Thanks Laura... it was three meals, if you include the choc shake as brekky. And there was a skinny latte in there too, I forgot. I think the cals would be well up at 1200 is you included the choc bar, the bean wrap & the rye bread & peanut butter... and it did feel fine. A bit out of kilter, as such a long day, but that's fine. Scales today say 11 5, which is the lowest they have been since Xmas anyway, so that takes away the fear a little. And last night once home I thought I'd have a shake and chose instead to eat the rye bread... so maybe that is progress.
Work-wise, it actually gets crazier form here on in... my work varies from quiet, stay-at-home, stressful due to missed deadlines, to away-from-home, on the go, long days, stressful but in a different way... from sat I will be away for a week in china, working, then more time away to follow but in the UK... in a way, though often frantic, the away-times are less likely to see me binge, although the temptation of business meals & how to negotiate them is always a factor.
Anyway, am glad to have a change of pace now and a break from the banging-my-head against the keyboard phase of work!
Have read Eating less but think I passed it on to a minis friend last year? Stupid... should have known that's not a book you can read and let go of, not when you are me. I will check out the reading again. Also going to look at low-GI books Bess has been using, as I am not great at the cal counting thing in spite of PDT, am just a number-phobe alas. I would like to be more relaxed about food, in the middle, rather than swinging from ultra-uptight to eat-all-you-can-see.
Thanks for your thoughts, Laura, and Bess, Dis, & everyone else too... I am doing the best I can to take them on board, after a long period of plodding along with hands over my ears.
xxx
Determined though, absolutely! 
