Trainer Day

Tuesday is early start day. I have to be in the gym for 6:30. Mark is rarely on time but as it doesn't open until 6:30 I have to run upstairs to get rid of my bag and sort myself out. We usually run overtime and I do get my full hour.

Today I was weighed and my body fat measured. 103kgs and some horrendous body fat figure which is double the recommended levels for women. I've got some work to do to reduce that!

I have been hungry and tired today and have hoovered up the things I no longer want in my diet. So although my eating has not been as I would want I have rid myself of temptation. Onwards and downwards :)

It's my birthday today

I have had a lovely day today. I opened my lovely presents in bed with a cup of tea. Then we had breakfast and headed off for the beach at Perranporth.

Rod flew his kite while I paddled wearing my new purple wellies and we had a carvery lunch in the beach bar.

http://www.the-wateringhole.co.uk/






Another walk on the beach after lunch watching the rollers.




Rod found a length of washed up rope and made a heart out of it. He is such a softy :)





Tomorrow I start my real push to lose weight and get fit. I am doing well with my gym visits but I am tired and hungry. I think that the gym routine is the most important focus and I will work on cutting back on calories when my routine is more established.

Weekly sessions with Mark my PT are going well.

I am making some interesting meals and eating healthy food again. My body thanks me for it.

Here are pics of a few of the recent offerings.


Breakfast of chopped apple, grapes and natural yogurt with vanilla whey protein.











M&S Fuller Longer noodles with chicken and edamame - lovely range but too expensive for every day. I bought this on the £1 introductory offer.






Another breakfast - soda bread from the Farmers' Market with mixed berry jam and Sainsburys Be Good To Yourself Greek Yogurt.

If I buy the white soda bread it's like having a cream tea for breakfast :)




I have several recipes for tortillas that include cooked pasta instead of potatoes and I have wanted to make one for ages.

So I cooked too much fresh tagliatelle with a plan to make a tortilla the next night. This is it in the pan, cooking. Onions, red peppers, asparagus (also leftover from the previous night) and slices of quorn sausage that I browned before adding the veggies to soften before adding the pasta and egg mix.





And this is it cooked and served with a small mixed salad of leaves, tomatoes, cucumber and beetroot.

It was delicious.




What a long post - I need to update a couple of times a week at least but life is busy. New OU course starts for real this week and 4 or 5 gym trips a week alongside a full time job means I am a busy lady. Long may it continue.

I've been nagged!

I ask people to follow my blog and then I stop posting.

Being snowed in for 3 days was fun for 1 day. Then I got twitchy and wanted to go to the gym, to work, to the shops. Anywhere but stay at home.

We had some lovely meals using the slow cooker, gave food parcels to neighbours from my well stocked store cupboards and had some lovely walks in the fields. But it was still like being in a prison. Cars abandoned all over the place and the police asking us not to move our vehicles. Crazy situation.

Back into a good routine now of 4 days a week at the gym and healthy eating. Portion sizes are too big but that is being worked on too. My trainer is working with me on progressive workouts to keep me challenged. OU starts soon to exercise the brain cell. I am feeling happier than I have for a long long time.

I tried an M&S Fuller Longer meal for lunch today. It was delicious and healthy. But I wouldn't pay full price for it for a lunch :-( Photo to follow.

I have stopped gaining weight and started to lose. Long may it continue.

Thanks for the nag Pam x

Early Start

I was up at 5:45 and out of the house by 5 past 6. Very cold and icy start and I left as soon as the car had deiced. I slid around one bend but other than that I made it to the gym in one piece.

I had a good session with my trainer, Mark, and he said that he could tell my attitude had changed.

Determination stayed with me throughout the day and I ended up banking a hundred or so calories.

A good day but it is getting colder and colder and there is heavy snow forecast.

Back to Work :-(

Oh it was cold this morning. And the office hadn't been heated since 31st December.
We decamped to the local café and had caffé mocha and porridge with honey for breakfast and let the office warm up for an hour.

Lunch was leek, turnip and bacon soup that I made yesterday followed by a lemon curd yogurt.

Supper was bolognese sauce served with shredded cabbage rather than spaghetti as I am back on my healthy eating and trying to have a few carb free evening meals.

Still bitterly cold and I have a session with my trainer booked for 6:30 tomorrow morning. I just hope I can get the car off the drive and down the hill.

Snow!!

We had planned on meeting our friends at Stourhead for lunch and a walk but overnight snow put a stop to that. We haven't seen their 2 sons in 2 years now.

We cleaned the house, Rod put wooden shelves in the cabinet he bought so that I can use it as a book cupboard and clear the last of the pile on the window sill.

Rod cooked ham egg and beans for lunch and then he made a turkey curry for supper. I had a Snickers bar and I really ate it t get rid of it. I should have put it in the fridge and saved it for a day when I really fancied some chocolate.

The snow melted by mid afternoon but the temperature plummeted again and the world started to freeze over again.

Happy New Year

What a cold start to the year. Sis-in-law and her fiancé and their daughter popped in for a couple of hours on their home to Surrey from Cornwall.

We had boiled bacon, fried eggs and home made potato wedges for lunch. Followed by the boozy Christmas Pudding that Rod was given by his friend. I had Ginger Clementines. Not a bad start to the New Year although the icy weather meant no walk.

I have started this year 20lbs heavier than I started 2009. The only way is down.