4th June 2007 – Day 12 – Week 2

Well, that’s another weekend over and this was quite a hard one for me, as the weather was beautiful and it was BBQ time (my first one since being on Lighter Life and quite a large BBQ at that as Allan had his family down for the weekend). Unfortunately, I absolutely love BBQ’s, so I did find it quite difficult, but I thought of myself being slim and dug deep to strengthen my will power and again had my sparkling water in a wine glass, while they were having their lamb kebabs and then had my soup while they were tucking into their steak & salad. When they had strawberries & cream for pudding, I had my fruit bar and I felt really proud of myself for sticking to it.

On Sunday afternoon, when the family had left, we’d been invited to a neighbour’s birthday party, which had loads of buffet food laid on. Normally, I would have gone up a couple of times and not necessarily fill my plate, as I always felt self-conscious that people would look at my size and then at how much I’d put on my plate, but I would have gone up at least a couple of times. This time though, I stuck to just my sparkling water and had my soup when I got home and just enjoyed chatting in the garden with everyone in the sunshine.

So, all in all, quite a hard week food wise, but I got through it OK and felt proud of myself. I just wish I’d found this diet earlier – if I’d found it at the beginning of last year, I would hopefully have been slim for my friends wedding where I was her bridesmaid, or if I’d found it at the beginning of this year, I may have been able to have a little of the BBQ. Oh well, I just have to stick to what I’m doing now and think, I WILL be slim.

My friend and I have decided to go walking or aqua aerobics tonight, depending on the weather, which I’m really looking forward to. I have to start upping my steps as we were given a pedometer in our class last week and I’ve only managed to reach the 10,000 step goal on Saturday, I must improve on this.