Not sure if this Dutch expression translates directly to English… but well, it sounds good so why not! And indeed “on my toothflesh” I have reached the end of the week. My mamma is quite loyal to following a diet for the last couple of weeks. A diet that runs from Monday to Friday and a “free-for-all” weekend. Last Monday I decided to join her for this week. Mainly to see how far I would get and if I could hold on for a whole week. And if the side-effect was loosing some weight, I couldn’t be to sad about that either! ;-)

The diet is quite simple. Keep it easy on the bread. Some bread replaced by crackers. Fruit. Lot’s of fruit. Lot’s of veggies in the evening and keeping it easy on the potato’s. And water. Of course. So nothing major, quite a simple “diet”.

Well, Monday was quite easy. Highly motivated and possibly still benefiting from the big dinner on Sunday evening I cruised through the day. Tuesday was already a struggle. The lack of food was getting to me. Less bread and more fruit and veggies didn’t seem to fill me up for a very long time… Wednesday was a nightmare… the lack of food was getting to me… seriously. The empty feeling combined with small headaches every now and they were just far from pleasant… My mamma pulled me through with the wise words: your body just needs to get used to it… Well, if that was the fact, it better get used to it fast, as this was fun for nobody… And it actually did. Thursday was quite ok. Or at least much easier then the day before. Plus the thought of the weekend getting closer helped a lot there as well. Even more when I negotiated sushi into the diet on Thursday evening! I had no clue if it could fit in the diet, but my mamma got convinced from terms as “healthy”, “not fat” and “just veggies and fresh fish”.

So today was sushi day. I never tried to make sushi myself. When I was working in Stockholm, I often went for sushi and always thought it should be quite easy to make it yourself… well… it’s not rocket science, but it takes time. Or let me rephrase: it takes me quite some time. Making the sticky rice went surprisingly well, but actually building the sushi pieces and roles was quite time consuming. Plus I am not a true hero yet in making nice and round roles… But either way, the result with some soy sauce and wasabi was lovely!

Lovely sushi!

So all in all I struggled through the week and barely made it, or made it “on the toothflesh” as we would say. Although after the sushi dinner from tonight it will be just cruising to the finish line! Or does the weekend officially start Friday afternoon? ;-)

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