Positive vibes

Each week is becoming easier and easier to deal with. I taught Marilie this classic game and she absolutely loved it. We've made a whole monster family for Halloween! 

I managed to whip up these beauties for Mel’s ‘food friday’ (I don't know how because I had virtually no time) and they were apparently delicious. She didn't come back with any, so that's usually a good sign...

So, I managed about a week of healthy eating. It's not so hard to eat well in the week, but when the weekend brings a food festival and a market how can I stay on the wagon? 

I spent the entire weekend with beautiful people visiting semi-new places and eating our way through the country. 

On Saturday, I went to Kevin's birthday party at SB Sport. Basically, I watched a twelve sweaty kids playing football for about two hours. It was strangely enjoyable feeling somewhat part of a family. One of the mums bought me a tea within five minutes of meeting me, so she's definitely in the good books! 

After the party, I headed straight to Gourmandiv, which was a food festival hosted in Divonne. For €5, you could go and try food from any participating place. We managed to spend the afternoon stuffing our faces with cheese, chocolate, champagne and other delicacies. 

In the evening, five of us girls went to Marta’s for pizza and an interview (thanks Hana!) It's so interesting to learn about why people are here, what they were doing before and what their plans are afterwards. 

We come from such vastly different walks of life, that I feel as though I'm learning so much about myself as a person, as well as others. I'm definitely going to come back from France as a changed woman (for the better I hope)

Sunday always brings my little tutoring job. Now that it's becoming more structured, poor little David likes the idea of me less and less. Hopefully, I can make these subjects interesting because I really value the extra €15 per week.

As always, I headed straight to the market for food! First things first, crêpe. I foolishly chose salted caramel as my topping and was bitterly disappointed. It definitely wasn't as good as it sounds. Then, I returned to my beloved taco lady for a huge chicken taco, which was evidently made with love. We had macarons AND churros, which was definitely not good for the diet! 

After the market, we tootled along to Lausanne for the afternoon, where I got told off for eating the churros outside a pub, whoops. We wandered around, trying to get to the lake. The adventure was not so bad on the way, because it was all downhill. On the way back however, I thought I was going to die. When the only food you've really had all day is sugar-based, you crash catastrophically at the most inconvenient time. Unfortunately, I really started to feel death approaching whilst ascending up a nearly vertical hill. Wonderful. My only salvation was the bright lights of Burger King. Due to feeling like all of my insides were going to cascade down my leg, I chose the veggie option and boy, I was not disappointed! Definitely going to have that again…
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Obviously, these busy weekend plans brought a hefty step count. I'm just proud I didn't get any sort of blister or sore. 
Score
Sara: 1 
Inner obese Sara:0

This week has brought the gang closer together, without any sort of negativity. It's refreshing to feel so entirely good for once. Nobody's time is coming to an end anytime soon, I'm becoming increasingly happy in the family and I'm popping home soon for a short weekend. Life's getting damn good and I can't wait for what the coming weeks have to offer.