Weekend off

It's been a lovely weekend! We went to the races yesterday so I've been a little off plan with the alcohol and it was a set menu. I've been doing my usual Sunday cooking marathon to prep for next week. I'm not weighing in this week as it could be demotivating. 

I'm just relaxing in the bath now after a cup of cocoa (almond milk only ;) ) and looking forward to the week ahead. I think that's the first time in ages I've said anything like that! Especially as it's Monday tomorrow!! 

I have booked a holiday with the girls from uni. It will be great to catch up. It's just 4 days but I'm really looking forward to it. I also have extra motivation to not look like a beached whale by the pool!!!!! 

It's been a while since I posted so here are some pics of my week! I'm so impressed with my first yield from my garden - Chinese cabbage. And it was delish!!!!!! 

A little off topic

I'm all about feeling good at the moment. I'm feeling great with my diet and have been sticking to it. I have been a massive fruit monster so I definitely want to do some exercise tomorrow to counteract all the sugar!!!! 

I have been growing my nails but some have chipped so I have taken action and now they all look the same! :) 

I bought a kit from asda with all the bits you need for acrilyc nails. Like my friend Kirsty said, I'm always up for giving it a go. It's not particularly easy and it really stinks but I am impressed with the reaults. 

The kit is from asda at just under 10 pounds which is rather a bit cheaper than getting it at a salon. I can also make touch ups along the way! :) 

Prior planning

I've been feeling really poorly today so didn't think I would manage to make tea but I have come round a bit now and have spent a good hour cooking for the week. 

I made a roast dinner with greens for tea tonight and with the leftovers I have made a very green Thai green curry. Smells delish. I am working the next 2 evenings at work so need to have something filling to take with me. 

For night 2 and Roberts dinner tomorrow I have made a meat and potato stew. 

I have also prepped all out fruit so it's just easy to grab.

Admittedly I have slipped today. I have eaten sweeties but I felt so sorry for myself, I had no energy earlier and it did make me feel better :) Back on it tomorrow. Ultimately that food is going I be in my life so eating it every now and again shouldn't come with a huge pang of guilt! 

I did manage a walk this morning so feeling okay about exercise. I must try and get out to the gym tomorrow before work.... I always feel really good after the gym :) 

It's been a busy one!

Its been my first weekend off with Robbie for a while and we've been non stop. On Saturday we did loads of jobs then treated ourselves to tea at the magpie in Whitby. We were trying to eat somewhere healthy and that's the nearest place we could think of. We ate so much fish and we really controlled. No doughnuts!!! 

Yesterday we went for a 2.5 hour walk and had a giant BBQ of meat and salad which again was lovely. 

I weighed in yesterday and have lost 1 pound this week! One step in the right direction. I'm sure it could have been better if I didn't eat so much fish the night before but I can't be disheartened as I'm happy to stick with it until I'm down to target!!  

Hope everyone has had a lovely weekend too! :) 

Energy

I don't know where I'm getting all this energy! I feel really fainty at work when I'm not eating loads but I seem to be able to exercise without passing out. Today I cycled to work AND felt really energetic when I got home so did another 5k run! I'm just walking home now and cooling off. Funnily enough my run ended at the pub! But I was very good and had a water and a chatter to my mummy. One of her friends hugged me and told me I was stinky so I'll be straight in the bath when I get in! 

5k surprise

I have been at work today. I took yesterday's leftover spag Bol for lunch and plenty of homemade flapjacks which went down well! We have just sat down to a lovely dinner. I made homemade fajitas with homemade flatbread and homemade dips! It's homemade .... Just in case you weren't sure. I am going to take leftovers to work tomorrow. I am going to try cycling to keep up the exercise. 

Speaking of exercise, I went to the gym today. I was in a real mood to push myself. I ended up managing to run 5k when I haven't even run for over a year due to my bad back. As my back has been better lately it was okay. I'm in a bit of pain now but I've been told to power through pain as I can't do any more damage. At 1.5k I could have given in but I kept in my mind that my friends want to get together and do race for life which is 5k so I am going to train for that! The pain that I was going through can't have been near what cancer sufferers go through so I powered on through and really surprised myself!! 

