Blessed by the people I work with.... I just wanted to shar

I just wanted to share with you all something that happened at work today...

Firstly I should explain the back ground, I am a Clinical manager in a small Mental Health Hospital, and have a fantastic team that work for me. It is a tough stressful job and we all look after each other although often I feel spoilt, coffee always on my desk in the morning, chef bringing my lunch to my office if I get too busy and forget to go down for it etc....

Having been doing this diet for a week and avoiding all the lovely rich food which always comes in gigantic portions at lunch and ordering a plain tuna sandwich instead. I decided to tell some of my team what I am doing in terms of my current diet (partially to stop them buying me chocolate) and because I know they will be supportive.

Well lunch time came and there was a knock on my door and there stood our wonderful chef with a tray of food. On today’s menu had been cottage pie and baked beans my favourite and I had had a really hard time not ordering it. She gave me the tray and on the plate was a dainty portion of cottage pie and a huge pile of freshly steamed vegetables she had also added a banana to the tray - I almost cried.......

Later my support services manager came to my office sat down and explained that she had been thinking about our conversation earlier and about my new attempts to get healthy. She had decided that I work too hard and almost never take a break at lunchtime (I have to add that she is just as bad) so from next week she has decided that we are both taking a lunch break at least twice a week and are going to go for a walk in the local park, she added that when we get fitter we may even make it a lunchtime jog.... I was so touched by her support that I almost cried again.....

Today I feel so blessed and luck to have such great people around me – I know I can do this......I know we can do this....