First of all I forgot to let you know that I lost NOTHING on Friday but I can live with that after last weeks weight lossD

Remember a couple of months ago I was stressing over whether to go to my husbands works christmas party?? Well I did eventually accept and I went on Saturday (first one EVER!!!)

The hotel was beautiful (The Devere Belfry in Birmingham), but we were over the bloody kitchen, so at 5am in the morning we were kept awake by all manner of banging, clanging and slamming of doors!!!!

Anyway back to the party. It was a 1920’s “Gangsters and Flappers” party held in a giant marquee by JD Parties. I went as a gangster and so did my husband. I wore black pinstriped trousers, a white shirt, black tie and a pinstriped trilby. I was a bit disappointed when we met the rest of our party to find that we were the only ones in “fancy dress” and felt a bit of a pillock. I also felt a bit left out of it because all the women knew each other and I felt like a bit of an outsider, although they were all nice to me. Obviously I spent most of the night talking to men (as usual), but I’m not complaining.

Got to the marquee and suddenly I didn’t feel so much of a pillock because almost everyone had made an effort and were dressed in 1920’s clothes. When we got to our tables there were trilby’s for the men and headdresses with feathers for the ladies, and our party were soon quick to put them on.

I was quite worried about the meal as I didn’t want anyone to notice I wasn’t eating. My counsellor told me to do “add-a-meal” this week and just be careful. When the food came I needn’t have worried about not eating as there wasn’t a lot of it in the first place. Starter was “salmon terrine” which consisted of a tiny 1.5”by 1.5” piece of terrine, 1 prawn and a roll of smoked salmon. I mashed the terrine up a bit, ate my prawn and my husbands and gave him my salmon. Main course was turkey. I whispered to the gentleman serving that I only wanted veg. Unfortunately the veg was all mixed together and consisted of green beans, sprouts, parsnips and swede. As I can only eat green veg I ate 2 green beans and 1 sprout!! Didn’t like the stuffing in the turkey so ate a bit of turkey and picked the stuffing out of the middle. Dessert was a white chocolate torte. Ate two teeny bites and it was delicious. Told hubby I was going to the toilet and to finish mine while I was gone (he was very upset having to eat 2!!). So there you go, I managed to hardly eat and no-one noticed.

Got back to the hotel around 2am and everyone was hungry so the boss ordered chips, trays of toasted sandwiches and BLT’s and loads of drinks. I did eat 2 chips and had a couple of sips of wine, as I felt more conspicuous not eating in the full light of the hotel bar.

All in all we had a good night and that’s another couple of fears conquered
a – going out and b- meeting my husbands work colleagues.

I’m not counting Saturday as cheating even though I didn’t just stick to Cambridge. I’ve known about it for months and I planned everything out and think I did just fine and am very pleased with myself.