I'm really tired tonight so I think I will be getting an early night. I'm going to have the Friday feeling tomorrow as I have 3 days in a row off! Yippeee!!! We are going to look at some wedding venues over the weekend. 

Im so good to him!

Todays post is inspired by my little dilemma for today. I am on a day off work and I am going to see my mummy for a walk later. I want to eat dinner with Robert later but he will get in about 5pm and be ravenous. I was thinking about a snack I could leave him.... Fruit is not enough and leftover stir fry is too much. I was having a browse through Ella's cookbook and found flapjack! Hurrah!  Ella had a condition which had her on multiple medicines but since changing her diet she is off all of them so I like the fact that what she puts in her recipes is very clean. 

I did not post yesterday but I managed to stay on track (minus 2 packs of monster munch 😳)!! I figured I can have them as long as I don't carry on eating that stuff. One of my meals was leftover fish and lentil curry with a homemade flatbread (see pic below). 

Upping the Ant-ee

So pleased with last weeks result. I'm managing to keep it up. Yesterday I did a lamb roast with loads of veggies. And today I had rye bread, a banana, rasberries and chicken for lunch. For tea we are having a fish and lentil curry :) mmmm. 

I've named the post upping the ant-ee because my weight loss won't continue without adding in some exercise. Tonight we have been for a 55minute bike ride and done a 10 minute weight circuits session in the conservatory! 

Shower time now and then dinner time! Yippee :) 

Weigh day

So today I have weighed in! Very happy I have lost the weight of a small baby!! I have lost 6 pounds! :) A nice boost to my weight loss. This coming week we are going to up our exercise so I would be hoping for 3 pounds next week! 

Last night we went to the cinema. We had tea before we went. When we got there I decided to treat myself to a large diet coke! Trying to avoid it because of the sweeteners in it but I know it's it no calories so wouldn't harm my weight loss . I also took some popcorn. I popped them in coconut oil and added a small amount of salt. They were lovely, the coconut came through mildly. Avengers is a great movie, I would definitely recommend it. :)

I need to motivate myself to cycle to work today!! 

Saturday Afternoon

I have been at work this morning. I could barely open my eyes when the alarm went off so I sacked off cycling to work. I might do it tomorrow because I don't start till 10am! Watch this space ---. I opted for the easy breakfast and lunch as I was tired and had a black coffee to wake me up. I did well for the rest of the shift just having peppermint tea. 

I am home now. I have just put a chicken in the oven and had a homemade chocolate spread on toast (cocoa, avocado, vanilla essence, sweetener). 

I tended my veg patch too. Deweeded and planted some chard and runner beans. In case anyone is interested I have listed what I am growing this year:

Lettuce

Spring onions

Carrots

Chinese cabbage

Broccoli

Tomatillo (lime flavoured tomato) 

Corn on the cob

Chives

Parsley

Blueberries

Strawberries

I also have a surprise seedling aswell. It's either butternut squash or courgette. We will see!! 💫 

Late night bake

I made some rye bread using a lidl bread mix. Like most of the healthy food I make I wasn't looking forward to it but it's delicious!! It's crispy and really flavoursome. I am going to try and take some sandwiches tomorrow for work! :) 

Friday Treat

Had a steak for tea. It was okay, bit chewy!! 

The star of the show was my rhubarb crumble! Mmmm just rhubarb with sweetener and then an oat topping. Very happy face and belly!!!  

Hello from the bath!!

I am managing to keep on track. Today I had a banana for breakfast and a homemade cookie. For lunch I had loads of chicken from the deli at work. It's a bit greasy but I can't cut everything out!!! I think it's okay. Better than a meal deal right? Especially because I would choose the American triple with crisps!! I also did well avoiding the biscuits at work. They had a Friday treat with some amazing looking cookies from Sainsburys bakery but I just stuck to my (now dry) homemade ones!!! :( 

So I'm in the bath now trying to wind down a bit. I've got the Friday feeling although it's almost like Monday again for me as I'm  working over the weekend till Tuesday next week. Maybe it's because the suns out and it's payday! 

