Yes Stackie good idea - but slight change of plan (I can hear you all groan, OMG here she goes again lol) - it just all got to me last night, the weight, not sleeping well, my knees - and while I really like the Med woe, it's isn't a quick way to lose weight. I lost precisely 1lb in 2 weeks. Seems to me a better way to eat once you maintain, perhaps.
Soooo I've joined a SW virtual group - and had a good long chat to the consultant, who is lovely and really sounds like she has my back. I can still eat in a Med way (maybe not chucking the olive oil around as much as I've been doing) and use all the canned legumes etc - and I know the woe, it's a bit like my safe harbour. Sometimes my boring safe harbour - but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Not quite sure when I start properly, waiting to hear how the virtual thing works, but will try and use up the fresh(ish) veg in the fridge for now.
In the meantime it's a lovely day and everyone's outdoors - went out to say hi to one set of neighbours who are watching as their son removes yet more shingle from my garden (with my permission), and as I turned to go back in, got hailed by another neighbour Billy. It's like the bloody Waltons
And cross fingers at 11am for me, I'm chatting to a woman about a possible job that came via one of my contacts. Know nothing about it yet...all very interesting.