I need to go on You Are What You Eat

I was disgusting yesterday. I had a hangover and needed to eat my way through it.

This is what I think I had. I maybe wrong. It was a surreal day all round really. And I couldn't sleep because of the toxins last night and only managed to get to sleep at 4am and then I had a dream about American presidential elections which was quite scary and today that means I have to drink cofee. I don't normally drink coffee and it's sent me slightly manic. Can you tell?

Muffin with mushroom pate
Yoghurt
Steak and kidney pie and chips
Nectarine
Muffin with mushroom pate
A piece of cheese
2 massive chicken kievs with a huge tub of mashed potato
The rest of the chocolate mousse

I am ashamed and massive. And today ain't gonna be any good either. I haven't brought any lunch with me, I've already had 2 breakfasts and I'm gonna be in the pub at 3.30. I'll have to have a positively saintly weekend if I'm not going to put on 5lb by Monday.

Phew, it's Friday

I ate out and managed to go for the healthy option - yay! Then I had ice cream at the cinema - boo! But I bought two size 12 skirts in the sale and they are quite loose on the waist - double yay!

Porridge with almonds, honey, sunflower and pumpkin seeds
Veg chilli and brown rice
Vanilla yoghurt
Bruschetta
Pasta with pesto and roasted veg
Small tub of ice cream (cinema treat)

Must have a good weekend, which means avoiding evil wedding buffet food and big B&B breakfast. It's supposed to be sunny, so that usually suppresses my appetite anyway. Have lovely weekends everyone!

Not too bad considering...

Went round to a neighbour's house for dinner last night, so it wasn't all good, but I was quite controlled.

2 granary toast and jam
Jacket potato with feta, bean and tomato salad
Yoghurt with sunflower and pumpkin seeds
Vegetable tart with salad and one slice of garlic bread (v controlled!)
Apple and raspberry crumble (no ice cream!)
3 glasses wine

Also, did half an hour swimming and the usual walking. I think my legs are starting to look toned - yay! Still have a touch of the corned beef about them though (it's my ginger gene).

 

Yargle

Yes, I nicked Vicks' word. Hangover tastic with lack of sleep thrown in for good measure.

Strawb and blube smoothie
Piece of toast with butter
Banana
Hummous and bean salad
Nectarine
Peach
Half a packet of crisps (bought the low fat baked crisps from M&S. They ming. Don't bother)
Emmenthal and pumpkin seed cracker
Lots of pistachio nuts
Thai Green Chicken Curry and rice
Popadum
Chocolate mousse (large portion but home made with no sugar in it, just organic choc and eggs)
2 cans Stella
Glass red wine
2 pints Stella

So a bad day all round. Had a very nice evening though.

Oops a daisy.

A very goaty day

Porridge with blubes, pecans, sunflower seeds, yog and soya milk]
Green tea x3
Banana
Nectarine
Goats cheese salad
Emmenthal and pumpkin seed cracker
half a cheese sandwich
Goat curry and brown rice.

Goat curry was yum, but fairly calorific I'm afraid.

Pretend it never happened

Started well:

Mashed avocado and marmite on toast
Veg chilli and brown rice
Jamaican 'rice and peas' with roasted veg

Then it all went wrong:

2 glasses red wine
Little chocolate tart

Come to think of it the 'rice and peas' was full of coconut milk, so not exactly healthy either.

However, I weighed today and I'm only 11st 2lb (4lbs less than last weigh-in). So yay!

Today is the start of the 'shape-up Dave and Emma' plan, so my house will be temptation-free from now on. And we will be one of those annoyingly healthy couples who are glowing with health and energy. Maybe.

Cake attack

I was craving cake all day long yesterday. And after resisting doughnuts at work, I was beaten by some home-made banana bread. But only a little bit.

2 granary toast and jam
Salad: mixed beans, feta, tomatoes, olives, artichokes
Quorn chilli and brown rice
Teeny sliver of banana bread (eek!)

Also went for a 30-minute early AM swim and did my walking too.

 

Morning All

Not a terrible day, but got panicky at home cos I was starving and needed to snack before dinner. Martin says I must have had a past life as a Pavlov dog or something because once it gets to 6pm I HAVE TO HAVE MY DINNER. And living the life we do, we quite often don't have dinner until 7 or even 8, which gets me into a blind panic. Bizarre or what. Anyway.

