55.3 kg, this is my current body weight, in spite of treating the diet rather as a guidance rather than following actual recipes. One thing works for sure- eating a lot less that I used to. I’ve been doing that, but still have not opened my packet of wholewheat pasta or brown rice. Normal pasta, but less, white rice, not the messy brown one.

Dinner suggestion for this evening was wholewheat pasta with tomato sauce. Great, I have no problem at all with a good tomato sauce provided it is actually A GOOD tomato sauce. I’ve been to Polish deli this morning, popped next door to the oriental store to get some gyoza wrappers( making those next week!!), some mooli and I’ve also bought a nice vine of big, red, good looking tomatoes. Started my sauce this evening by slowly frying a finely chopped shallot on olive oil, after about 2 minutes I added 2 minced garlic cloves and a small tsp of chili flakes. Onto that 3 of those big tomatoes, skinned and roughly chopped, plus a few cherry ones. A small carton of Italian passata, for the colour and texture. A small knob of butter. Diet or not, butter makes everything taste better. Seasoning. The sauce reduced slowly for about 40 minutes, finished with a handful of chopped basil. Served with spaghetti and freshly grated parmesan. Simple and satisfying. Pretty sure I had more than 70 g of pasta!

In 64 days we will be back in food heaven, in Tuscany, all is booked. We’re going back to Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, to the same villa we rented last summer. I’m pretty sure the tomatoes in Italy at the end of July will be like candy, I can’t wait to be making this again. There. With local produce.