Monday. Greetings from a grim hotel room in London

Hi All,
Well the weather has taken a turn for the worse and it is freezing. I have had to come up to London this evening to take part in an event linked to something I was working on prior to my redundancy. It means I will see some ex colleagues for the first time in a few weeks and frankly the level of support I got from these particular guys was zero....very disappointing...most people were great but just not these....so anyway I am a bit stressed out at the thought. Ordinarily this would send me directly to the bread bin but no, I will rise above it all and I will be fine.....
Food today consisted of a bowl of porridge, a ciabatta sandwich and yazai yaki soba with a small glass of wine at Wagamamas. I'm a BIG fan of the Wagamama chain....yum- the portions are large and in fact I couldn't eat it all! I could have cheerfully demolished another couple of glasses of wine to calm the nerves but a) it is Monday night and b) my motto is "Nil Illegitimus Carborandum" which in Latin roughly equates to "Don't let the b-ds grind you down" so I had better start practicing what I preach, eh?
Got an exercise class in today as well so feeling pretty good on that front too.
Got some work to do so signing off for now. Hope you guys are all having a good day!
Cheers
Susie

Day One done

Hi- just a quick observation note at the end of day one- given that as I don't yet have a copy of the No S book I have no idea if this has been a day of doing it "right"- but one thing I have noticed already is how much I am inclined to mindlessly nibble while preparing dinner...maybe it's only veggies but not the point really- I need to really focus on stopping that habit. As soon as I realised what I was doing I stopped myself. The other is...I have a really gross diet coke habit. I don't know why, but it suddenly struck me how much I was consuming and that it must be full of crap. Think I'll do some research on that and post it up on here...watch this space!
Today I ate:

Porridge with water sweetened with splenda...that's a habit as I freak out about having sugar but what with all the artificial sweetener in the DC as well...need to think about that!
Lunch was a ciabatta sandwich filled with lean ham and salad
Dinner was chicken with potatoes and veggies. (plus a bit of veg nibbled while preparing )

I have to say that I did feel hungry about an hour or so after the porridge, but it might have been thirst as it did disappear after a while.

Off to fill in my daily "result" now on the everydaysystems forum- I'll post the stats up every few days> Hope you are all having a good day!
Best
Susie

The Morning After...

Morning All, apparently my blog isn't too rubbish lol (thank you for being nice cos I know that it is AT THE MOMENT!!). It's 8 45 am and I normally go out for a run with a group on Sunday mornings but I have something on which means I can't - but I will later, promise! I love my Sunday runs. We go around the countryside near Salisbury in Wiltshire which for the uninitiated is one of the prettiest areas of the UK, and the views are fantastic. One of my favourites is the "Llama Run"- there is a Llama and camel farm nearby and I have to tell you that the first time I ran by the camels I thought I was hallucinating- I hadn't been running for long then and I thought I had a serious problem with lack of oxygen to the brain....as unless I have been missing something you don't tend to see a lot of llamas/ camels in the English countryside!

www.visitwiltshire.co.uk/salisbury/home

To add to my motivation to get my a**e out of the door later on today is that I am watching the TV coverage of the London marathon - it is going to be a WARM day today so those runners are going to be having a tough time of it I reckon....maybe next year...haven't run a marathon before...could be my next challenge...but actually at the moment I need to keep my main focus on sorting my diet out! Oh yes, and get a job....soon (please!)

So, here we are, day one. D-day, or rather, no S day. Yes, I know it is Sunday and even I have figured out that this would be an S day, but I feel I have had quite enough of those kinds of days recently and I really need to try and get some order in to my day as far as food is concerned. Here we go then.........................See you all later!

Oh, by the way, the Latin phrase....spelling might be a bit out (don't know any ancient Romans to check it out with) but the rough translation is "Don't let the bas***ds grind you down".
Cheers
Susie

"The Night Before...."

Good Evening All from the UK- and it's a lovely evening too; a bit chilly but blue skies and sunny, with more of the same forecast for tomorrow (why do Brits always talk about the weather?) However, sunny as it is, I am mightily hacked off. Why? Because I cannot begin to describe the amount of crap that I have managed to consume in the last 24 hours. It's "that time" of the month, I am bored, miserable and anxious- I was very recently made redundant from a well paid job with nothing on the horizon to make me feel better, and today I received my P45 (that's the form you get when you leave work). It all seemed soooo final (because I guess it is!) So, of course, I decided to dust myself down, think positive and get cracking looking for a new great (better) job. Did I heck. I hoovered up the carbohydrate content of the entire house. So now I feel crap (no job) and crap (fat) and crap (weak willed) etc, etc.... Trouble is, this keeps happening. I am not particularly overweight in that my BMI is the higher end of normal- but I exercise a lot- just as well or my BMI would be way, way higher!! But my life is focused on food; eat/ don't eat. Good/ bad food. Good day/ bad day. Three meals and snacks- because that is healthy, right? No? No carbs then. Carbs are BAD. Trouble is, no carbs means I can't run after about a week. I'm just too tired out. So carbs are GOOD then. Must eat more...Weightwatchers. Slim Fast. Atkins. Slimming World. Rosemary Conley. For PETE'S SAKE!!!
I consider myself to be a reasonably intelligent person. So why can't I just sort myself out where food is concerned?
It so happened that on Thursday night I was stuck on a train home from London and googling the next big diet on my BlackBerry (I know, how sad is that? Why not see what is on at the cinema instead or something? ) and I came across "No S". Now, I haven't even got the book in my hands yet but I read enough that something just triggered off in my sad ol'brain and I thought I need to give this a go. A real go. So I thought I would share it all with whomever wanted to read it.
I've never blogged before and my skills are a bit lacking so this blog will probably look a bit sad for a while until I learn about how to manage it but hey, that's another thing I will have learned!
Tomorrow is Day One. Looking forward to sharing it all with you. No holds barred, promise!
Best
SusieB