2nd Dec 2019 – Trying to stay healthy, but it’s hard!

Evening all, hope you are well.

Now we’re on the run up to Christmas I’m not going to get the chance to update this blog every evening. But I’ll try my hardest!

This evening Paul and I have been comparing price verses quality on some Christmas food, so now we know what Paul is ordering tomorrow, that’s turkey, gammon, pigs in blankets and pork pies sorted.

Given our love of cheese, we’re going to pick those from Sainsbury’s over the weekend. Most of the cheese we’ll want is waxed so getting it early will be no problem. Mustn’t forget the brie and a nice creamy blue closer to the time.

I’m not confident with cooking roast dinners – i do them so infrequently I never remember temperatures and timings, so I did a dry run yesterday, and that’s when I discovered we need a new oven! My parsnips and carrots were half way through cooking when I discovered the oven was off. We flipped the fuses, thought that might be ok, the lights flicked back on, only to discover the top oven works, but the main oven doesn’t get above 60 degrees…. I suppose it’s a good job I discovered this now, it means we can replace the oven before Christmas is upon us. What a time to happen though!

Luckily the meat was fine at this point in the warm oven, and the carrots, spuds and parsnips were chucked into the same tin to finish of actually cooking – not crispy, but hey ho – tasted lovely 🙂

Anyway, we had bread and butter for breakfast yesterday, it was a really nice fresh bread with salted butter. And then roast for dinner. We did also have some ice cream, but I justify that by letting you know that I now have room in my freezer 😀

There were lots of jobs in between all this, but afterwards, Paul made beer while Amy and I partook in a drink, a silly Christmas movie, and putting up my tree with my beautiful new fairy (angel) 🙂

And some great news! I have had FOUR solid nights sleep! For the last four nights, I’ve got up just once to nip to the loo, and that was between 5.30am and 6.30am! It’s amazing how much better a good nights sleep can make us feel.

Even better, we’ve broken the back of the bulk problems at work, so the continuous pressure should start easing now – so hopefully I can start making in-roads into catching up with all your posts 🙂

Anyway, let’s get on with some semblence of a report!

So, my exercise hasn’t started really this week, I have walked to Mum’s but because the ground is so slippy I asked Paul to pick me up. And also because it’s slippy, I didn’t really get up a good speed on my walk over.

A weird thing happened whilst I was on my way to mums, bearing in mind it’s dark, there was a bloke wandering around starting down paths to peoples’ houses, then walking away, very dodgy. But then as I got closer, he walked to yet another house and opened the door! He shut it quickly when a dog started barking.

I confronted the man, asked what he was doing, and then the person who lived at that house came to the door, obviously she’d heard the door open and was warned by her dog, she didn’t know who he was. The fella was foreign and I think he was just looking for a friend’s house, I don’t think he was up to mischief because he didn’t run away and didn’t become aggressive. But still, a bit weird. I checked the woman was ok for me to carry on, she was fine with this, apparently there was someone else in the house with her.

I thought afterwards that I really should learn to think before opening my gob, what if he was actually dodgy, what if he did become aggressive? But then I thought, what if that person had just walked into my mums! I would hope there was someone who would challenge.

Anyhow, no point thinking about it, it’s not something I think about it, mouth opens before brain engages in weird or uncomfortable situations.

And onto food?

Food was better than I expected – we had salad, but did not do eggs and were nearly out of nuts and fruit. So, today I had 28ish grams of nuts, 30ish grams of raisins and 1 banana and my Salad. Talking about the salads, Paul and I have decided we enjoy the prepared salads so much we’re going to save ourselves time and continue to buy them for our lunches. I don’t feel bad at all about this, we’re choosing healthy and I’m not having any dressing. So my lunches now have spinach, spring onion, beans, sweetcorn, pineapple, prawns and mozarella.

Tonight we had tuna with rice, peas and sweetcorn.

Fluid, I’m keeping up with my morning milk, 1 glass of water, 1 can of pepsi max, 5 cups of tea. I know this isn’t great, but for now I going to keep having nice hot cups of tea. I am making sure I have less than a level teaspoon of half spoon sugar, which is my main concern with having tea. If it wasn’t for the sugar, the tea would not be an issue counting towards my 1.2 litres per day.

So that’s me for now.

Wishing you a very good evening/day.