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Thursday 28 March 2024

Busy day ahead...

Thursday 23rd March 2024 

I had a usual Wednesday yesterday, morning huddle rest of the day doing just enough housework not to make me feel like a slob but not enough to make me feel like a domestic goddess!

Aryn helped me fetch tuna for the food bank, we managed to empty the shelf of what they had with the donations we've had this last couple of weeks, this is on top of the food our wonderful members bring every week. 

We also helped deliver some stuff for them, so Aryn did his weight lifting workout yesterday carrying trays of cans down very steep stairs!  Because of that, we skipped the gym :) 

I enjoyed a few hours on my jigsaw, I was in bed for half seven and I slept too.  The rain woke me in the night though and it took me a while to get back to sleep. I'm fully rested this morning thankfully. 

Food for me was simple yesterday, I enjoyed beans on toast for breakfast, so much so I've had the other half of the can this morning for the same breakfast, been a rebel and had an egg with it too today.  

Dinner was Coquilles St Jacques with roast peppers, I'd bought them frozen from Aldi at Christmas when they were on offer for £4, they're £7 in M&S, you could tell the difference between them, I wouldn't buy them again but they fed us which when you think about the people who can't afford food at the minute, I'm grateful. 

I had a slice of victoria sponge yesterday too!  I don't know where this sweet tooth thing has come from but it needs to do one!  I only ate it because it was there, but I usually resist and what makes me laugh is the servings they say is in the cake!   A sixth of the cake was 247 calories, it was the size of a side plate!


I had a quarter and could've easily eaten half of it, if I'd had cream, I'd have poured that on it too!  The truth is though, if you only do that occasionally, it's absolutely fine, it's when you get into the habit of doing it every other day that it becomes a problem!

Anyway, I have a really busy day ahead, I've not decided what we're eating for dinner tonight!  The freezer has stuff that could be cooked from frozen, there is leftover cottage pie, that I'm considering, himself is due back later so maybe that's a simple meal, take out now and microwave.  Sorted that's food decided.  This meal plannings not that hard is it :)

Have a great Thursday, 

Mwah, luv ya 


Love me xx





Wednesday 27 March 2024

Cats woke me up this morning - Aren't they lovely!

 Wednesday 27th March 2024

Finally a day honestly tracked, so one day done, now for day two, I also need to work on lowering the intake!  At least I ate good food!  Scrambled eggs on toast which are always lush then for dinner we had pasta bake.  I'd frozen some salami/pepperoni/ham slices because we weren't going to eat them so I took them out the freezer and chopped them up,  


I made a pasta sauce using a can of tomato paste that was Best Before December 2023, it was fine and will be for a few years, I made it using the paste, added some water, frozen garlic and dried herbs, I've frozen the other tubs for the next time we have pasta bake.  Added pasta, tin sweetcorn and topped with 100g cheddar.  Delicious and easy! 




The rest of my day was huddles, a trip to the food bank to drop stuff off, thanks to everyone who brings something as a donation, just one can of food, pack of spaghetti or loo roll helps.  

I started watching AJ and the queen last night, really liking it, could've stayed up longer but I went to bed at 9 knowing I needed to get that sleep as I wake up at the same time regardless of what time I go to bed!  

I was pleased with my Fitbit progress yesterday, 8,643 steps, 9 zone minutes and 2,330 calories burned only a couple hundred more than I consumed though!  So many of us believe we burn more than we do, we may have burned more when we were younger but as we age we burn less.  The weekend when I didn't do much I was only burning up 1800 calories and I know I consumed more without having tracked it!  

It's all good though, I'm going to the gym today with Aryn, we'll burn a few there, hopefully as my joint pain improves I'll be able to do more and burn more.  Wished I'd got a passion for having a tidy house, then I'd burn some doing the cleaning but I hate doing it, it's never-ending isn't it!

Let's not think about such things.  I need to think about todays food, I want to continue to use the freezer stuff, I'm thinking a bit of fish, although I fancy beans of toast too, I might have that for breakfast actually. 

I'm gonna get my day started, I've done my physio, got me an exercise ball to do the new exercises on it to save my knees, great physio lady listened to me and adjusted what I was doing accordingly.  It's worth getting out of bed earlier, even on the mornings I really don't want to!

Here's to a wonderful Wednesday, the sun's shining at the minute, maybe it'll last, it's still cold isn't it, I need some warmth in my bones, Easter at home for sure this year! 

Mwah, luv ya 

Love me x 

Tuesday 26 March 2024

Ready for the day! Are you?

Tuesday 26th March 2024


I'm feeling loads better today than I have since Saturday when the cold hit me, yesterday was as if it was bringing it out the other side and I've woken up without any of the body tiredness, so I'm ready to get back to taking care of myself properly.

