Well, it is New Year.

Another new start and I am really going to make some changes around here. I can't cope with Ms Sabbath's menu. We don't organise ourselves that way. It just is too complicated. I need a flexible approach where I have the strength of mind to say NO to offered temptation.

So, I am going back to the old fashioned counting calories - in my own inimitable style - i.e. guesswork.

Today's menu consisted of:
Boiled egg, two pieces of toast with marg.
Many cups of tea and one coffee (counted as 250ml ss milk)
A hot chicken sandwich - chicken and two slices of bread and marg - plus a handful of chips I didn't ask for that came on the plate with it. I gave half the chips away.
A slice of home-made date and banana cake.
A medium baked potato with marg and grated cheese, served with cabbage, French beans and carrots. Covered in gravy.
Sparking water.
One extra strong mint.

Total calories - around 1700.

If I can carry on doing this, I will succeed where so many attempts have failed.