Mackerel

Had a nice long lay in today. Got up about 10:30 when the dogs were going mad at the door as my friend Rob had popped round. Mary was already up. 11:00am poached egg with a black coffee with sugar. About 2pm we had lunch and this was fish with salad and tomatoes. I had the proper Marines diet sent to me and it says that you can have vinegar on you meals, so I thought that would be nice on the salad. The Sarsons vinegar bottles always had a stopper on the inside so you could shake the vinegar over your food. In my haste and keenness I didn't notice that they had moved in into the lid that I had unscrewed and put to one side. I went on to drown my dinner in vinegar. Thankfully I could hold my food and pour it off. We had mackerel for the fish instead of tuna and this was really nice. I prefer tuna mixed with mayonnaise, but mackerel is fine straight out of the tin. Dinner at 8pm was lamb chops with spinach salad and tomatoes. I had some lemon cordial with this. I had a couple of small glasses of lemon cordial through the day as it was hot today and I needed a drink. After gaining a pound yesterday I didn't want to have too much to drink today. Every time I have gained weight I knew exactly why. I think the knack is to stop yourself before you do it. We had a fight on the Wii sports boxing, then our weigh in. I was well pleased today as I had lost 3 pounds and Mary had lost two too. This was a great result as this is the day with the most food and was feeling a bit down after gaining a pound yesterday. Well chuffed today. I obviously need to watch how much I drink.