Strawb and blackcurrent smoothie
Banana
Plum
Hummous and bean salad
Nectarine
Green tea x3
3 emmenthal and pumpkin seed crackers (snack attack), one with goats cheese on
Slice of ham
Crab chowder (nice and low fat)

And went to the gym at lunchtime.

Weekends, eh?

I couldn't really tell you what I ate this weekend, apart from pizza, bread, cake, more bread, cheese and all other really bad things.

However, my goals this week are to go to the gym 3 times, to have good food every day, to eat more than 5 pieces of fruit and veg every day and to drink lots of water.

Feeling down about it all

I'm really pissed of with myself. Had a fantastic week, then did the usual scoff-fest on the weekend and undid all the good work. Grrrrr. Why can't I control myself for those extra two days?

Still, managed to stick to most of my goals during the week.

*Walk to the station and back daily
Did it 9 times out of 10. The day I didn't do it, it was late and I was hungry and at the wrong side of town, so I got the bus.

*Do exercise at least three times
Yes, three lots of swimming.

*Bring lunch to work every day
Yes! Despite not going shopping, managed to find vaguely healthy things to bring in

*Stick to Weight Watchers plan for one week
Er....

This week might be tricky. Going to friends houses for meals Tuesday and Wednesday, have a wedding on Saturday, and going to Brighton on Sunday.

This week's goals:
* Walk to station and back daily
*Exercise four times
*Make healthy choices when eating out

I think I needed chocolate

2 pieces toast with quark and jam
Banana
Sweet potato stew and salad
Cherries
Small tub of Ben and Jerries chocolate fudge brownie ice cream (cinema treat)
Salmon, noodles, beans, pak choi, tomato
Mug of hot chocolate

The bugger is that I can't exercise at the moment! I have a blister the size of Wales on the sole of my foot from my orthotics. It happened in the gym on Wednesday and I can't run or anything. I'll have to do some yoga or something this weekend.

Not a bad day apart from the chocolate attacks. Nice though!

Early bird

Yesterday I got up at 6.30am to go swimming before work. I felt great afterwards, but by 10am I was ready to go back to bed. And, in fact, I was in bed by 9.30pm last night. Not sure this morning exercise is really my thing.

2 crumpets with all-fruit cherry jam
2 more crumpets with marmite (can you tell I haven't been shopping?)
Bio yoghurt with sunflower seeds
Apple
Small bar of Green and Blacks Maya Gold (cinema treat)
Noodles with vegetables

Plus swimming and walking.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend!

Not doing as well as Emma

But a bit better yesterday.

Went to the gym and worked really hard. Was SO horrid and purple and sweaty. I felt grim by the end of it.

Strawb, black and red currant smoothie
Piece of toast with butter
Moussaka and salad
Buffet shenanegins - 1/4 prawn sandwich, mini sausage roll, 1/4 tuna sandwich
Sweet potato stew with wild black rice
Piece of bread
Green tea x3

Way-to-go Wednesday

Another good day - I can't believe it! I fell much better already - less bloated and more energetic.

Porridge with sunflower and pumpkin seeds, dried apricots and honey
Salad: roasted peppers, rocket, tomatoes, falafel
Apple
Orange
Lemon and rosemary risotto with side salad

Plus 25 minutes swimming, 3 miles walking.

Now all I have to do is keep it up on the weekend, which of course is much harder than it sounds. I'm off to visit Laura and ice cream and wine have already been mentioned. By the way, she is working up in the Lakes this week, hence the lack of blog.

 

Bloody buffet

Well, I resisted the buffet, but now the remains of it - including some big huge chunks of apple pie - are sitting in our office, just metres away from my desk. Bah!

I'm a big diet swot

Another good day - I can't believe it!

2 granary toast with all-fruit jam
2 apples
Salad: Rocket, tomato, olives, pumpkin seeds and falafel
Vegetable curry
Glass of red wine

Plus 3 miles walking.

We have a lunch meeting at work today with an evil buffet - must resist!

I can't do this!

I don't appear to be very good at keeping the promises I made on Monday.

Porridge with blubes, pecans, sunflower seeds, yog and soya milk
Green tea x3
Hummous and olive salad withnew potatoes
Square crisps
banana
pckt count on us pretzels
piece toast with hummous
home made 'good' moussaka
2 glasses of wine (well, I was cooking with it!)

So, too much food and booze again and not enough exercise.

Am not going to shift this half a stone in 3 weeks.

