Boom!

Today I am going to give my husband and myself a pat on the back.  We only blooming run 11 miles in the freezing cold against the wind  along the coast from Kingsdown to Sandwich.  This is the furthest we have ever run, BOOM!!!!
Next long run just has to be 13 miles 1/2 marathon, but not for a while.

Todays food:
Breakfast: fruit and yoghurt
Lunch: 1 rasher of bacon, tinned toms, scrambled eggs and 1/2 a roll with no butter.
Dinner: Chilli Con Carne served with a jacket potato  2 small slices of Focaccia , thin slice of cheese on my potato along with a tomato salsa.

I have been a little naughty with bread today, but I think this can be overlooked as i burnt 1203 calories today :-)

Saturday nights alright!

Today we went for a run, I was so not up for it because the night before I had drunk quite a bit of red wine, and had not gone to bed until 02.15 and was awoken at 05.30 by my daughter being ill.  So a run was the last thing on my mind but, we ran a little bit further and a little bit faster than we had before. So for most of today i've been feeling a little smug.

Todays food:

Breakfast: a small serving of Fruit and Fibre with  a banana, served with Skimmed Milk.
Lunch: Tuna served on a bed of Little gem lettuce, some spring onion, tomato an some beetroot



Dinner: Slimming world chips, with mini baby corn and Piri Piri chicken




Oh and I made a cake.  It's a lemon sponge cake with Lemon curd in the middle.  Not that I will be eating it.




It's now 20.50, I'm sat on the settee with my hubby and Marley, chilling and thinking about my achy muscles (mainly my butt) but chilling and thinking that 'Saturday Nights Alright'

Good Day

What a sunny day it was today, bit chilly but nice.  Alan and I went for a little  7.5 mile run, normally I have to have a little break and have a walk, but today was brilliant, I ran virtually all the way and only stopped twice whilst running up a long steep hill.  I wish I could do this all the time, I don't know why I felt different / more positive but I did. 
Today's run I  burnt 700 cals, not bad going I'd say.  One thing though, I have a Garmin 110 forerunner that is driving me mad.  It's too slow finding satellites, if you forget to charge it your stuffed, connecting to Garmin connect on line takes forever.  Oh and today the heart rate monitor was playing up, no way was my heart rate 78bpm when running up a hill panting like a dog on the hottest sunny day, 178 maybe ut not 78.. With all this going wrong I'm sure I burnt more calories.  But will go with 700.

A couple of weeks ago,  I was looking through the blogs I follow and came across a watch that someone had blogged about  and really liked it, it looked big and smart and for an old bird a little bit trendy.  I ordered said watch from Ebay and am really  pleased.  The watch only cost £1.49 and I'm delighted, for one I can see what the time is (I'm as blind as a bat) and the fact that it fits well is amazing.  I have tiny little wrists and find it hard for watches to look nice, but this one has a silicone strap and fits really well and the face of the watch looks smart.  I would like to give credit to however posted the watch in the first place, but I can't find who it was that posted it.   so here is the link http://my.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyEbay&gbh=1   for £1.49 you really can't go wrong

Food Today :Breakfast - Fruit and Yoghurt.
Lunch: Bacon, Eggs, Beans, Tinned Toms and Mushrooms - Sorry for the blurry picture but I needed to eat as I was starving.

Dinner: Shepherds Pie made with extra lean beef, veg and topped with sweet and white potato. Gravy, cabbage and broccoli.

Nice day

Alan and I went for a lovely walk along Kingsdown beach , it was a bit chilly but at least it had stopped raining.  We seem to have had rain every morning for so long now, hope it's not too bad in the morning as i want to go for a run.

So here's a couple of pics from todays walk, love the name on the boat :-)

Had my weigh in today, no loss no gain.. :-(  I really want to lose 7lbs by Christmas, I'm desperate to lose it.  Alan is helping me so much bless him.

Food:
Breakfast, fruit and Yoghurt
Lunch: Tuna Salad - Tuna in Spring water served on a bed of lettuce with tomato and beetroot.



          Dinner:  Tuna steaks with a balsamic and onion reduction, Baked potato and asparagus spears.


Snack: Fresh Blueberries and Fresh Pomegranate

For my Husband!

Today I would like to pay homage to my husband. Yes I know this may sound soppy but because of him I went for a run today.  I didn't want too, i didn't think I would run again but thanks to him motivating me and running with me I did it.  We did it, we went for a 5 mile run in the rain but we did it and I feel all fired up again. It's so easy not to exercise but so hard to get back into when you have had a couple of week off.   So Alan, thank you so much for getting me going again.. I love you xxx  <3

Food today
Breakfast:  fruit and Yoghurt
Lunch - left over Spaghetti bologese

Dinner: Homemade chicken curry

rain water dripping from my hair after our run today

Sunday

Last night was nice, Thomas, Alan and I went to the pub for a few drinks to celebrate my son getting the job he's wanted for ages.  From January 4th he's going to be the 'head of photography' for a company called Triggertrap.  He is so excited and thrilled and we are so proud.

I don't know why but I seem to have lost my mojo, I just can't seem to get motivated to exercise.  There is a new class on a the village hall which is 2 mins from my house and I really should go and try it out but I really cannot be bothered.. I'm also bored out of my skull, it's Sunday morning i'm on my own, there are obviously things I could do but when you are so bored you don't want to do them.  Oh well, I best drag myself out of bed and go for a soak in bath, at least it's something to do.

Saturday again

So it's Saturday morning, i'm still in bed and i'm feeling really lazy and bored already.  How can I feel bored when i'm not even up, in fact I don't want to get up.  Hubby suggested we could go for a run, at first I was up for it as we have not been for a while, now I really just can't be arsed.  I seemed to have lost my get up and go which is not going to be easy to get back.
  It's that time of year again when things get so difficult, no money, no car, Christmas looming over us.  arghhh, I really do hate this time of year.



