Sea Bass

And to follow the pea and ham soup, some sea bass, with boiled new potatoes, asparagus and sugar snap peas.

It was lovely!

Company for Dinner

My niece came for diiner tonight, before we went to a comedy gig. She's also watching her weight, so low cal all the way tonight.

This is homemade pea and mint soup, with some crispy pancetta on top (which is where all the calories are!)

I made it with shallots, sweated off with 1/2 Tbsp olive oil, then added a veg stock pot cube, some fresh peas and some boiling water - then cooking it until the peas were done. I added a big handful of chopped mint and blitzed with a stick blender until smooth.

In the meantime, I crisped the panchetta between two baking sheets (to keep it flat) in a hot oven for about 7 mins. You could skip the pancetta if you want to reduce the calories even more.

How the other half live

Of course what I really fancied was the cheese and onion pie, with potatoes and cheese and chive sauce...

Although to be honest, I'm not sure I could actually eat that these days - but it looked popular - that hand sneaking in ended up with a fork in the back of it! "Touch my food, Feel my fork".

Tuna

And trying to stay on the healthy options, I then went with seared tuna, with sides of green beans and ratatouille. Eschewing the carbs drops the calorie count quite a lot - and with this much protein, lunch is quite filling anyway.

It was all delicious, and I'd had pleasantly enough by the time I'd finished...

Asparagus and Egg

We celebrated our photoshoot with lunch at Albert's (where else!). This was my starter, baked agg with asparagus.

I tried not to have too much of the hollandaise sauce, although it was lovely!

I'm so glad asparagus season is here, I love it! If you read this blog regularly, you'll probably see many pictures of those delicate green spears before the end of June.

Where have I gone?

Can you tell I'm still baffled by where I've gone?

I did my "big trousers" trick again today, getting sis in there with me (pics to follow). I still cannot get over the fact I used to be that big - and although I say I don't know how I got there, I do really - just eating too much and exercising too little.

Putting on these trousers reminds me just how far I've come, and makes me very determined to stay here. I'm so glad I kept them.

Getting ready for my close up

Here I am, putting in my earrings just before the Daily Mail photo shoot. Big sis and I decided to co-ordinate outfits, and so we were both wearing our bright red dresses.

Co-incidentally, we also both painted our nails red, and wore bright red lippy - just as well we have different colour hair or we'd look like twins!