8th Oct 2019 – good food day, good exercise day!

Evening all, hope you are well.

Talk about achy! I was a bit worried I had no hamstrings, given I never felt the stretch I was supposed to be feeling… I’m relieved to say my body IS normal… since my cardio yesterday I can confirm my hamstrings have been stretched 🤣

Today has been a great day, my lovely workmates spoiled me rotten for my birthday (which is tomorrow, but I’m working from home tomorrow).

I did eat a couple, uh hum, SIX chocolates! But I countered some of the naughtiness by not having my banana or my egg. I’ve left the chocs at work, my boss is a chocolate monster, so I expect they’ll be almost gone by the time I get back.

I’ve bought a small choc cake and fruit juice to take into work on Thursday. Calorie wise, the cake portions are 279 calories, I shall substitute against healthy food. I know I’ll be missing out on the nutrients, but this is life.

I was shocked how hungry I was today, who would have thought not having 1 banana and 1 egg would make that much difference! I find this very interesting, obviously there’s something to be said for fibre and protein!

During the day I had 28g nuts, 160g fruit and my salad.

Went to mum’s tonight for our fortnightly girls night. My sister gave me a great funny birthday card from her and her husband, and a card from her daughters, which they had written themselves, so SWEEEEET!

Mum gave me a lovely card, a voucher for Yours, a new pair of jeans maybe? And a bottle of one of my fave perfumes, coco mademouselle! So spoilt!

Mum cooked up a nice dinner of pork, broccoli, carrots and spuds. I left quite a bit.

Paul’s made me some yoghurt with seeds and honey.

Fluids – 200ml milk, 3 cups tea, 1 glass of water, half a can of Pepsi max. I don’t seem to be able to get my water intake up, I shall try to make a more concerted effort tomorrow.

I haven’t had any fluid for the last hour, other than a mouthful for tablets. Hopefully this will help me get a decent nights sleep.

Exercise – I didn’t get up early enough to do my stretches (bad nights sleep), and I miss them. I’ve only been doing the stretches recently, and I neither know nor care if it’s psychological, but I’m convinced they do help with my flexibility.

I usually do a 7 min beginners cardio programme for a warm up when doing my strength programme, today I switched up to an 11 min moderate cardio for a warm up, and almost kept up 🤣. I followed this with my 15 minute strength programme.

In an ideal world I would have also done the next level strength programme, but I’m not sure if I could have physically done it, and I certainly didn’t have the time!

Nevertheless, that’s 26 minutes of exercise, 26 minutes more than I would have done a few months ago!

So that’s it from me for today.

Wishing you all a good night.