Angelic

For the first time in weeks, I had a 100% good day.
 
Porridge with sunflower seeds, dried apricots and honey
2 crumpets with marmite
Mango smoothie
Apple
Bio yoghurt
Pasta with watercress pesto and griddled peppers
 
Did three miles of walking too.
 
 

Not bad, but not on track

Went for a half hour run before work - v good
Strawb and blube smoothie - v good
Piece toast and butter - not bad
Small piece of goats cheese quiche - bad
2 new potatoes - good
Salad with hoummous and olives - v good
Cherries - v good
Pint of lager - v bad
Packet of cheese n onion crisps - v bad
Spinach and feta pasta - good

Now, I know I broke the no alocohol commandment but I was at the cricket and starving and people were coming round selling pies, pasties and hot dogs and I didn't have one. There were also beer snails who came round with a barrel of lager on their back and topped you up with a hose. And I only had one pint. I think I did jolly well, considering!

Well done Sez again! That's brilliant. You must be very relieved.

Little steps

My weight is creeping up little by little, and if I'm not careful, all my good work will be undone. I find it easier to take things one week at a time, so here are my little goals for this week.
 
Same as last week:
*Walk to the station and back daily
Did it 10 times out of 10! A grand total of 15 miles.

*Do exercise at least three times
Yes, three lots of swimming.

*Bring lunch to work every day
Didn't happen, hence lots of jacket potatoes with beans and cheese, plus evil veggie burger and chips.
 
PLUS
*Stick to Weight Watchers plan for one week
Perhaps this is the only way to control the weekend lardfests and vino on school nights?

I'm on a mission

I have to lose 6.6lb by August 7th, otherwise I can't go with Emma on our shopping trip.

So I need to be a very very good girl between now and then.

I ate and drank loads at the weekend and did no exercise.

So this week I am going to go for a run 3 times (before work! I did it this morning), do some yoga, write EVERYTHING down that I eat, no snacking in the day, limit myself to one snack before dinner and only drink alcohol on 3 days (wed, Fri and Sat). And not much of it.

Bad and evil

I just had veggie burger and chips for lunch. It was nice, but now I feel minging.
 
Will try to have a good weekend - Dave is working a lot so he will not be there to share Kettle Chips and muffins with me. I will stay home alone nibbling carrot sticks and watching Moulin Rouge with a face mask on instead.

Hello

Sorry, I'm feeling devoid of all inspiration today. I blame the veggie burger and chips I had for lunch. They are weighing my brain down.

Had a fairly good day yesterday apart from 5 and a half pints of Stella. But it was a big night out and I had a good dinner of couscous and veg salad.

Bit of a hangover today though, hence the chips.

I am very glad it's Friday and we don't have to see any member of either my or M's families this weekend. This hasn't happened for about 7 weeks now. Not that I have anything against our families, it will just be nice not to see them for a change.

This weekend I plan to stay in bed, go for a run, go to market and get lots of fruit and veg, buy a pair of black trainers for my new feet to go in and cuddle my husband. We might go and see Farenheit 9/11. What's everyone else doing?

It's Friday!

Oooo, blogger's changed and you can download pictures and all sorts of snazzy things.
 
Here a picture of me - not looking my best in this one so apologies!
 

 
 

I have new feet

and they are very difficult to walk in. And my legs get very tired. How you people manage to walk normally every day, beats me!

Anyway.

Food was bad, but did do an hour in the gym and an hour of walking in my new feet.

Porridge with figs, apricots, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, pecan and brazil nuts, with yog and soya milk
Green tea x3
Pear
Nectarine
Cherries
Duck and pancetta and bean salad with 2 new potatoes
2x focaccia rolls (eek)
Count on us pretzels
Kedgeree
3 glasses wine (oops)

Not bad

Well, apart from some evil cheese.

Breakfast: 2 crumpets and all-fruit jam
Lunch: Jacket potato with beans and cheese
Snack: Apple
Dinner: Moroccan chickpea casserole; yummy but bizarre-sounding barley and prune yoghurt

Exercise: Walking and swimming

Feeling like maintaining my weight isn't too difficult at the moment, but maybe the Monday weigh-in will reveal otherwise.

I'll pretend Tuesday never happened

Let's just say I went to a fantastic Italian restaurant and I didn't go for the healthy options.

