Monday Quickie...

This is just a really quick update of the weekend....

Sooooooooo..... I GOT MY WEDDING DRESS!!! Yay! I am so excited by this... I had been to a few bridal shops and tried on about 25 or more dresses, but on Saturday I found THE ONE. It was a moment of revelation, seriously! I was waiting for the moment all brides talk about when they say they found their perfect dress... personally I thought they were all nuts and talking nonsense, but really it does exist, that total moment of total clarity when you can see yourself walking up the aisle in THE wedding dress, and even better news was that I fit into the sample size (even though they are generally a size or two smaller than your normal dress size) which made me soooo happy too! The lady in the bridal shop was so good to us as well, she opened up an hour earlier than usual at 9am so we could come in.

The rest of Saturday was a bit of a blur of eating breakfast at the excellent Studio Cafe in Bangor - Poached Eggs and Boar Sausage with Granary Toast - I dared not eat before the fittings for fear of gaining any weight! Then shopping at the Bloomfield Shopping Center where I picked up a beautiful cake topper that will be gracing the top tier of my wedding cake. We also spent quite a long time in various other shops and looking around the stalls at the monthly Bloomfield Shopping Center Crafters Fair. My mum picked up a beautiful chunky solid wood heart for the bargain price of £8 - it was inscribed with 'love' and is oh so beautiful. I refrained for buying a box of cupcakes... too afraid that scoffing them would mean I wouldn't fit into my wedding dress! We did however have lunch in Hanna and Browne (I love the cafe in their) and it was delicious!

Saturday night was spent at our friends house - they have just moved into a new place and it is HUGE - they are expecting their little baba in July so the new place has plenty of space for him or her to run around and play!

To be honest I didn't keep track of what I ate this weekend at all - I know I had my naughty half portion Chinese takeaway and glass of wine on Friday night, but since we were out from 8.30am - 5pm on Saturday we ate out and although I picked relatively healthy choices I'm not 100% sure of my syn to free food ratio - and I had another half portion Chinese takeaway on Saturday night... naughty naughty!!

Sunday was spent visiting my nan and preparing a Slimming World roast chicken dinner and a huge pot of super-free veg soup. It was lovely. I had planned for a red day, so made up some Atkins diet mock mash, which is baked cauliflower mashed with cream cheese or cottage cheese - I opted for the healthy living cottage cheese with chives as it is super-free, and the more super-free the better for weight-loss and maintenance. It was actually a pretty good substitute for mashed potato and I will be making it again. I think I'll mash it up with some broccoli next time too!

I've got my order in with the Oh So Lean guys for collection in Dundonald tomorrow. I'm going for the curry sausages, pork and leek sausages, chicken ham and stuffing pie, chicken and leek pie and three pots of pepper sauce. Can't wait!