weight

Happy to report I'm back to last Saturdays weight before cheat day. That is I've lost around 3kgs since starting this diet, just for the 2nd time now. I guess with 2 days left until cheat day this is a sign that things may be moving forward, and I might go down another little bit before bouncing back up after cheat day. So far no real feeling about the upcoming cheat day. It's been hectic around home with visitors, so that's not surprising, but I feel if the diet is to work, I need to be excited about cheat day and plan some bad stuff each time. Perhaps I'll put that as a test, to have a few cheat day foods on this blog before Saturday.

I also have to learn to become less obsessed about the weight itself. It should be perfectly fine to not lose weight for one or two weeks on any diet, but if you are weighing yourself every day, that's a tough two weeks. I'll also test myself to not do weigh ins until Saturday mornings. This will make it easier to get through a poor results week, rather than being upset every day of that week.

On a negative note, I slipped in a couple of extra glasses of wine 2 of the last 3 nights. I thought I'd be quite happy limiting myself to 2 glasses, but apparently not. And once that 3rd is in you, the 4th is almost automatic. This also tests the cravings, as they get stronger once your defences are down. So far so good on holding off bad food though. Need to work hard at avoiding the 3rd drink on anything but cheat night, will report back on this.

Week 2 blues and beyond

Half way through week 2 now. I must admit to feeling a little low on the whole experience after cheat day. I got back onto the diet without issues, but after 2 days, I was still around my starting weight, after being 3kgs lighter just 2 days earlier. I did stick with it however, and now a couple of days further on, the weight is falling again. I can only imagine this is going to be a roller coaster diet, weight gradually going down by Saturday each week, then spiking up again after a bad days eating.

The initial thought is why do cheat day then? I'm only going to add weight on those days, why not lose all week, then continue to lose. But for now I'd like to trust in the diet. It may feel bad to see that weight go back on, but it's outweighed by having a diet free day coming up every week, and knowing that it is supposed to help the long term diet.

Anyway, now that I've seen the weight drop again, and noticed an improvement in the mirror, it's enough to inspire me through to Saturday again, and I'm also excersizing well this week.

It's about 12 weeks through to Christmas now, and I'd really like to get through to that date dieting/excersizing/drinking properly. I can only imagine this would have me very close to my goal weight of sub 100kgs, something I'm looking forward to.

Post cheat day 1

Cheat day ended up very nice. I didn't once go out of my way to eat bad, but also never went out of my way not to.

My Cheating

* My normal high protein breakfast had an extra meat + BBQ sauce.
* Had a taste of kids crackers, but decided they weren't that nice.
* An apple
* Lunch was a perfectly diet friendly vegetable soup, with toast (non-friendly)

Here things got worse as I went out with the wife

* Coffee out with 2/3rds of a muffin
* 3 beers at pub
* Veal Parmigiana with plenty of salad/vegetables with 2 glasses of white wine
* 2 bourbon and cokes at pub

Got home and enjoyed a beer watching Die Hard on TV, before snoozing off.

Hangover

Felt OK this morning, but the hangover came in terms of weigh in. I didn't expect to put most of the weight on, but I have. I'm back to 109kgs. I still have definitely lost a little size around my waist though, so I think the weight fluctuation doesn't tell the whole story. I had little problem back on the diet, however I did feel a little light headed this afternoon. Felt better after dinner.

I have also bought some dry beans to cook myself, we'll see how that goes. Also working out a menu for the week to keep the diet going along.