) I wasn't big into chocolate until I moved in with my bf - he always had it around and would pick me up one whenever he had it (of course I let him ) Easter was tough!!!! Glad it's over - won't be that much chocolate in the shops now until Christmas! I find it easier to lose weight in the summer - do you???
Hey Minerva - day one of Paleo has gone well, lots of fats yum yum I love lard/dripping
Going to try a S&S day tomorrow, if I'm minimising the carbs then I should be able to dip in and out of S&S without too much bother - I'm thinking of a holy trinity of diets
JUDDD - Up days Paleo - Down days S&S - would I lose 3x the weight though
My failure on JUDDD was eating junk on up days, so by having a paleo up day you're having the cals but not the junk. And I just have lots of S&S packs to use up and not much money to buy food, which is where the down days come in!! We'll see - I make all these plans and they come to nothing
good for you getting straight back on it,
I'm sure I'd end up doing that after a while! ... just can't imagine that right now as SnS puts you in the VLCD frame of mind where you've forgotten what most things taste like and the muted hunger really drowns any of those voices out... I'll keep telling myself that. Oh Minerva you're so right about sugar - it's the devil's seasoning!!!! It's like crack cocaine (I imagine
How's the studying going? xxx
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I need to learn that life isn't ALL black or white, that grey areas can exist in-between, so long as the majority is done with maximum effort! And the fact that on two of the off-meals I had whatever I wanted and controlled my intake to be within reasonable proportions without taking it as an excuse to pig out shows me that ... maybe I can do this in the future? To give my body a break ... in Russian or Latvian we'd call it "profilaktika" i.e. a period of respite/rest.
Hey Minerva!
My apologies for not being around. A h-ell of a lot of cr*p going on here, the main one being my little man has Rotavirus, and I have been worried sick! He's not eating still, I am trying to get calories down him in any way I can (adding double cream to his milk), as he's losing weight! He's only a tiny thing, so I was so upset when I found out not only had he got this awful virus, but has lost weight too! Then, I caught it! VERY unusual for an adult to get it, just my luck!
A lot going on, on top of all that, so I am jumping on here to catch up with you guys whilst I can!
I tell ya what. Stress and a nasty virus = weight loss! I've lost more this week than I would've done on Sns!! Not that I would advise it though!
Hoping you're well lovely, be good to hear your news
I keep check on you through your diary - I'm so glad your mum and OH are helping out. Look after yourself Nat, you're ill too. Let the others take over a little bit more, you need to get better for yourself and for your little one. I really hope you can let yourself calm down a little bit, stress won't help you recover... 
The more you worry, the more of an issue it will become! It's really not so scary - if anything, on my days off I've always had my SnS porridge for breakfast and SnS soup for lunch to get me in the right frame of mind for the evening. But you are right, life will always throw occasions at us when we exceed slightly - but we balance out by having less around that day It's quite sad really, but it spurs me on!
We did about 15 meets for our guild back in the day... wow that seems a lifetime ago! in fact the last meet we did was the bank holiday weekend in August, and was the weekend before I started LL for the firt time!! great bunch of people, many who we are still friends with. We have hosted 3 meets at our house, great memoreis. We don't play anymore, but have talked of all meeting up sometime this year, would be ace to be at goal for that, they have never seen me slim!
hehe that is awsome - we are more similar than you think Min, so I would never laugh
My events in may .. I say events as there are actually 3!! On 11th May is my husbands, aunt's 60th, all the in-laws are going and I don't think I have ever been drunk with my in-laws as I have always been dieting or had my boys to think of.. my boys are staying with my mum over night and me and hubby are booked into a hotel, so would really like to indulge I think... then on 12th is our wedding anniversary so we have booked for a 2 michelin star resturant! ekkk.... then to top it off on 16th May is my company's annual conference, the only time where all employees (around 400!) are together (I spoke at this event last year, that seems crazy now!) and as I work based at home, but love my regional team, it's a great chance to get together and drink.. haha our team usually is up till around 4am! We have hotels etc, and it's a real good experience, very motivaltional for work, so again not sure. Writing this makes me think I want to 'enjoy' each event, and SS the rest of the week, and maybe treat it as my weeks break. I know in the future when such events come round I will want to indludge, but then balance it like you said, that is the key! I am gonig to see how I am feeling come may, but at mo am planning a food break. x
I'm VERY impressed with the 15 guild meets!! I can't say I can match that (yet), like you I've made some very good friends through there, some who will remain our friends even when we eventually stop raiding together. I really hope you get to see them again this year!!
I will obviously try to document my food days here. I am not going to waste my foodpacks this week, so will return to them on Monday 15th April - just you watch!
The meals stayed pretty true to what I had outlined previously; with an addition of an apple as a sweet snack during Game of Thrones.
Thank you, I fully agree, I should be getting more calories as I'm eating real food. 
