The Weekend

Ok, so I never said that this was going to be easy. I suppose my main focus was to still be social and not slip and end up sinking my usual consumption of alcohol. Empty calories my mum calls it. What is worse, I am guaranteed to crave something awful to eat in an attempt to get me out of a hangover.

Proudly though, I managed to go to a gathering at a friend’s new apartment (pic of his view at the side - not jealous!) and only have 2 glasses of wine. I could have quite easily polished off the whole bottle and not without some chastising from my ‘mates’ too. This early in, I can’t set myself up for failure, so, in a way my stubbornness saved me as I proved to them that I could just have one or two glasses not one or two bottles. The nibbles of crisps kept looking at me, tempting me with their deep friend carbohydrate delightfulness, but I withstood. Looking back, it was difficult at the time, but I am now proud of myself for not scoffing them - the good has outweighed the bad!

Friday was my day off Health Factory. It consisted of whole wheat toast for breakfast and then BBQ in the afternoon. The BBQ was bliss, perfect weather, good company and amazing food. I stuck to the meat and salad and avoided the bread, which amused onlookers as I used tomato slices instead of a burger bun! A little messy but very tasty. We went out at night to see a great DJ play and my plan of not taking any money out worked, and I only had the drinks that I was offered (vodka, lime and soda). So I saved money and the calories which was awesome.

All in all a great weekend, no hangovers, I remember everything, didn’t fall over and make a fool of myself, didn’t spend an arm and a leg and still had copious amounts of fun - in fact I will have to say it is up there in the top 5 of weekends!