Food: Salad with boiled egg for lunch
Dinner: slowed cooked lamb, 1/2 jacket potato, brocolli, peas, carrots and a couple of roasted parsnips not forgetting a splash of gravy.

Sleeping

What a great start to the day.. We started the day with a lay in, we didn't get up until 11.05.  We never  ever sleep in until that time and I don't know if I felt better for it or not.

It's a wet and windy day again today so we did not go for a run, it's been a while now and I'm  missing it.  I am off  now until Wednesday and hope to have a few days where i can go for a run. 

Thomas is coming home tonight for a visit and I'm so looking forward to it.  He had some really good news today, he got himself a full time job for a company he really wanted to work for, doing something he is passionate about. From the 4th January 2014 he will be working for Trigger Trap as the 'Head of Photography'  I am so so proud of him.  I'm proud of both my children



So today's food.. Scrambled eggs for brunch.  lentil soup for lunch and wholemeal pasta for dinner.. 
All very tasty food.
I did have a sneaky weigh in this morning (i know I shouldn't) and i was a pound lighter so not having so many carbs appears to be helping, can't wait for Tuesday for the proper weigh day..

Oh and more good news today, remember I said about the dress I wanted, well I now actually have it.  Christmas outfit sorted.. Yayyyy.

Few days off

Thank heavens my working week is over, what a rubbish few days I've had, grumpy patients, rude patients, demanding patients, the worse week ever!!

Anyway moving on..

Today I had a fasting blood test for my cholesterol, I've not had one for over a year and thought I'd ask my GP for another.  Last year my serum  cholesterol level was 7, the ratio  was 6.4, I can't remember what the hdl was but I know it wasn't brilliant.  So I popped to my GP to ask for another test, on speaking to the Dr he told me that I was high risk and should be on meds.  Last year I was not high risk, this year I am...huh!!!! I told the GP that and he said because of my family history (dad died at 50 something of heart attack (he also had angina, high cholesterol runs in the family) I am classed as high risk.   I asked if I could still have a blood test purely to see if my diet and exercise has helped.  Anyway I was given a blood form and had my fasting blood test today, on speaking to the phlebotomist  I told her that i was supposedly high risk and she offered a to give me a risk assessment.  Well to my surprise the outcome said that my heart was that of a 58 year old and  I was well and truly surprised and shocked at this outcome.  Obviously this result is only a guide and there maybe some sceptics who think it's a load of rubbish, but it's made me think a little differently.  My previous result I confess I was a little blaze about because, I run loads, eat really well and thought I was fine and that my next result maybe high but i look after myself and it will be fine. Now I'm thinking s**t, a heart of a 58 year old, that's scary and perhaps meds may be the only resolution.  For my heart to be that of someone my age, my ratio needs to come down to 3. Now I'm not sure if i can do that without meds, I will have to wait for the results now and see where I am at.  This certainly has me a little worried to say the least..

I am still healthy eating with a slight change in the diet, my husband read an article which my FIL saved us from the Daily Mail Paper.  Basically my husband is losing weight and I've stopped losing weight , one big difference is that I eat rice for Lunch and he doesn't.   He think that after reading the article the reason that I've stopped losing is because the amount of carbs I'm consuming, so I'm not having so many carbs and will see on Tuesday if this has helped.  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2459915/Could-low-fat-diet-make-EVEN-FATTER-As-experts-question-conventional-wisdom-diets-extraordinary-results-mans-experiment.html

'You don't need to diet'

Why do over weight  people tell you that you don't need to diet?  I declined a biscuit today from a work colleague I told her I  was dieting.  She told me that I didn't need to diet, what does she know?  I am not huge (unlike her) I try and eat healthy ((unlike her) and would like to lose 7lbs to bring my BMI to normal..in total  I have lost 8lbs now and my clothes  fit  better , I feel better.. How does she feel?? Perhaps I'm feeling a little prickly as I weighed myself today and know that come tomorrow, I will be the same weight as last week or maybe even have gained a pound, Will see what happens.

So up until today I was feeling positive, now I'm feeling peed off.  Weather has been to crappy to go running, that's probably half the reason for me being a grump, running makes me happy.  Yes, it's a mad statement, running is hard, running makes me worn out, it makes my knees click, it makes me sweat, but it also makes me feel good and feel that i've achieved some thing.

So Yesterday I weighed myself, no gain no loss.. Not happy, I wanted to see a loss.. My husband thinks it's because of the carbs I eat that I am holding on to the pounds.  So this weeks experiment I will be mainly eating fruit, veg and meat with resrticted carbs and if that don't work then nothing will..!!!




Todays lunch was:

Lean bacon, baked beans, sunny side down fried egg and tinned plum toms, followed by a fat free yoghurt with pomegranate.. Yum - Picture later :-)
Now off to work, people had better be nice to me..!!

Friday

Not much to say really, other than had a lay in, went shopping, ate lunch, ate dinner.. lazed on the sofa.  Perfect day I would say.!!

I have stuck to the healthy eating  regime, but  I could so eat something really sweet now, my thoughts are with the large bar of fruit & nut chocolate in the cupboard. arghhh i want to eat it..
Might just grab a fat free yoghurt instead.

So not a lot of exercise this week, just 1 long run. The weather has been a bit rubbish to go running, well that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it..

Food.

Breakfast: Fruit and Yoghurt
Lunch: 2 slices of bacon, fried egg, tinned toms and baked beans
Dinner: Baked potato, 2 quorn sausages, baked beans and tomatoes.  Pretty boring but was using left overs.