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Even if you don't feel like doing it...

 Never miss a Monday - this may just become a mantra to as I'm clinging onto this rule today. 

I've been away for the weekend,  our summer 'holiday'  I'm not sure that 2 nights away a couple of hours drive away counts as a holiday but it's all we're having so it is what it is.  

It was a celebration weekend for my parents 50th wedding anniversary and I had been really looking forward to it for months.  When I made my decision to start to make improvements to my health I was obviously aware of this weekend and I had the choice of course to be good,  be somewhere in the middle or say sod it get back on track on Monday. 

Well,  you can probably take a guess at what I did! 

If I was the kind of person to easily decide to 'diet' all weekend I'm not the kind that chooses to blog about it am I?

Fish and chips, and a massive slice of lemon meringue for lunch,    KFC delivered to the villa Friday evening. 

Bakery savoury pastries for lunch on Saturday,   Chinese for the main celebration Saturday night with several glasses of champagne. 

Rounding it all off on Sunday morning with a big full English breakfast before we left Paphos and a Vanilla milkshake from the drive through Mcdonalds on the highway as we stopped on the way home. 

Anyway,  it was a great weekend,   lovely villa, private pool,  AIR CON on 24/7 - amazing! 

If I'd decided to start @FitnFab4Fifty after the weekend it would be harder now,  as it stands now this is just a blog post for me, I can bang that out instead of eating a bad breakfast, by the time I'm done I'll be much more inclined to eat some fruit. 

I'm not going to do a weekly weigh in on here,  primarily as I think my scales are unreliable but I did get on this morning and they were dangerously close to 15 stone,   (my original SW starting weight that I mentioned in my 1st post was 15 st 1.5lb)  

So I got up, took the dog straight out, came back hot, sweaty and exhausted (and it was a short walk sadly)  and sat down to write this,  I've not even stopped for a cup of tea!

But I'm back and today I will try and make a plan to be able to share a better blog update next Monday. 


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