Daily Diet Update and Reasons to be cheerful

Tuesday
Today current weight: 63kg, 139pounds, 9 stone 12
Yesterday Exercise; 30 mins dog walking
Yesterday Food intake; 
Breakfast; coffee, banana
Mid morning snack; coffee, licorice sweets 
Lunch; Home made burger, salad, whole avocado, bowl of Harvest crunch cereal
Afternoon; fruit cake and tea and bowl of cereal
Dinner; large salad, Veal Milanaise (trying to eat lots of veal as read in Country Life that due to people not eating British veal because of cruelty, ironically it makes life WORSE for the poor male calves who are either slaughtered within minutes of birth or shipped to another country where standards are much lower than here.  So if you eat meat, start buying veal, it MUST be British and ideally Rose Veal that has lived outside)

Evening snack; Camomile tea with honey and bowl of Harvest Crunch cereal

Wednesday

Today current weight: as above

Yesterday Exercise; 1hour running with dog, 15 minutes rowing, 15 minutes cross trainer

Breakfast; Coffee and handful of seeds

Midmorning snack; Cappucino and biscuits

Lunch; Chicken Caesar Salad, apple and carrot juice, hazelnut meringue and coffee cream sauce, glass of champagne

Afternoon; Tea and Bonne Maman cake

Dinner; Venison steaks, broccoli, salad and gnocchi (venison is another rare meat, that tastes better than steak and needs to be bought in order to create a market that support the British countryside)

Evening snack; Decaff coffee, marrons glaces (sweetened chestnuts)

Thursday

Today current weight; As above

Yesterday Exercise; Body balance class, 20 minutes dog walking

Breakfast; Coffee and vitamin drink

Midmorning snack; coffee

Lunch; Spelt, whole red pepper, seeds, salad

Afternoon; Tea and Bonne Maman cake, bag of dried apple rings

Dinner: Organic serloin steak, salad and french style lentils

Evening snack; Decaff coffee, marrons glaces (sweetened chestnuts)

Reasons to be Cheerful;

Weather beautiful.

Definitely getting fitter, ran (properly running not my usual plodding jogging) for two lots of half an hour and didn't stop once.

Met with friends who are a pleasure to be with, no having to be careful about saying the wrong thing, all very relaxed and informal.

I have seen a lot of family members who I don't usually catch up with, but keep doing things nearby and popping in for cups of tea.

My approved food box arrived and it is fab (will do a post on this)

Finally labelled and posted about 100 items sold on ebay hurrah!

Daily Diet Update and Reasons to be Cheerful

Today current weight: not sure (forgot to weigh in at gym, this is becoming a habit, must try to have some trace of a memory of diet in my consciousness at some point in the day, and if not at the gym when?!)
Yesterday Exercise; 1 hour hardcore aerobics, 3 x 20 min dog walk
Yesterday Food intake; 
Breakfast; coffee, orange, 2 egg omelette
Mid morning snack; coffee, banana, almonds
Lunch; steak casserole on bed of spinach and mint
Afternoon; tea and fruit cake
Dinner; steak casserole and peas, cashew nuts, walnuts and raisins
Evening snack; milky decaff coffee


The exercise class was a really hard one, I normally have to stop in parts, but I did the whole thing until all my muscles burnt.  I am wondering if it is a combination of eating a lot more food than usual over the previous days and the 'steak stew' which I rather over catered and as I can't bear waste, will eat until it is gone.  Either way, my intensity and endurance was markedly more than usual.  Added to this, I did not feel the post exercise total exhaustion, rather was full of energy to tackle the tasks of the day.


Today is so beautiful, that I thought I might add a daily record of 3 reasons to be cheerful as well as my diet, which seems to suggest deprivation, although there hasn't been much of that recently!

There are the 'big' things that I thank God for daily, which I will list today, but each day there are really small, almost imperceptible positive things that happen and when they accumulate, can surround us in a warm glow.  
The biggies;
1. That everyone I love is healthy, recently some of my friends have been through terrible time with ones that they love, it is worse than when it is personal, I give daily thanks that I am unbelievably lucky to not have a single major illness amongst those that I care about.
2. That I am healthy, we often glibly refer to this when everything else is terrible, but having spent a day at a breast clinic after a recent scare, it was a humbling experience and I will never take health forgranted again.
3. That I have people to love and I am loved.  This gives me security and I crave it more than anything else.
4. That I can eat good food daily, yes, I budget and I am too mean to buy my mountains of vegetables and fruit anywhere other than the market.  But I am still lucky enough to eat whatever I want each day.
5. That I have a home that is warm and cosy and is my sanctuary, it may be small, but it is all that I need and when I come home it is like being in an embrace.
6. That I have friends that I see every day, friends who do not judge, envy, compete or gossip (in a nasty way) only in a really funny interesting way!  We are all completely different in age and lifestyle, but each is happy with who they are and accepts the others for who they are without any need to impose their views or opinions on the others.


These are the things that I couldn't live without and am thankful for every day of my life.

The three small things that made me cheerful today....
1. I watched a virtuous circle occur; I was let out in traffic, I stopped to allow a car to turn into the road into which I was going, they in turn stopped for the next car coming out of a side road, who in turn slowed down to let bikes come through a narrow side road.  Imagine how safe the roads would be if everyone drove like this!
2. The sun shone all day, it was cold, only one or 2 degrees, but the sunshine masked the chill and made everything beautiful.
3.The normally shy horses came to see me while I walked the dog and stood for ages letting me pet them.


What are you thankful for today?