This is the 4th and final post for today - I promise!
Food log for today:
1 medium bread - 1pt
1.5tsp reduced fat butter - 0.5pt
12in wheat bread veggie delight (inc. sweet corn & light mayo) - 9pts
1 bottle of beer - 1.5pts
13g Neil's Yard sesame sticks - 1pt
2 1/2 small glasses of sparkling rose wine - 3pts
1 medium portion of pasta - 2pts
1 medium pork chop - 5pts
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil (for roast veggies) - 4pts
1 tbsp cheddar cheese - 1pt
Total: 28/23pts (+ 4 bonus pts - running & mowing lawn)
Hohoho - I may have gone a little overboard today. Never mind, I'm willing to claw the points back over the next couple of days. We got a little carried away with celebrating my boyfriend's perfect scores in his exams (hence the sparkling rose) but this is not an everyday occurrence so I'm not going to beat myself up over it. Saying that, I'm still so shocked at how much points olive oil is! I must invest in a can of Fry Light soon.
Anyway, more importantly, I wanted to tell you about my Non-Scale Victory (NSV). I went to Dorothy Perkins today to buy a more fitting pair of work trousers since my favourite one keeps falling down to my ankles. I know, sexy. I saw a perfect pair in a Short size 18 and I looked at them and thought "They look awfully big"(!) So, I grabbed a pair of Regular size 16 as a bit of a dare. I would have been the last person to think that they'd fit me but I stood in front of the mirror in the changing room gobsmacked, wearing a pair of size 16 - fully zipped and buttoned up - trousers. I think I stood there for 5 minutes looking really confused and then danced around for 5 minutes.
Regular trousers are always too long for my stumpy legs (even though my height is an average 5ft5in) so I burst out of the changing rooms to hunt down a pair of Short size 16's. I spent a good 5 minutes looking for a pair and found one - I nearly screamed with joy. I dashed to the till and realised I left my money with my boyfriend who was wandering around GAME. Eyes wide, panting, grabbing the magical pair of trousers I blurted out to the shop assistant "I-need-to-grab-my-money-from-my-boyfriend-who's-in-the-next-shop [breaths] I-honestly-won't-be-long-you-have-to-keep-this-pair-of-trousers-behind-the-till-for-me [breaths] it's-the-only-pair-that-fits-me. PLEASE" and I ran to GAME and grabbed my money and ran back to Dorothy Perkins and said "OK, ready!" The shop assistant giggled and handed me over the pair of trousers in exchange for my money.
So, it's official. I can wear a size 16 trousers from Dorothy Perkins. Something I've not been able to for a good 5 years. I will wear them tomorrow to work with a big label sticking out saying "Check it out: size 16, baby!"
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