Too snacky by half and no yoga

Strawb and banana smoothie
Piece wholemeal toast anc butter
Green tea x4
Nectarine
Emmenthal and pumpkin seed crackers x2
Salad with Llanboidy cheese and 1 Glamorgan sausage
Cherries
Pear
Emmenthal and pumpkin whatsit with mushroom pate
Small piece cheese
The last, v small venison sausage
Duck and pancetta salad with new potatoes
Summer pudding

Far too much scoffing when I got home from work. I blame myself for not going to yoga. And M wasn't answering his phone, so I didn't know when he was coming home and I panicked about when I was eating a meal. I'm a strange one.

A Funny Old Day

I was running on nervous energy all day yesterday because of my job interview, so it was a funny old day for food. I got the job though - yay! It's only a six-month secondment covering my colleagues maternity leave, but it's a bit more cash and good experience, so I'm v pleased indeed!

Flapjack
Houmous and salad sandwich
Half a pizza and lots of salad
Yoghurt

And I went swimming, cut short to 25 minutes by about a billion Spanish people jumping in the pool and shouting a lot. I also walked the three-mile round trip to the station in scary interview shoes and now have blisters all over my feet. Ouch!

Yesterday? What yesterday?

I had such a bad day yesterday that I am too ashamed to blog. I got a craving for bread and that is what I ate non stop from dawn until dusk.

I didn't gp to the gym and I didn't have many fruit and vegetables.

I am a bad girl and I feel dreadful today, particularly as I didn't sleep.

I have discovered that my main trigger for eating is when I feel incompetent.

So today there is to be no messing about, no nonsense, I am going to get on with my job and that's that.

See you! And hope you all have jolly good days.

What is going on?

Yesterday, I weighed myself and I was 11st 2lb. Today, I am 11st 10lb. I have put on 8lbs in a day.

The weekend was not too bad. Went to a BBQ on Saturday night and managed to only have two sausages and lots of salad (although also has 1.5 bottles of wine, so maybe not so good).

Sunday started well. Banana on toast for breakfast, veg curry for lunch, but then it all went horribly wrong. Was v controlled at food festival as I just popped over there for an hour, but the rest of the day involved two cakes, beer and a Chinese takeaway.

Had a job interview this morning. Was very nervous and didn't eat breakfast, but my colleague has just bought me a 'Phew, it's over' flapjack - bad, bad, bad! I'll be angelic from now on though.

Aims for the week, same as last week:
*Walk to the station and back daily
Did it 7 times out of 10

*Do exercise at least three times
Did four lots :-)

*Bring lunch to work every day
Only forgot one day, but had a jp with veg curry in canteen, so not too bad

*No booze on school nights
Failed! But had friends round one night, so it was hard

Morning All

I had a lovely day off on Friday. I was supposed to be having a detox fasting day. It didn't quite work out like that. I did have food, but it was all wheat, dairy and meat free and was really nice. I had a quinoa and tofu salad for lunch and a black bean burger for tea. I also drank lots of fruit and vegetable juices. Nice one was carrot, broccoli and alfalfa juice.

So by the evening, I felt so worthy I drank some wine.

I went for a long run on Saturday morning in the rain up the river and I really enjoyed it. I'm not sure how far it was, but it took me an hour and is probably the longest run I've ever done. I did go VERY slowly though.

Saturday food was OK, apart from we went to the pub and had 3 pints of Stella.

Sunday. Ahem. Food Festival. Nice weather. Different bands playing. Lovely cold Muscadet. Cheese tastings. Venison sausages. Curried chickpea burger. Pastry nut thing (yum). Oh well. Will weigh today. Think I will have lost a big fat zero. Grr.

Big bloater

This morning I weighed myself and I was 5lbs heavier than usual - bah! I am also tired and hungover, so not in a v good mood and want to eat cake.

Yesterday went OK, until I had friends round for dinner.

Porridge with seeds, figs and walnuts
Granary roll with houmous and salad
2 nectarines
Banana
Tofu, sweet potato and avocado salad
Garlic focaccia
Chocolate brownie
Lots of wine

To avoid my usual weekend binge, I am going to go the supermarket after work and stock up on healthy - but yummy - food. I usually crave vegetable curry when I'm hungover, for some strange reason.

Cakefest 2004

Ooooooo, I forgot to recount this spectacular cake fest that happened to me last week. Dave and I decided to go to the v posh Betty's Tea Rooms while we in Harrogate.

We thought we'd go down the traditional route and have a cream tea (although the trolley of cakes was also looking v tempting). Anyway, Dave ordered "two cream teas" - lovely.

