Day 4

My boyfriend returned from his weekend away yesterday so from today I had to start thinking about food we could both eat, which was a bit tricky because he works nights. We only usually share one meal a day which would be my dinner/his breakfast and occasionally we share another, which is my lunch/his dinner. He has quite a physical job and needs to eat a lot, I'm adamant I'm going to stick to CD so what I decided to do was to only share 1 meal a day; my dinner/his breakfast and feed him what I'm eating but in much larger quantities. It's at times like this I really look forward to being able to go on SS, then he can sort out his own damned dinners.

This morning I went for a skimpy 150kcal breakfast so I could have a bigger lunch. For my morning sachet I chose the toffee and walnut flavour, I blended it with lots and lots of ice. It came out a lovely thick ice-cream type texture and the flavour was really nice. This is my favourite flavour shake so far and I'll be ordering lots more of these but I still found it a chore to get through. Tomorrow I'm going to divide the sachet in half and have 2 little shakes instead.

At lunchtime I wasn't feeling hungry at all. My stomach had been playing up all morning, I'm hoping it isn't something I ate or drank. In my late teens and early twenties, I had problems with lactose intolerance. I found as I got older that it was manageable if I was sensible and didn't overdo the milky stuff. Most of the shake sachets are milk-powder based, there are a few lactose free soups and shakes and If I can only have those, I don't mind too much but it would be a shame to be limited like that. If I don't feel better in a day or two, I'll start worrying about it. I did manage to consume a vegetable soup sachet and it was very nice, but I struggled to finish it within the 15 minutes. I really couldn't face any proper food at that time so I ate my lunch several hours later.

Because of my late lunch, dinner ended up being very late and I still wasn't feeling too hungry. I cooked the prawn stir-fry with rice and added a few sliced mushrooms and some fresh spinach for luck. It was really good, this has to be my favourite recipe so far (sorry lasagne) and again it was a shockingly large portion but I guess it was mostly lightly cooked, fresh vegetables so I shouldn't worry about it. Although I wasn't very hungry, I still almost cleared my plate and my boyfriend really enjoyed it too. I trebled the quantities in the recipe. I had a third, boyfriend ate a third for his breakfast and the rest went into his lunchbox for him to reheat at work.