Day 30

I know I don't usually blog on a Saturday, but I just wanted to have a quick gloat about how well my CD day has gone. Most of the day went boringly well. I had a couple of soups with a little added psyllium husk, some green tea, black coffee and about a litre and a half of water - textbook stuff.

For dinner I cooked some turkey breast pieces with celeriac, mushrooms and some broccoli. I browned off the turkey with some 1kcal oil spray then poached it in a little water with diced celeriac and some sage and rosemary. When that was almost cooked, I put in the sliced mushrooms and the broccoli cut into small pieces, stirred it all together and then pulled out the meat and kept it on a warmed plate. When the rest of the veg was cooked, in just a couple of minutes, I removed it from the cooking liquid then reduced the liquid down to just a few spoonfuls. I dished up the meat and vegetables, a small portion for me and the rest for the boyfriend, then I poured the reduced cooking liquid over my helping. It was one of the nicest dinners I've had for ages!

And as if that joy wasn't enough, I cooked some oven chips for the boyfriend but misjudged the quantity and made enough for both of us. After we had eaten our meal, I was looking at the still warm leftover chips. I picked one up and thought 'I could just eat a couple of these, what harm could it do?' just as boyfriend came in and saw me standing there, chip in hand.

"I really want to eat these," I said " I think I will."
"I'm sure it'll be alright" he replied "there are only a few, it'll be fine."

I was just about to put it in my mouth then I remember those starving days last weekend when I was close to tears and ready to eat my own pets. I turned around, put the chip back on the plate, put the plate out of sight and left the kitchen feeling so damned pleased with myself.

A little later, I managed to make a perfect toffee and walnut flavour mix-a-mousse too. I think maybe the water wasn't cold enough the first time I tried it or something. It came out a perfect, quivering, gelatinous dessert of joy this time and it was delicious too! I guess that's my reward for not going chip crazy. I've found I need to have some water handy when I have mix-a-mousse though, it seems to dry my mouth out more than the shakes usually do. It's not a problem though, in fact it's quite useful really.