I've just had scrambled egg on toast with a cheese triangle, that'll keep me going for hours, I'm enjoying a mug of tea too, I did go a month without any but I have missed it so I'm just gonna have a cup here and there and still have the hot water, which I'll be swapping for more cold water now it's warming up outside, a bit anyway.

I had physio yesterday and I've come so far since I started them in February, it was worth paying for, I did have the free NHS one but didn't get anywhere with that.  This one has given me exercises, adjusted them accordingly and massaged my piriformis muscle which I could tell helped the first time she did it, so she did it again yesterday and has given me more exercises so I shouldn't have to go again.  3 sessions was worth every penny!  An hour of exercises every morning for 2 calendar months, my first appointment was actually on February 26th.  My pain out of 10 then was easily an 8, yesterday it was a 2 or a 6 if I've been doing things.  I need to continue with the exercises but hopefully the more I build up the core muscles, the better I'll be and I'll be able to be more active.  I can now wash up without having to sit down to do it - that's massive progress!

We went to the gym yesterday and I was able to walk for 10 minutes with no pain in my back or leg, just my knee which is a different thing all together.  That's massive progress, normally by minute 3, I'm in pain and by 10 mins I'd want to cry!  WOO HOOOOOOO.  I'm going to take it stead and just build up 5 minutes each week, not go at it too fast, like I'm known to do!

I'm able to sleep on my left side now too, I couldn't do that for months, not even for a few minutes, it wasn't until I sat taking to her, how much progress I'd made.  It's so good, the weight loss will have helped too, so I need to remember that because I have let that slide and it's been a month of not doing it properly, I haven't tracked since the 10th and the scales have shown it!  

I've just stopped and tracked my breakfast, the bread wasn't weighed and the slices were all different sizes so I've had to guess the weight but I've done that, it's better than not tracking at all! 

Breakfast 323 calories including the tea.  I've got food in freezer for later, skint here but we can use what we have!  There's lots of food in the freezer and it can all be tracked!  Frozen and canned veggies are just as good as fresh!  

I managed 30 zone minutes thanks to the gym visit, 2093 calories throughout the day, I would've consumed more but that was yesterday - I'm focusing on today and the last few days of March.  I can cope with Easter, I have got us all an egg but I will resist I think and give Aryn two!   I've developed a sweet tooth, I need to get rid of, or if I want something sweet I need to track it!  

Right that's me having a word with myself, water is my focus for today and tracking everything regardless! 

What are you going to focus on?

Mwah, luv ya 

Love me xx 


Monday 25 March 2024

Very lazy weekend

Monday 25th March 2024


Well I've done nothing all weekend!  After the huddle on Saturday, I came home, put my pjs on and lay on the sofa watching tele because I was full of cold.  I decided resting would help me shift it quicker, plus I had nothing that had to be done and nowhere I needed to be.

I've watched lots of tele, we enjoyed the remake of Roadhouse on Prime, and I've loved Girls 5 Eva on Netflix, really naff but properly made me laugh.  I've done a jigsaw and not ate great, to be fair all I had Saturday was jam on toast, a ready sandwich and a pot noodle because I didn't have the energy to do anything else.  Yesterday, I had 4 sausages out of the freezer with 2 eggs and a slice of bread then 1 piece of chicken with some couscous and 1/4 of a tube of Pringles which Aryn went to get me because I really fancied them.  

I'm on the mend thankfully so my plan worked, it probably didn't help my weight loss journey much but hey, there's always tomorrow.  I didn't do my physio either, I just didn't have the energy or strength.  I have got away without catching anything for the last 6 months though, so I'll take this bit of lurgy, hopefully I'll be fully recovered for Easter weekend. 

I've got a physio appointment this morning at 8am so I need to wash - yeah I've not washed all weekend and I won't lie - I smell!  I have a blocked nose so I didn't care and the only thing that came close to me was the cats and they don't seem to care.  I'm actually looking forward to being clean - life goals, you can't beat them :) 

All my bread pudding went to the huddle Saturday and was eaten thankfully or I'd have probably lived on that! 

I'm not gonna lie, we're having donor kebab for dinner today, Aryn wanted one last Thursday and they had none so I've promised him one today, chippy was closed or we'd have had it yesterday, so other than that, I'll be healthy today, promise, work at getting my healthy back.  Although the fridge is almost empty, I have a bit of spinach though so I could make an omelette with that.  I've got frozen veggies too. 

It's whether I can be bothered again, I reckon having a wash and getting dressed in clean clothes will perk me up and I'll feel ready to get stuff done.  It's too easy to stay poorly ain't it! 

Right, let's get this day started, I do have a huddle chat to plan so I need to get my thinking cap on.

Have a great day, 

Mwah, luv ya

Love me. 



Friday 22 March 2024

I'm looking forward to my Friday.

 Friday 22nd March 2024




The bread pudding went down well yesterday and I was asked for the recipe that I use.  There is a good one on the bbc website Bread pudding recipe | Good Food (bbcgoodfood.com), but this is the recipe I used. 

