You may wonder why I have started with a picture of Sainsbury's in Bracknell - well, I owe big apologies to any shopper with mobility issues who may have been shopping there at Saturday lunchtime - to be revealed later!
Well, all I can say about this week is that I got through it without any major damages. Unfortunately I am without my special reading scales this week so it is a weight only reading of 125.6 kg. This is a 0.5 kg drop from last week but a) I am not surprised and b) I am lucky I did not increase.
Left Bonn at 7 a.m. on Thursday morning for the first leg of my 3 day drive - 1250 km to Narbonne in the South of France. Freezer bag all prepared with all necessary food supplies for the next 3 days. Nightmare journey with torrential rain & high winds for most of the trip but arrived at 6 pm. After checking in at the hotel and getting sorted I thought that I deserved a glass of wine so I went to the bar. I had a small pitcher of vin rouge & refused the menu as I had a bag of cold chicken waiting in my room & "Non monsieur, je ne veux pas le petit dejeuner demain". Really tested when the guy sat opposite me had a plate of French cheese delivered B*****D but I gripped my knife strongly & resisted the temptation to go & stab him.
I hope you choke on your Camembert!
Had my cereal for breakfast although the milk was starting to taste of bit iffy along with some eggs that I had boiled the day before - another strange smell! Spent 5 hours dismantling furniture and loading the car and then set off on leg 2, a short 700 km this afternoon. Opened up my cool bag to have a very late lunch & decided to close it quickly as it did not reveal pleasant odours. Once again having arrived at the hotel I decided that I would try something off the menu so without asking what it contained I selected the Salad de Langres (town where I was staying). Ah, the salad constituted a lettuce leaf and half a tomato with a large piece of French bread covered in goat's cheese - not the best combination!
6.30 departure on Saturday morning after emptying the rest of my cool bag (well, not so cool bag now) in the bin. 7.15 & the result of me eating cheese & bread for the first time in 6 weeks meant that I had to take an early pitstop at a service station! I also needed to buy something to eat as I had a very long jorney ahead of me so I bought what looked like the least damaging product which was two mini rolls with ham. B****r, I forgot that the French liked to add loads of mayonnaise & I really did not enjoy the greasy texture. Another 4 stops between Langres & Calais as the bike rack kept on coming undone - not a happy driver. Needed petrol as I was going around the M25 so I stopped at Cobham services. Also needed to have some lunch to keep my energy up as I was fading rapidly and at least I could check the ingredients this time. A fairly innocuous looking chicken sandwich which I ate after leaving. Then the traffic came to a halt on the M25 just as my tummy was starting to say, "what have you done to me?!" After 30 minutes of sitting in stationary traffic we started to move and I came off at the next exit in absolute agony knowing that there was a Sainsbury's store about 20 km away - ah, the link is starting. Hand-brake turned in the car park & quick walked with pained face into the customer toilets. WTF!!! The one toilet in the men's section was occupied. No choice - disabled toilets ahead & empty. Well I am very sorry to anybody who visited in the next 2 hours & I would not be surprised if the store was not evacuated.
The moral of the story is that on the Dukan diet food products that are not allowed & introduced very slowly & carefully after you have reached your target weight & I can now see why!
Anyway as I said at the beginning I was lucky to have got away without gaining weight last week & my resolve is even stronger than before. It is my youngest son's 15th birthday today & I really hope he has a lovely day and enjoys the cream eclairs, chocolate birthday cake & dark rich chocolate mousse because I will be enjoying my cottage cheese & chicken again.
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