We are going to treat ourselves tonight hopefully. Maybe take a bike ride and stop at lidl for a payday steak and then watch a film. I wanted to go to wether spoons and although I may make a good dinner choice and I could have a cheeky vodka and soda, after 3 or 4 vodka and sodas I would probably find myself ordering a huge pudding! I have no restraint after a drink so I will try and go without! :) I will have to give more of Ella's recipes a go to feed my chocolate craving! 

On my break!

So I'm on my break at work. It's really difficult to get out of the pharmacy sometimes because people expect a pharmacist there always and expect to buy what they want immediately. Staff can't sell anything or give out prescriptions when I'm not there so I've compromised from not really having a break to having 20 minutes in the consultation room with my din din's!! It's lovely, I should have been doing it all along. I can catch up on my emails and Facebook and texts so it doesn't build up too much by 10pm. 

Today I have had nice food. I had fruit in the morning, salmon and broccoli for lunch and homemade lamb moussaka for tea. For snacks I have had some of my homemade cookies and 2 more bowls of berries. I'm feeling full and energised. 

I think I will cycle to work tomorrow for a bit of exercise. I will try and remember to take a picture :) 

End of the day

Me and Robert are just settling down now after a nice long walk. Been discussing weddings!! 

Just about to watch gold rush.

I've just had some mixed fruit to finish off my evening. My tea was nice I had veggie chilli with chips, rice and chicken. Mmmm. 

Cookie Monster

I'm back from the gym and I'm hungry. I need something to tide me over till dinner. I've been looking in my Deliciously Ella book and found a recipe for cookies.

I have made baking blunders recently - failed protein pancakes followed by incredibly dry protein brownies so I wasn't looking forward to this latest healthy snack. I was wrong they are ao delicious so I want to share the recipe :) 

7 minute curry

So it was 11.07am and I needed to eat before leaving at 11.15am for acupuncture. I was going to the gym straight after so I NEEDED to eat. 

I knew I had chicken so I decided to be brave and attempt a speedy curry. I can't believe I pulled it off, recipe is below:

Fry roughly chopped onion in coconut oil.  Add dessicated coconut. Then I added my spices: paprika, cayenne pepper, cumin seed, ginger, an unknown substance but I think it was pilau rice seasoning and finally some korma spices pre made. To finish I added tomato purée , water and leftover roast chicken. 

It was surprisingly yummy. I'm sure it would be better if stewed for half an hour but it did it's job. 

I now have time on my hands waiting for my appointment. Feeling good today .... A much better day off than last week!! I'm motivated for the gym and have bought myself some blueberries for after. 

Hope everyone else is having a lovely day too!! :) 

Day 2

Today has been a good food day! It's always a bad general day because I work 9 hours till 10pm and come home achy and bedraggled!!!

So I started to today with overnight oats but I had one mouthful and binned it. I made the mistake of putting dried cranberries in and it was too sweet!!

I had salmon and prawns for lunch with some homemade chicken and turmeric soup then at work I had a punnet of grapes, a banana and chicken legs and wings. 

I had one cup of coffee today! And not enough water. Probably only about 1.5 litres. 

I did a quick cheeky weigh in and it seems to be working. I'm going to weigh in on a Sunday so I will keep you updated with progress :) 

Day 1

So today was a good day. I did a 9hour shift and I am tired. My back was painful but I resisted the pain killers and now I am home in my PJ's I'm okay!! I'm trying to eat and live clean so the less painkillers the better. So I had 2 coffees today. I am not sure how clean they are ..... Any thoughts?? 

For breakfast I had 'overnight oats' with fruit and yoghurt and milled linseed

I sipped iced green tea throughout the day. 

For lunch I had leftover chicken, quinoa, egg and cut up red pepper

I had 2 apples as a snack. I managed to resist my soggy banana! 

For tea I am having chicken, broccoli, quinoa, egg and a small amount of potato. It's all very bland so I am getting used to it. Normally I am a sUce queen and would douse my food in sauce!! 

As of 7.30pm I have managed about 2.5 litres of water 

I did well by resisting the Bourbon biscuits at work and the bake well tart I was offered. I was planning on going to the gym but it was getting late so I am planning to go tomorrow and I will take some pics to prove it ;) 

See pictures of my day below!