Hotel Breakfasts, Customer Meetings & a Sense of Uncertainty

Hotel Breakfasts, Customer Meetings & a Sense of Uncertainty

So, same old same old, I woke up, I got up and got ready to visit customer site for 2 meetings in Utrecht, and then I went down to breakfast.

I ordered tea, and got myself a yogurt (bio, but probably not low fat, they only have one sort of yogurts in my hotel), and 2 boiled eggs with ham and cherry tomatoes – not the most traditional of breakfasts but I needed syn free ham and eggs to cover the syns probably hidden in my yogurt, and the scrambled egg looked like it had cream in, and fried eggs are not ok – so, I think in the circumstances I chose as well as I could – but of course, I was still worried about the yogurt (but I ate it anyway). I took an apple and an orange with me as I don’t think I have a break for lunch today and I may well want them….

I forgot to tell you yesterday, not that it will have impacted you in any way– but, my satnav broke – I got to the Netherlands, plugged it in and it would not let me select anything on the top half of the screen – which given ‘navigate to’ is on the top – is very unhelpful. It has all my usual addresses for client sites, hotels, our office etc saved in their – so that was a tiny bit pants frankly. Anyway, I used the internet on my phone to find the addresses I needed, and google maps on the phone to navigate to the hotel – it was pretty good but drains the battery. So, I learnt a new skill, and need a new satnav.

I also used my phone to navigate to the clients this morning, and in case of having trouble with this new equipment / process (which I fully expected but didn’t happen) I arrived at customer site a little early, so I logged on to do some work, and the lovely receptionist bought me a coffee (I was very restrained and didnt eat the biscuit, but still a couple of syns):

Then off to my meetings, and well I was right about lunch, the break didn’t really happen so I ate my orange (I’m not going to put a picture of an orange, as I am pretty certain you all know what that looks like :) ).

After my meetings I rushed between the client site and my hotel to do a conference call I was not looking forward to. I thought there would be a fair amount of accusations and conflict on the call and I was wishing it over before it began, and then bizarrely it went really well and all was fine – no conflict, nothing untoward – I definitely did a small section of the happy dance when I finished that call.

And as if by magic it was 5.15pm by then, I had been sitting down in meetings pretty much all day, which meant if felt like a good idea to change and go down to the gym – 45 mins later I felt a little better. 30 minutes on the cross trainer and 15 on the bike – I usually run but my knee Is a little sore and I thought the other equipment might not be quite so high impact on it.

All day, even though I have been on plan – the tiny doubting voice has been on at me that I won’t lose this week – and I am trying to put things into perspective. I will not be able to go to my usual weigh in on Wednesday evening as I will still be here, BUT I can make the one on Friday morning. I will not be able to measure, plan and take the care I do at home with my food and syns, BUT I can make informed choices and try to compensate a little with less of the food and more of the exercise. Fingers crossed the +ve side wins as my Christmas wish for myself is to have a loss every week till Christmas, I don’t mind how small a loss – but a loss, and I will f eel a little crushed if I have an epic fail this week. Sigh.

I have a final conference call now – then I am free for the evening, which when you are on your own in a hotel is pretty damn dull frankly. My plan – maybe dinner, a swim (?), some TV and reading – blog completed and published and I am planning to do a little work on tomorrows blog – as I wanted to think about and find photos to show my journey a little more clearly, where I started, when I put on, me at my biggest, progress so far – which I think will be interesting for me at least, to put things in context – maybe even help keep me motivated, like writing to you every day does (thank you for that).

So after my final call dinner was very welcome ( I sat with the menu for some time actually, the problem was that I don’t know where the meat comes from (we all know I can’t eat that then!), the only fish on the menu I have tried before and it was a bit too fishy (I have no other explanation – it just was too fishy), and there are 4 vegetarian options: 1)Lasagne which I had yesterday 2) Pizza – not ok 3) Pasta stuffed with Ricotta which comes in a really creamy sauce so not ok 4) The Veggie burger with salad – but this comes with fries. Having had the fries before and knowing they are not that greasy or that there aren’t that many of them I opted for the burger tonight – and here it is:

So fingers crossed I made the right choice, and that my uncertainty about the scales this week proves unnecessary. Hope you all had a good on plan day x