I have been thinking of cutting out my precious, much loved wine for a while. All the meals DH and I make are really healthy and low in fat anyway, (it's not an effort, just what we enjoy) so I think the one thing holding me back with my weightloss is wine. (Empty calories ahoy!)

During the day, in the week, when DD2.5 and I are alone at home, I have not been eating carbs. A regular day for me has been:

Breakfast: 2 egg omelette with mushrooms
Lunch: ham or chicken with salad
Dinner: whatever we decide to have, (always homemade) which is normally something like spaghetti bolognaise/chicken fried rice/fish pie or anything that we can make without adding too much oil/butter with cooking.

Again, as I said, not a special effort to eat low fat, it's just the meals we enjoy. I'm glad I don't have to make huge changes/an effort to eat healthy lol! (it does however make me kind of confused as to why I'm not losing weight quicker)

I've been trying to cut out carbs during the week day as I know that's when DH isn't home, and I know he likes a full meal. I'll join him in carbs (pasta/rice/potatoes) in our evening meal, which  I *know* is not the right time of day to be eating carbs! But that's just how it works out for us.

Anyway, back to the wine. We *never* have high fat food unless it's a special occasion and DH and I eat out in a restaurant, (that happens maybe every 3 or 4 months) so I think wine is my one setback. 

That and actually having the f****ing energy to *actually exercise* my insomnia has kicked up a notch in the last few months and I've felt like a total zombie with only about 2/3 hours sleep if I'm lucky.

Anyway.. Like I was saying, DH and I have somehow got into the habit recently of having a few glasses of wine with our evening meal during the week, not really sure how that happened but there it is :/

So I told DH what my thoughts were. He said he'd have no problem with no wine during the week, and agreed it was kind of unusual that we'd gotten into the habit of drinking during the week lately, but that he really enjoyed having something to drink at weekends. 

At the weekends, we like hanging out in our lovely garden. It's one of our favourite things. The kids play, we all love it. Even if it does mean extra effort reminding SS what we should and should not do. (sigh)

So DHs response was "Sunshine and wine go so beautifully together that it seems a shame to cut it out completely, could we just stick to 'weekend wine' while I'm off work?"

I said "That's FINE with me!!!" And we both laughed as we know it's because that's when SS is here. Don't get me wrong, DH loves him a lot, but SS is actually driving us both NUTS right now with his not listening thing, it's gotten so much worse lately DH and I have *always* spoken quite openly about our feelings, and he knows SS is driving me as much as he is DH right now.

DH is actually the one who asked me to post my last blog asking for advice from you guys, he loves you all as much as I do. ST literally saved our relationship a few years back. So, Thankyou, Thankyou, Thankyou for your comments/thoughts, and please, if you have the time to suggest anything else, check out my last blog x (pretty please lol) x

I hope everyone else is doing good! (((Hugs))) and Thankyou all again for being so awesome, both DH and I love you x