Merry Christmas!

Lost 1.25lb last week in spite of the work Christmas do so that was good. And I hit the 20% of my starting body weight lost goal too. I can scarcely believe I've lost one fifth of me!

Yesterday was Christmas day, and all I can say food-wise is thank goodness for WW. Between the WW magazine and website I got great recipes for hasselback potatoes, stuffing and bread sauce that were all low in points, I made the stuffing gluten free so my husband could enjoy it too. I actually managed to have my Christmas dinner and traditional Christmas breakfast (smoked salmon & scrambled egg) plus a glass of champagne and come in for the day 0.5point under! I didn't have tea because we ate lunch after 3pm so I just wasn't hungry. I had some clementines and a tiny choccy bar in the evening but that was all I fancied so I didn't need all my points.

We were weighing our turkey to calculate the cooking time (14.5lb - waaaay too much for 3 people what were we thinking??) and I realised that I have lost more than double it's weight! I could barely carry it so goodness knows how I lugged all that weight around before.

Today is boxing day and I had my annual favourite: turkey, cranberry, bread sauce and stuffing sandwiches. I don't normally like meat sandwiches much; too dry, but I LOVE my turkey sandwiches with all the trimmings - better than Christmas dinner in many ways.

I have one day left of my WW week and 3.5 saved points still to use up. I might use a couple tonight but with luck we'll go out for a pizza tomorrow so I might need them then.

We'll only be able to go out if the ice thaws. We had a lot of snow last weekend and earlier in the week. I live in a residential housing estate that is not on the way to anywhere so we don't get gritted. It was fine when it was crunchy snow - perfectly possible to walk or drive on if you took it carefully, but yesterday it rained on top of the compacted snow and refroze - it is an ice rink, I watched one car slide down the street! We dare not take the car out until it thaws a bit, we're at the bottom of a hill and I shudder to think of getting up that hill. Once at the top you hit gritted bus routes and you're fine, but you need to get there first. So my hoped for pizza hangs in the balance, otherwise it's more turkey leftovers!

I had an SP this morning and was down 1.75lb so I'm optimistic for a loss this week even with Christmas.

In non-WW related Christmas news it has been a quiet one. My mother-in-law is staying for the week and she is pleasant undemanding company. I enjoyed cooking the Christmas dinner with my hubby, it's fun when you have someone to share the responsibility and work with, I wouldn't fancy cooking for a huge family while they sit on their arses watching telly and whining. This is the first Christmas ever I have not been with my parents which was strange, but they are coming up to see us in January and I had a nice long chat with them yesterday. On the plus side it meant I controlled the menu and was not tempted by my grandmother's lush trifle with its 2 inch layer of whipped cream on top.

It was a bit of a logistical nightmare shopping online and getting presents delivered to various family members to wrap and give to other family members in my absence. My dad got my mum's present from me in the post about 3 weeks ago, put it in a drawer and forgot about it. It was only when I thanked my mum for her present to me that she realised she hadn't had mine! Not as bad as the year the whole gang came up to my house and my mum left half of my brother's presents in London, but still dad won't live it down!

My grandmother wanted a rather tricky present - an ornament of a wren (her favourite bird). She had one which had been sold by the RSPB and had been a present, but she recently broke it by mistake. She is losing her eyesight which makes it all to easy to knock things over. She was really upset, and the RSPB don't make them any more. So I trawled e-bay and managed to find a brand new boxed RSPB wren on a cherry twig ornament which I hoped was the right one and got it for her (it was the only one available on ebay as well). It turns out it was exactly the right one and she cried with happiness when she opened it! Aww it's nice to get something right - thank god for good old e-bay, before the internet there wasn't prayer of finding things like that.

Anyway I'll stop rambing now. Merry Christmas to you! Have a happy, safe one. If you can, have a virtuous one, and if you can't enjoy it and start afresh in the new year.