In a large bowl tear up 400g of white bread (I used the crusts as well but you can remove them if you like) and add 600ml milk and allow to soak for 10 mins. Using your hands or a wooden spoon, mash it all up to combine. Stir in 450g dried fruit (I used raisins and sultanas) and 100g sugar. Then add 50g Self Raising flour and one & a half tbsp of mixed spice. Finally add 2 beaten eggs and 100ml of melted butter. Pour into a rectangular or square baking tin approx 20cm x 25 cm and bake for one and a half hours at 150 deg C. Turn up the heat to 180 and cook for another 10 mins or so until pudding browns. Excellent warm with custard or eaten cold. 


If you use skimmed milk and large eggs it 241 calories for a 16th of the recipe, adjust accordingly depending on the milk and size of eggs you use, but it's delicious, one of my favourites and only made better if it has custard on it!  I love a bit of stodgy, comfort food!  

I did however put a pound on at the scales, I don't usually eat breakfast and I'd had at least two pieces - oops, but if I'm honest, I've not been able to fill myself up this week, I've just wanted to eat.  Even Aryn said last night though, that he's fed up of eating rubbish, he can feel the effect it's having on his body.  That is reason enough for us to get our healthy back, starting today!  I have salmon in the fridge which we'll have for dinner, I'm thinking with rice or couscous, something simple.  I might actually make it early and we'll have a cold salmon salad when we get in from the gym, that sounds nice and light yeah.

It's Friday, I don't have to be anywhere but the gym later, I've just started my physio but had to stop as my lower backs hurting this morning so I'll do it tomorrow instead, I'll still have done 5 times this week which is what I'm supposed to do. 

Part of me wants to do nothing all day, part of me wants to do a clean up job on the house, which part will win we shall see!  He's working away this weekend so I could do it over the weekend, I'll play it by ear, see how I feel. 

Its took me ages to type this because Coco keeps insisting on a bit of love, so I can't get to the keyboard for him!  

Let's leave it there then and I'll give him the fuss he wants!

Have a great day, YAY it's Friday!

Mwah, luv ya 


Love me x



Thursday 21 March 2024

All about the bread!

Thursday 21st March 2024


I spent some time in the kitchen yesterday using up bread by making a bread pudding which I now have to try and resist!  It works out at 217 calories per 100g which is a decent size, but at least it's healthy-ish as far as a sweet treat is concerned!  It could be frozen too.

 
This is what a 100g slice looks like on a side plate.


Next we made french bread pizza and it was proper tasty, I'd made a puree out of the roasted tomatoes I used up and topped it with some pepperoni slices, spinach and a bit of cheese - lush! 


  

They cost me 600 calories but they were worth it and it was my dinner.  

Busy day today, I'm rested today because I went to bed at half seven, must have fell asleep almost instantly, still had the awake time but managed 2 hours deep sleep and I can tell proves it pays off going to bed early - for me anyway.

I've just had a small bit of bread pudding for breakfast, I'll have leftover chicken for my dinner later, we'll see what the scales have to say in a short while, I need to get back to how I was doing a few weeks ago.  I just don't want to gain, 1/2lb a month loss would do me as long as it's not going up!

We had half hour at the gym last night, I burned 2,421 calories and managed 46 zone minutes so that's an improvement! 

Anyway, here's to a great day, 

Mwah, luv ya 


Love me xx



Wednesday 20 March 2024

Midweek already!

Wednesday 20th March 2024 


Yesterday went by in a flash, some days do that don't they!  The huddles went quickly then I nipped home to make my chicken with 40 cloves of garlic which has to be in the oven for 90 minutes and that was gone in a minute, then Aryn was walking through the door from school!  


Yeah the entire day was over before it started and I was in bed before half eight.  We did watch a bit of tele together Aryn and I, I listened to my audio book the rest of the time whilst doing my jigsaw, I'm thinking I may be able to do my jigsaw under the lean to as it warms up.  

I didn't track though which I really need to start doing because it is what makes the difference.  How easy is it to go into self destruct without even realising!  My lazy food choices are causing me gastric problems but it doesn't stop me doing it because the food is easy and enjoyable - oh and cheap! 

There's too much bread to use up and I don't like waste!  I just need to put something on it that's going to add the fibre so I'm thinking tomatoes on toast for breakfast this morning, or beans on toast for lunch, we shall see.

Right I need to get a grip, I've done my physio which feels like it's getting more difficult, I woke with a crick in my neck this morning and walking like the evolution of man to the bathroom - I've straightened up now though an the cricks gone. 

I'm watching Celeb Big Brother whilst typing, I do love rubbish tv and I make no apologies for it.  

I do need to go get ready for work though, so I'm say have a great day, I'm gonna go make that tomatoes on toast I think, it sounds good.

Mwah, luv ya

love me xx