When it arrived, I think one cream tea was for two people, and we actually had enough for four people. Two scones each, a massive bowl of clotted cream, plus a giant pot of strawberry jam too. And tea, of course.

We ate the flippin' lot.

Looking forward to our 'Cream Tea Tour of Cornwall' in September.

For Vicks

Here's a link to You are what you Eat, so you know what we're all on about on a Wednesday morning!

I thought that this was a bit sad

I read this in an article today.

'My husband's dream is that, one day, I might bake him a treacle tart like his granny used to make. 'It's never going to happen,' I tell him as I serve up a bowl of organic yoghurt.'

I know what she means, but feel a bit sorry for her husband. She (and we!) should be able to trust ourselves to be able to have an odd treat of treacle tart or cheesecake without having a panic that we will gorge on it.

It's very odd.

Happy People Live Longer

Here's a great story from today's Guardian, about the people of Nagano in Japan, who have high life expectancy due to good diet, lots of friends and laughter. So if this blog is working, we should all live to be 100.

I had an OK day yesterday, only spolit by a cheeky couple of Jaffa Cakes and no walking home due to hideous stormy weather.

Museli and soy milk
3 oat cakes with houmous
Banana
2 nectarines
Lentil Chilli
Mushroom burger, potato wedges (home-made with a teeny bit of olive oil) and peas (in a rush, no time for proper cooking!)
2 Jaffa Cakes

And did a Body Conditioning class too.

My pathetic life

By the time I braved my way through the storm last night to go and see the podiatrist I had calmed down somewhat. Stupid, misogynist old queens at work will not make me get angry again.

So I didn't get drunk. However, the podiatrist said it was a miracle I can walk at all. I am double jointed in my knees and elbows and I never knew (if I had of known I might have put them to some good use!). This has put immense pressure on my knees over the years and has caused my hamstrings and calf muscles to shorten. This has caused me to be knock-kneed and made me walk on me instep, which is causing more knee pain and hip pain. This viscious circle has been going on for 20 years and I have to learn to walk again with orthotics in my shoes. And do lots and lots of stretching.

Anyway. Not bad apart from emergency toast and butter.
Porridge with rasps, pecan nuts, sunflower seeds and soya milk
Green tea x4
Cherries
Ham and bean soup (small cup)
Turkey salad
Banana
Peach
2 pieces toast and butter
V V healthy black rice salad with chick peas, sprouts and seeds
Yoghurt
Small G&B organic chocolate bar

And now I'll go back to doing my pathetic job and living my pathetic life.

For reasons beyond my control

I will be getting drunk tonight.

Good stuff, but too much of it

I don't generally eat lots of rubbish, but I realised last night that my portions are way too big. Any tips about portion control, apart from sheer will power?

Yesterday wasn't too bad, but wasn't great either.

2 slices granary toast with all-fruit cherry jam
2 nectarines
Tofu and veg curry with rice
Bread roll
1 strawberry
2 cherries
Slice of pineapple
Cherry tomato and goats cheese tart
Jacket potato with teeny bit of butter
Peas

Plus a yoga class and 40 minutes walking.

In a serious effort

to lose weight this week, rather than put it on, or remain the same, I am going to adopt the following plan. I would be grateful if you could let me know your thoughts on it and if it will have the required effect (just realised that this sounds like one of my work emails).

On Friday I am taking the day off (hurrah) and I will do a kind of detox day where I will only eat fruit, vegetables, soya and quinoa. I will drink no alcohol and will do my 2 hour yoga video. On Saturday I will go for a 5K run outside and will eat healthily all day. And on Sunday I have to go a food fair. Bugger. Sunday might throw a spanner in the works, but apart from that I think it is a good plan.

Did people watch 'You are what you eat' last night? Doesn't it make ONE feel so worthy?

Anyway.
Strawb and rasp smoothie
Piece toast with butter
Green tea x4
Plum
Cherries
Chickpea dhal and salad
Apple
Yoghurt
Seafood and veg stir fry with black rice (never had before - would recommend)
Half a bread roll (Martin made me)
Slice malt loaf and butter

OK, the 2 last items weren't strictly necessary, but apart from that not a bad day.

A diet dilemma

A dreadful thing happened, but I got through it. The evil man came into our office with leftover buffet food. I was faced with a plate of fruit and a plate of mini muffins.

