20th Oct 2019 – well, food was ok on calories, YEEES exercised to the ground!

Evening all, hope your weekend was a good one, and that you are ready for the week ahead.

My day has been taken at a good pace. A nice lay-in following a great nights sleep – only up two times during the night – WOOHOO!!!!

We went to the shops for some salad bits and dinner (hmmmm, more on that in a moment!)

Paul has now gone to watch Amanda Palmer with my daughter (I think they both fancy her!) which leaves me a bit of time to actually do some things just for me, so I’ve prepped mine and Paul’s salads, boiled our eggs, tubbed it all up. Paul had already portioned out fruit and nuts. And the rest of my evening is dedicated to doing a couple of blog posts and relaxing with (probably another cup of tea) while reading through your posts 🙂

I’ve changed my salads, the following makes up 6 lunches and contains nearly 4 portions of fruit and veg, full daily portion of pulses, more than 1 portion of dairy and with a tablespoon of healthy dressing exactly 400 calories:

• 200g spinach
• 250g beetroot (not pickled)
• half cucumber
• 60 olives
• 120g peppers
• 2 x 400g five bean salad (drained weight 480g)
• 2 x 200g feta cheese

Now, when you read about my dinner, my excuse is that we did not have anything else to eat other than a cookie this morning! For those that follow me, you’ll know that I’m not interested in counting calories…. UNLESS… I’m not eating my healthy, nutritional choices. As is the case today!

Well, there’s only so much I can do to convince myself and you dear people that today was perfectly acceptable – it was NOT, not when I’m striving for nutrition – however, it was bloody lovely!!!!!

So, without further ado….

Breakfast – 1 cookie!

Dinner – belly pork, oven cooked sweet potatoes and steamed beans and tenderstem broccoli.

For my future reference, that hunk of meat there, about…. wait for it…. 800 calories!

Fluid – 2 cans of pepsi max – I KNOW, I KNOW!!!! 2 cups of tea and 500ml water.

Exercises – 20ish minute stretching exercises, 10minutes (I thought it was about 11 mins) of moderate cardio, 15min strength exercises – YES – there is a bit of my day I am proud off 😀

So, that’s me, not over the recommended 1500 cal intake if dieting, but missing out on all that lovely dairy…. At least I’ve had plenty of protein 😀

Good night dear people, speak soon.