Day Twenty-three: Happy Monday

One of the lovely ladies who has been leaving me encouraging comments here was kind enough to point me at a Facebook group full of excellent people who are also doing 5:2. I'm really enjoying getting to know them. This morning one of their number started the day declaring that "the best day of the week has arrived, it's a whole new fresh week, whatever happened last week can be put behind us and we go again starting today". What a fantastic sentiment to get up to. I do try to enjoy the feeling of "doing something" towards achieving my goals. While I'm very glad it's only 2 days a week, this is my chance to make a difference. Every tummy rumble reminds me that I'm heading where I want to go, however small the steps are.

I completely failed to keep my food diary over the weekend. I was away at a lovely health spa with Dream, so the food was exquisitely prepared and severely portion controlled. Luckily for us we had taken the precaution of bringing plenty of scooby snacks with us - I had no intention of feeling hungry on a non-fast day! But the result was a lot of tiny amounts of lots of different kinds of food and I was way too lazy and relaxed to try to work out exactly what was on my plate. Thankfully Monday is new start, and I get a new start every Monday, so the food diary attempt begins again now!

While I still don't want to count calories daily, I just worked out that I can use MyFitnessPal on my phone to scan barcodes to upload nutritional data direct from food packaging into the food diary. I guess I already knew that in theory but hadn't quite got around to trying it out until this evening. It's easy and fun to do so I will be scanning everything I can get my hands on now to try to make the logging effort a bit easier.

Looking forward to some of this tomorrow: