Curry and pizza setback – but I’m still in the running

TALK about falling off the wagon . . . I was elbows deep in naan bread and curry at the weekend!
Shedding 10lbs in my first three weeks clearly went straight to my head. On Friday night I kicked back with a rewarding home-made chicken balti.
The ingredients were practically all on my diet list – chicken breast, vegetables, rice – but I think the old stir-in sauce was a definite no-no.
And if that wasn't bad enough, after a crazily busy day on Saturday, I really let my guard down and polished off a sweet chilli chicken pizza!
What can I say? I just had to get my cheese fix before the cold turkey killed me.
It was only a frozen one I found nestling under a bag of veg in the bottom of the freezer, but still it can't have been good for my weight loss programme.
Needless to say, I felt rather bloated by the time the birds started singing on Sunday morning – but I still managed to tackle the biggest run of my life so far when I sailed through a surprisingly comfortable nine-miler.
The time, 90 minutes, was hardly electric but I felt strong to the end and didn't even have to take a planned water break at a shop along the way.
Running nine miles is something I never even imagined before I started this challenge.
I mean, seriously, why would you?
But I think I am slowly getting the jogging bug and it really helps clear the head from the stresses of daily life.
I was putting the world to rights on Sunday while I was plodding past the Garden Festival site.
It's just a shame that I didn't have a pen at hand or there may well have been a sequel to War and Peace in the pipeline.