Emotional eating

 I had a bit of a blow on Friday last week - I received a letter to tell me that my position at work is under threat of redundancy.  That rather hit me for six and my immediate reaction was all about food for comfort.  Instead of cooking myself something healthy, I ordered Chinese to be delivered from the China brasserie.  At least this was mitigated slightly by only ordering egg fried rice and crispy lamb - no starters.  And I only ate half of the rice on Friday night.  Saturday, my partner and I went to Weymouth, as I'd anticipated - to see my mother for her 70th birthday.  We went out to a lovely restaurant - Vaughn's.  It's on the quay in Weymouth, looking out over the harbour.  I chose to have plaice and it came with a nice medley of steamed vegetables and new potatoes.  On Sunday, when I got home, the other half of the egg fried rice, dressed with a little light soy sauce, reheated, made a very good lunch.  After the weekend indulgences, I've been back on track - also keeping my food bill as low as possible, by continuing with cheap options like Ryvita and cheese spread for lunch.  Sainsbury's Basic Muesli is also extremely good value. 

Anyhow, I've not been on the scales for a little while, but got on this morning - and was happy to see that my weight is now 12st 11lb.  I have noticed that the weight loss so far is allowing me to put on trousers that I was unable to do up at the beginning of October - in fact, I wore a relatively new pair of green cord jeans for the visit to my mum, which I definitely hadn't been able to get over my bottom for several months.  This is all very encouraging and good positive reinforcement.  The thing that I still haven't got to grips with is exercise, but I may well have to be more active over the next few weeks, doing jobs to ready my house for sale, if I am made redundant.