31st July 2019 – food diary – day 2

Weight: 16 stone 7.2 lb

Exercise: 2 x 10 minute beginner step

Food and drink:

• 7.30am – cup of tea
• 9.15am – nuts, Brazil, walnut and pine
• 9.30am – water
• 11.15am – 2 hard boiled eggs
• 12.10pm – water
• 1.00pm – salad – 20g rocket, 35ishg spinach, 10 olives, third pack feta, third tin 5 bean salad (drained and rinsed), 80g tomatoes, 1 tbsp honey and mustard dressing (light).  
• 1.00pm – water
• 2.00pm – water

I used to hate salad – it used to be iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, celerly and cucumber, and that used to be it, all chopped up then stuck into a container in the bottom of the fridge. It was my holiday to Greece that started to turn my way of thinking around, and this last trip to Greece that cemented my way of thinking!

I literally can not tell you how much I enjoy my salads now, I don’t vary them, as I just love the taste and textures – and I hasten to add my lunch time salads are not Greek salads, but more inspired by. Greek salads are even more lovely, I just worry about raw onion at work 🙂

Anyway, why would I change what I love – apart from taste and texture, the pulses (five bean salad) are a good source of protein, fibre and iron. Add the five bean salad to all the other ingredients and I have a big scrumptious bowl containing just under 400 calories (i know, i know – no calorie counting – curiosity got the better of me) and 3 of my 5 fruit and veg portions for the day.

I also make enough for 3 days worth of salad at a time, true the leaves have wilted a bit by day 3, but still tastes fab, and means I don’t get my usual attitude – “oh I can’t be bothered doing lunch, one day at the sarnie van won’t hurt!” In all honesty, the occasional sarnie van meal won’t do anybody any harm, but with my lack of discipline I just know I wouldn’t make salad that evening either, so then the following day would have to be a van trip, yet again! Ridiculous really as the salad only takes 5 or 10 minutes to do!

Exercise – shockingly, I found the exercises easier today than before – not bad considering I haven’t done them in over a week – I guess it’s not that I’m fitter, more that I’m beginning to remember the moves – I can actually keep up with the instructor on almost all of the exercises now, and I don’t forget to ‘take my arms with me’ . I’m even getting better at keeping my body straight. Or maybe it’s just that I’m working from home today so am doing the exercises at a lunchish time rather than an evening time, whatever, i’ll take the improvement as a credit to myself 🙂

Needed to update this post as I have just come back from a walk, not very fast though I feel we ran! We walked for an hour and managed 2.8 miles. I think I’m going to ache like crazy tomorrow 🤣

As for dinner, thought I had chicken in the freezer, I don’t, so we had pork again, which I strangely have loads of! Had it with cauliflower cheese and potatoes chucked in the oven. I was not impressed with how the plate looked, so decided not to scare anyone with a photo! Tasted good though 😋