Today Ellen and I are off on holiday for five days to Amsterdam, and after careful consideration (by which I mean one quick conversation where we were in total agreement) we have decided to suspend the diet for the duration.  Not completely, we are going to try and remain sensible, not piling in and out of cake shops, but we’re not going to calorie count or focus on it too much.  Of course we will be indulging in large amounts of beer (I’m especially happy about this, I haven’t actually had a beer this year) and um, other ‘intoxicants’ the latter of which have a tendency to make you want to eat lots of food, so we’ll have to see how that goes.

The rules of this suspension are simple; it lasts from the moment that we take off from Leeds Bradford, until the time that we land there again on Friday.  As long as we are in the UK we are still on a diet.  So this morning we have made our lunches with the same low calorie focus we would do any other day.  Of course the chances are that when we come back we will find that we’ve undone some of the good work that we have done over th last month or so, but it’s our holiday, and I have no intention of spending all that money  to go somewhere and spend the whole time thinking I can’t do this or that, in case it is high calorie.  Of course this also means no updates for a week, but I promise tales of gluttony on our return.