A healthy new me emerges

Having spent the majority of my life on a diet only to end up giving up every time I lost weight, giving myself a reward for doing so well, then failing to start again until I had put back on all or most of the weight that I had lost has left me in my mid thirties deciding that as I, as I was so nicely informed this week am "pushing 40" I do not want to be batting with my weight as I move over into my next decade of life.

After many fad diets, carb free, only soup, 1200 calories, bananas and milk, special k, weight watchers, slimming world, slim fast, pills, yes I have tried them all & no they have not worked for me at all. The only thing to do is the good old fashioned way of eating sensible, healthy food 1800 calories a day and exercising every single day for the minimum time of an hour.

Being a keen cook, food is something that is always on my mind, and not something that giving up having delicious foods is an option for.

Last night, in a bid to reduce my carb intake from 12pm I had egg white omelet stuffed with a slice of ham, a low fat slice of cheese & served with salad with balsamic vinegar on the side.

Not being a natural lover of leaves, it was quite interesting to actually eat salad and to taste some of the great flavours that I had shunned for over 30 years, it was quite delicious.

Morrison's do a lovely sweet salad in a bag complete with carrot, pepper and a selection of leaves that at the small price of 99p the bag will easily last me a few days.

My Omelet comprised of

1 whole egg
2 egg whites
pinch of white pepper
spray of olive oil to coat the small pan
one slice of sainsburys Brunswick ham
one slice of ledammer light cut into 4 pieces
fresh chives snipped to garnish

I mixed together the eggs and pepper in a bowl.

meanwhile I heated the oil in a pan then added in the eggs, tilting the pan to ensure that the eggs ran to the side & flipped once cooked on one side.

Then on half the upturned omelet i lay the cheese and ham and after a couple of minutes once browned on the other side I tilted the pan so that the omelet folded in half like a giant sandwich and rolled it onto my waiting salad plate and garnished with the chives.

Not my actual omelet, but it looked a lot like this one!

It was Delicious, I enjoyed every mouthful, sorry that there are no pictures of this amazing omelet that came in at a grand total of 173 calories (with salad) but it was consumed for too quickly for the camera to come out and document it.

The fact that the rest of the family were tucking into a pot roast chicken casserole that I had made them, complete with Yorkshire puddings, potatoes and vegetables could I suppose have contributed to me eating it so quickly, but surprisingly I was quite full afterwards, and from 6pm until going to bed, a juicy red apple was the only other thing that I had eaten.

A day of trying very hard on the diet has not only worked successfully, but I enjoyed every part of it. The part of course except for throwing away my sons Yorkshire pudding remains, it was a close call, but i managed not to pinch his leftovers when the washing up started.