The day was quite pleasant when we took Maggie for her first walk this morning.
Although there was a slight nip in the air, it didn’t warrant trussing ourselves up like stuffed turkeys, as we needed just our bodywarmers plus gloves for Hubby.
We were going to do our £10 dash today, but having started the day a little late and had some shopping to do, we’ve decided to do that on Wednesday now as I had a doctor’s appointment this afternoon (armed with a list) and I’m meeting N for coffee tomorrow morning in a cafe neither of us have been in before (Christmas treat to us for our excellent weight loss).
On the way out this morning though, we were approached by one of the Old School boat owners and offered a bag of goodies.
Oh joy! Speed food bliss to help towards any over indulgence tomorrow. I do so like to be able to plan my attack well in advance!
Flashback to memories of our apple tree and blackberrying in the hedgerows for crumbles and pies as inside was a generous carton of frozen blackberries and several rather large cooking apples.
It was now obvious what I was going to cook for dessert to go with our dinner today.
Actually, it was all good for us, as my spaghetti bolognese was made from scratch with fresh ingredients and 5% lean minced beef so no syns at all, and the dessert just notched up a few for the crumble topping of granola cereal and porridge oats. You can see from the side photo that dessert was mostly fruit!
Here are a couple of other things from the kitchen this week:
The doc was really pleased to see me looking so well, especially as it’s been months since I last saw her, way before I started with Slimming World actually as I was on two sticks.
She said losing the weight has taken years off me, and my official weight graph looks like I’ve fallen off a cliff. All good stuff at 17 kilos lighter than my June diabetes weigh in!
My knee playing up is probably due to arthritis reacting to my medication, and my morning headaches just a twinge as they go when I’m up and have had breakfast.
My BP is brilliant, and she is following up on my eye appointment at the hospital as I haven’t had confirmation of the one we tried to make on their new supa-doopa-ain’t-gonna-work computer system!
All in all, a damn good day I think!
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Thought of you today! Yesterday I went to a new German Bakery store looking for a Black Forest cake for today. They initially apologized as they were still establishing what sells/what doesn’t and had so far seen little demand for Black Forest then, as an afterthought… “We can make you one if you wish?” I agreed and later that evening we picked it up. This morning we sampled it………… and it was the best ever! We’re going to be trying more of their baking. This could be dangerous as they are only a 10 minute walk away!
Haha! So glad you enjoyed your gateau and methinks Ray might be getting loads of walks in that direction! Hubs and I haven’t had one of those for ages, especially as we don’t take naughty cakes down to MOH now. Who knows, maybe a sample will slip itself into my bag for him when I meet my friend tomorrow. 🙂
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This is great news! How wonderful to have lost so much weight and to be feeling so much better 🙂
I must admit I have not felt this good for years. 🙂
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