So many kind words of encouragement ..... Thank You and BIG ((((HUGS)))) to every one
Alicia, exercise is the key. It ups your metabolism which means that you burn more calories doing your day to day stuff than you would have without the exercise.
M2M, I love having you drop by as well! And I love your new avatar. You are really pretty, and it is so nice to know who I am talking too.
Bronsk, did you go!!

I hope you have had a great day too, and have steered clear from too much naughtiness (of the eating variety, of course .... you can be as naughty as you like in every other respect

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Pineola, Val and Hypo, thanks for the encouragement .... always welcome
Crunchie, I do feel like I am getting new habits, and it is really exciting. This is the first diet that I have done where I haven't been waiting for the weekend so I could have my Saturday night binge that I have always allowed myself in the past. And Eirinn sounds hilarious. They don't seem to realise that they are not super lizards!! Buster will try to jump off things ......oh and he runs into tables occasionally and you can hear him whack his nose!! What's that all about
Okay, day in the office today and no bike ride (too hot again!!), so not much exercise today, but I was on my feet all day at work.
Foodwise, I had porridge for breakfast, salmon and rice for lunch, and the rest of the day was snacks. I had two sugar free snack bars, peaches, raspberries, banana crisps, apple crisps and 1 mini babybel. Total cals is just under 1800. Not bad for a day, especially when I have had salmon, which always bumps it up quite a bit.
I have also been trying on trousers this morning, as I measured my waist and it was 31 inches, officially a size 16!! (shame about the thighs and bum

) My old work trouser fit comfortably again, as do some size 16 shorts I bought a few summers ago (I'm wearing a pair now). So I'm feeling really good, but I just hope that this all shows on the scales tomorrow. I feel quite optomistic, but at the back of my mind I still worry that I might not have lost. We shall have to 'weight' and see (sorry ... is that joke getting REALLY old now

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Toodles peeps