It was traumatic, a tough decision to make. My heart said muffin, my head said fruit. Should I choose the virtuous option or go for the cakey delight. It was close. My hand hovered over the muffins, then over the fruit, then back to the muffins...

But I thought of my waistline and opted for a strawberry and a slice of pineapple. Hurrah for me!

I think I'll ignore yesterday and pretend it never happened

I didn't write down everything that I ate yesterday. It might have taken too long. What I actually ate wasn't bad, it's just that there was an awful lot of it.

And I had two lunches.

All of this was due to a combination of stress at work, a hangover and tiredness.

I am reformed today.

Promise.

Getting back into it

After the minging weekend, I was craving healthy food yesterday, so found it all quite easy for a change.

Banana
Orange Juice
Green tea x 2
Nice bread roll
Spinach and Nutmeg Soup
Nectarine
Few mouthfuls of pasta salad
Tofu and Veg Thai Curry
Rice

And 30 minutes swimming, 50 minutes walking. Yay!

Feeling awful

I have just come back from the gym. I might as well not have gone as I only managed 15 minutes running and some sit ups and had to leave. I felt sick and I started to get a minging headache.

And I've put on a kilo and I feel even sicker than I did before. I am not a happy bunny today. And it's not TOTM.

Oops

I seem to have eaten my lunch at 10.30.

I don't think today is going to be a very good day.

I'm back and I'm evil

Oh dear. A week of not blogging and it all went horribly wrong. All I need to tell you is that my week off included four pub meals, all involving chips and a pudding. Last night, Dave and I felt sick from so much rubbish food, and are so going for the healthy thing from today onwards. I have sent him to Tesco this morning with a big long shopping list of healthy goodies.

Anyway, aims for this week are:

Walk to the station and back daily
Do exercise at least three times
Bring lunch to work every day
No booze on school nights

Every time I want to eat lard, I will think of how I felt yesterday after eating cake for breakfast at 11am, followed by a pint of bitter and a huge lasagne and chips in the pub an hour later, plus sticky toffee pudding and custard. Bleurgh and double bleurgh!

Same old story

You know what I'm going to say, don't you?

It involved wine, gin, pizza, mississippi mud pie, cream, chocolate tart, a pistachio cornetto (if you have never had one of these, have one now), a cheese and onion toastie (uneccesary, it wasn't even a meal), a goats cheese tart, roast pork and crackling, roast potatoes, roast butternut squash, garlic bread, raspberry sauce, mashed potato, enchilladas.

Oh my god.

I drank no beer though!

Smug Post

I've just been to the reflexologist lady for a back massage. She said I looked really fit, healthy and glowing. And she could tell I'd lost weight on my face and my waist. Hurrah for me!

Tiredness and misery forced me to eat

I was just tired, hungry and fed up last night. So I ate things whilst I was waiting for my dinner to cook. But, I have discovered these yummy things at the health food shop. They are like ryvitas but nice. They have pumpkin seeds and emmanthal cheese on them and they are 50 cals a slice. Trouble is, they are addictive. I had 2 before dinner and so did Martin.

I also measured my waist this morning and I am 34", so slightly less than Henry VIII.

Strawb and banan soya smoothie
Green tea x2
Piece toast with butter
Asparagus soup
Ham and goats cheese salad
2 plums
2 v small satsumas
Pepperami
2x pumpkin seed and cheese ryvita things
salmon wrapped in proscuitto with herby puy lentils and bok choi

Not so good

Strawberries
2 pieces toast and butter
Green tea x3
Small glass of grape juice
cherries
Kedgeree
Yoghurt (Rachel's Organics - anyone had these, they're yum but prob too much sugar)
Piece bread with goats cheese
Small slice malt loaf (the last two were consumed cos I was starving and M had to work late)
Steak, new potatoes, fresh peas, grilled tomato

I had a bizarre experience in my body conditioning class yesterday - I was the fittest person there! They are doing this thing at the gym for all staff where it is cheap and they are encouraging new exercisers. There were these 3 woman, in their mid 40s- mid 50s who couldn't do a thing. They couldn't even march in step in time. The instructor and myself were killing ourselves laughing (in a nice way!) but I didn't get much of a work out. It cheered me up though!

Not entirely sure I want to be Xena Warrior Princess any more. I've been Googling images of her and she's a bit of a scary lass. But, she looks very fit and healthy. And maybe I'd like slightly smaller thighs than her.