14th March – great on exercise and day food, a revisit to past food nemesis!

Hey all, hope you are well.

Today has been a great day, and I include the evening meal in that!

My sleep was great! I only got up three times last night… YAY!

I was lying on bed, all snuggely, but I made the choice to get up and do my strength training. I promised myself three strength sessions this week, and I kept it!

We had healthier sausages in a small brown roll for breakfast.  I used spread, not butter.  And had just a bit of bbq sauce.

Then later in the morning I visited with my friend and convinced her to come for a walk with me, suggesting, sneakily, that I needed motivation. She obliged and enjoyed the walk 😁

The walk was the one I do with the hill, I no longer call it “the bitch”, instead it is a great cardio workout, and a fab measure of my increasing fitness.  I got up it three times today.  My friend didn’t fancy a 4th go, and I was happy to oblige!

Paul and I then went to weigh, and just in case you haven’t seen previous post… 2lb off!  So that’s 6lb in 4 weeks, perfect!  I’m aiming for an average of 1.5lb per week.

We had approx 60g dried fruit and 40g natural nuts as a snack in the afternoon, nice and healthy 😊

I did housework this afternoon, not a deep clean, but a surface clean.

Then we watched an interesting science programme with Alice Roberts. She had been tasked with creating the perfect human, imagining bits where our bodies have shortfalls, how to improve it by looking at the rest if the animal kingdom. It was a fab programme, but I hope we never look like the outcome!

Then we went to get dinner. Here’s the background… ready?

Every Friday night Paul and I would “treat” ourselves to a mixed meat and chips.  Don’t get me wrong, the week would see other take aways too, KFC, pizza hut, chippy, but kebab is Paul’s favourite. 

Knowing how much Paul misses kebab, my valentine’s gift to him was kebab, the same type of kebab he’s always bought, from the same take away he had been using since before we met.

I delayed the kebab giving us a chance to fully incorporate ourselves back into our healthy regime, given the abysmal couple of months from mid December. I was going to give the kebab after we had both lost a certain amount of weight, but it didn’t seem right rewarding healthy achievements with very unhealthy food. Hence the month.

So, are you ready to meet our old Friday night meal?

Here’s a Friday night meal now…

And HERE it is, the delish nemesis….  ladies and gentlemen, the Kebab!

OMG what a difference!

I’m going to be honest with you guys, the kebab was amazing! The soggy chippy chips in the bottom were amazing! I left about a quarter of it. And I don’t regret the kebab at all!

However….  it’ll be a very long time before I have it again 😁

Besides, my stomach has started to churn… poetic justice?

So that’s my day.  I’m enjoying a couple of glasses of Merlyn tonight and some tv. And hopefully a good night’s sleep!

Night all