YAY for friendly neighbours

Last night I got home and my neighbour was in the cul-de-sac with her children on their bikes so we spoke for a couple of minutes before I went in. K went out and was playing with the children and then the little girl wanted to show K her birthday presents so off they went, then the two boys followed them inside and I went into the house to do some work on my fit ball (finally !!) before starting dinner (stir fry). I was getting undressed when I heard the front gate so called out to K that the sliding door was open and this voice came back saying it wasn’t K it was my neighbour so I quickly got dressed and went to the door. She had come to see if I had started cooking or if we would like to go around to them for dinner as she had more than enough food for them and us. So I said thank you very much, went and got changed, got some drinks and went over. What a lovely evening – her husband wasn’t back from a seminar he was running, so we sat chatting and the kids were playing hide and seek and then K read them a story before they went to bed. A lovely change from having to cook and do it all myself !!!!! The down side was I wasn’t sure how to point what she had cooked – chicken stir fry with noodles, mushrooms, carrots, satay sauce and some coconut milk – so guessed at 10. Of course then the rest of the night was a mad rush to talk to Al, get K showered and ready for bed and then off to work but well worth not having to cook and clean up myself and having some good adult conversation as well !!!
I don’t know what it is but more people seem to be noticing that I have lost weight. It isn’t only people who haven’t seen me for a while – sometimes it is people who see me every day or at least once a week – very strange !!!! I was thinking about it last night at work and wondered if maybe it was because now I am wearing clothes that actually fit me rather than clothes that are 2 or 3 sizes too big for me – maybe they couldn’t see me under the bigger sizes – don’t really know but what I do know is that they are keeping me motivated to stick to my plan for the week, so YAY for that !!!!
This morning at 9.30 I went to get my morning snack and realised that I wasn’t actually hungry and that I was just eating out of habit. Since I have been having cereal/yoghurt or avo on toast for breakfast I don’t get hungry until quite a bit later in the morning but I have still been eating my dried fruit at 9.30 because I have always done that. So today I waited until I actually felt hungry at 10.40 before I pulled my morning tea out. Now I am thinking about how many other times I eat out of habit rather than because I am hungry and need to – I am sure that there are plenty of occasions when that has happened. While there are times when I open the cupboards thinking “What can I eat” even though I am not hungry, I never really thought about eating out of habit when I am at work. Will have to make a conscious effort to make sure I only eat when I am hungry. I can probably take my lunch from 12.30 or 1pm instead of at 11.30 just because I have always eaten my lunch at that time !!!!! Talk about a creature of habit and if you had asked me if I thought I was a creature of habit I would probably have said no !!!!!!!!! Well what good is this journey if we don’t keep learning about how to deal with life and ourselves along the way !!!
Tomorrow morning we will be down to single digits of sleeps left until Al gets home – YAY !!! Can’t wait to get up to see that !
Take care everyone and have a great day !

TFTD : A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

TIAGF : Friendly neighbours