Live Below the Line Day 3

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who has donated so far to my Live Below the Line Challenge. I'm over the target I set myself already. And if you'd like to donate and haven't done so yet, you can do so here.

Let's buy that cow!

Hope you all had a nice trip to the voting booths today. I liked reading some of the ridiculous party slogans on the ballot paper. "NOimmigrants NOeu NOsomethingelsefascistinlowercaseandoneword"
Oh well.

Yesterday was a much better day. I had the same things to eat for breakfast and lunch yesterday, plus a drink from the machine. I went to meet my writing group last night (they were discussing a short story of Rod Rees's and my novel's first chapter), so I microwaved my dahl and rice at 5.30 and smuggled it to eat upstairs on the bus on the way there. Naughty me.

Of course, my writing group meets in a pub...

Picture me salivating at the prospect of cider! Amazingly, I was fine with my water. I think I was dizzy enough from the lack of food.

Except, I manged to eat a sufficient amount yesterday. How did I achieve that? Well, I had a sneaky second bowl of porridge when I got home and used my pear to sweeten it - this was fine. Who needs extra sweetener?!

What this did though was push my Weight Watchers Points over the daily allowance for the first time this week.

Look at all those smiley faces!

Here's the boringly meticulous MyFitnessPal stats:

(and with that, statto fans, I'm off to bed).

May 21, 2014

Foods	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Cholest	Sodium	Sugars	Fiber
Breakfast
Milk - Whole, 3.25% milkfat, 100 g	60	5g	3g	3g	10mg	40mg	5g	0g
Sugar - Sugar, 2 tsp	30	8g	0g	0g	0mg	0mg	8g	0g
Porridge - Porridge, 50 g	186	17g	2g	2g	0mg	0mg	5g	1g
Lunch
Kingsmill Medium Sliced - 50/50, 2 slice	188	33g	2g	8g	0mg	320mg	3g	4g
Sainsbury's - Cooked Ham Basic Slice, 1 Slice	15	0g	1g	2g	0mg	245mg	0g	0g
Cucumber - With peel, raw, 0.1 cucumber (8-1/4")	5	1g	0g	0g	0mg	1mg	1g	0g
Lettuce - Iceberg (includes crisphead types), raw, 2 leaf outer	11	2g	0g	1g	0mg	8mg	1g	1g
Dinner
Sainsbury's Basics - White Rice, 100 g	351	78g	1g	7g	0mg	0mg	0g	2g
Sainsburys - Yellow Split Peas, 100 g	104	17g	0g	8g	0mg	0mg	2g	5g
Garlic - Garlic, 0.25 clove	1	0g	0g	0g	0mg	0mg	0g	0g
Vegetables - Red Chilli, Raw, 2.5 g/1 chilli	2	0g	0g	0g	0mg	0mg	0g	0g
Aldi New Season - Frozen Mixed Vegetables, 80 grams	39	4g	1g	2g	0mg	9mg	4g	0g
Spices - Cumin, 1 tsp	8	1g	0g	0g	0mg	4mg	0g	0g
Onions - Raw, 0.75 medium (2-1/2" dia)	35	8g	0g	1g	0mg	2mg	4g	1g
Snacks
Porridge - Porridge, 50 g	186	17g	2g	2g	0mg	0mg	5g	1g
Milk - Whole, 3.25% milkfat, 1 tbsp	9	1g	0g	0g	2mg	6mg	1g	0g
Pears - Raw, 1 pear, small (approx 3 per lb)	81	21g	0g	1g	0mg	1mg	14g	4g
Vending Machine - Hot Chocolate, 1 small cup	90	18g	2g	0g	0mg	0mg	16g	0g
TOTAL:	1,401	231g	14g	37g	12mg	636mg	69g	19g