Time To Get Plastered.

Plastered indeed! not in an alcoholical sense but in the plastering of a wall sense. Vin is replacing the plaster on the window wall of the middle room, aiming to cover the areas that were damp. He has finished all the damp proof coursing, and is now working on the affected wall. What a good job he has done, I'm very proud of him.
We bought a new lamp for the mantlepiece which is a lovely cream colour and matches the wall colour beautifully.Vin spotted it yesterday in the Focus sale, at 1/2 price so is only £15, a bargain and perfect for the room.
Did our Weekend shopping in Tesco's today, mainly for speed because he wanted a few things from Focus. Must admit their system of putting calorie counts on all their food is brilliant, you can see at a glance which is the best food for you. Excellent.
We are still going down, about 11lbs in total in 5 weeks so is looking good. Vin's shirts are definitely looking better on him and my clothes are fitting me better too. We are having a bit of a treat tonight...Chips!! yes Chips..I bought these chunky chips in a box from Tesco and they are 250 calories for 1/2 a box so can be used with something not calorie high. We are having :
A fishless fish cake,
Chips, 1/2 a box,
Fresh peas and sweetcorn instead of mushy peas which are quite high.
Probably some baked tomato also.
Things we have found...Portion Control, watch the carbs especially rice, pasta and potatoes. You can have them but less of them.
Watch the cakes/biscuits, again you can still have them but calorie count them in, a small Mr Kipling cake is around 120 calories is fine. Imagine the calorie count of a big slice of home-made cake, nice as they are.
Aim for variety..I have tried to have something different each night so you don't get bored.
Diet plans don't seem to work for us, you need to have the sort of things you are used to, but tweak them about so there are less calories.
Cheese is a biggy for us..we had quite a lot of cheese especially at the weekend, so we are using spready ones, or the small individual cheeses which are better.
Try and make it less of a "Diet" more of a healthy eating plan. Vin said today that he has not felt that he was on a diet, I was pleased about that because that was what I wanted, we have had full plates of tasty foods,but without the extras. Forexample,last night we had a lovely spinach and ricotta canneloni which we would have had with the garlic bread. Lose that and you immediately save loads of calories. Small changes!!
We have mainly lost an average of about 2lbs each week which is a really good healthy balanced loss I think. By the time we go away in October, we should be quite a bit down I hope.