Wow, today was hard work.
The kids were on one all day. We went to the park but it was freezing, so we went to soft play but it was closed so we bought loads of snacks and went home to watch the never ending Peter Rabbit film. Again.
That was a challenge! Pringles, Pom Bears, Magic Stars, chocolate, Skittles… There they were one on either side of me, munching away! I made do with an apple (which doesn’t count as snacking because: fruit) and a cup of tea.
Naturally the little buggers wouldn’t eat their tea after that but Peter was demanding snacks at half 7!
I feel very strong by eschewing all those nibbly sweet things earlier and am very much looking forward to my pudding later. I’ve also lost about 3lb since I started doing this (roughly; my scales aren’t great), which was a hoped-for side effect.
Naturally, the theme for this morning’s sermon was the temptations of Jesus, and I thought a bit more today, as I found it quite tough, about the things he was asked to do. Turning stones into bread sounds like an easy thing to refuse, because it’s utterly impossible. But if I had the power to do something like that, and I was starving in the desert, then I can see why I might give it a go. I’m not starving by any stretch of the imagination, but I am finding myself hungry between meals, and I am a little shocked at how often I find myself reaching for the biscuits. How much harder it must have been to know that I could have all the biscuits in the world with a click of my fingers, only to know that I mustn’t.
I’m infinitely glad I don’t have that power by the way – can you imagine the size of my arse after all those biscuits! 🍑 #inappropriate
I stayed strong, I’ve had two lots of tomato pasta from the vat I made yesterday, and I am allowing myself some ice cream later as pudding – not a snack!
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