LRD

I forgot to weigh myself before holidays but I've been sitting at 16st 1lb for ages. After my holidays I was 16st 6½lb - nothing new there then. 

So I was straight on to the Liver Reduction Diet. Even though I had decided on the real food, I almost switched to milk (4 pints a day, with sugar free jelly and a drink of Bovril) I figured if calves can do it so can I (am I comparing myself to a baby cow - probably) but went back to real food, and it's been fine. Breakfast - slice of toast with 2 scrambled eggs, Lunch - tuna salad, portion of fruit, half pitta bread, Supper - 125g mash, small chicken breast (100g), low carb veg, Muller light yogurt, piece of fruit. I've lost 7lbs in the first 3 days. Now if any one is now thinking why don't I just do this and lose weight - shame on you lol. As I've said a hundred times it's not the losing, it's the keeping it off. It's borderline impossible! Anyway, I'm hungry but I'm coping just dandy.

Talking with my daughter the other day about exercise I told her that I was having an operation on my stomach not my brain, I wasn't going to wake up a gym bunny! She argued that I certainly would! But the more I've thought about it the more I realise she actually has a point. My stomach, and then my whole body will be changing. I need to ensure that my brain (thoughts, feelings, habits) changes too. If not, I risk the the procedure being a very expensive mistake. I can do this. I already feel different. I'm reading everything I can. I'm on a WhatsApp group with fellow chunkies who are having the surgery this month (3 of which at the same time as me - even figured out who I'll probably be sharing a room with) and the chat and info has been priceless.

It was my birthday when I was away so we celebrated in a nice Italian restaurant (as you do when in Turkey). I ordered this starter (pictured) not because I thought I'd like it, just because it sounded awesome - salted sea bass, red pepper avocado, shrimp, quails egg, salmon caviar, beetroot foam. Wow, and yeah it wasn't very nice lol. But I know someone who would have loved it! 

Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind.