Today's excuse

Death is bad for diets. And there've been lots of deaths this last week. Death, especially of someone younger than me, makes me say, 'Blow the diet, life is too short.'

I will start again. Soon. But perhaps not today.

Excuses

Had family to stay.
Been busy.
Husband has athlete's foot. (Okay, not really relevant.)
Scale not working.
Diet gone to pot.

But now I'm back with a new all-singing, all-dancing weighing scales from Weightwatchers. I only got it out of the box today and I've already spent too much time shouting at it. Not because of my weight: that's still - amazingly - 140 lbs. But because it says 'tap lightly to switch on'.

I tapped lightly. I pressed long and hard. It seems the scale only turns on when it wants to.

I thought it might be that I hadn't fully removed the bit of tape that stops the battery going dead but in order to check that I had to find the teeniest screwdriver in the house. It looked as though the battery was a bit wonky so I removed and reinserted it and ... the scale still only works when it wants to.

I've put it to one side for a bit to see if it decides to start behaving before I have to take it back to the shop.

Meanwhile I'm trying again.

Very trying.

Food Diary
Weetabix
baked potato, baked beans and cheese
murray mint
salad
lamb chop
potato salad, coleslaw
Maltesers

FitBit 
On charge and then forgot to wear it but didn't have much exercise

Food Diary
Weetabix
2 slices bread and butter
banana
bits pizza
salad
potato salad
coleslaw
bread and butter

FitBit (at 9.12 pm)
15,713 steps
6.57 miles
2,023 calories

Tuesday 
Food Diary
Weetabix
muffin
3 ryvita
banana
crisps
bread 
salad
Burger
coleslaw
couscous
2 muffins

FitBit (at 10.03 pm)
13,832 steps
5.81 miles
2,027 calories

Sunday
Food Diary
Weetabix
cherries
3 ryvita and butter
1 dairylea triangle
chunk french bread
roast lamb dinner
gooseberry crumble and custard
orange

FitBit (at 10.00 pm)
14,451 steps
6.04 miles
2,021 calories

Monday
Food Diary
Weetabix
Ice cream cone
chunk french bread and butter
banana
nectarine
about to have a kiwi and later will have beans on toast and an orange

FitBit (at 7.57 pm)
14,468 steps
6.07 miles
2,053 calories

Food Diary
weetabix
banana
4 ginger biccies (124 calories each)
cherries
salad
steak
coleslaw

FitBit (at 8.29 pm)
12,973 steps
5.43 miles
1,847 calories