Strictly come dining

Quite where my ability to eat carefully had come from after weeks of having the odd biscuit, handful of chocolate buttons and sweet and sticky dried fruit, I do not know. But, it has come from somewhere and I’m quite pleased with myself. I must be completely honest though and confess to two oat biscuits…

Stay or go?

As ever, I had yoghurt and summer fruits each morning this week (except for Tuesday when I had the last fresh fig sliced in to my yoghurt) and a yoatie during the morning. I had sultanas in my yoatie every day until Friday when I ran out and snipped two dried pitted dates into my…

Target practice

I had planned my meals, as usual, and done my shopping at the weekend to ensure that I would meet the macronutrient targets and continue to increase my lean muscle. To a degree it was successful. I don’t have a magic formula and I still don’t want to eat the same things every day. Actually,…

Mr Muscle

After a few weeks of apparently gaining fat and not gaining muscle, I was delighted to have what my trainer called ‘the perfect tracker’ on Monday evening. I had lost fat and gained muscle. The news was instantly motivating and I hoped to carry on eating well in the coming week and training as hard…

Mighty meaty

I was up quite early on Saturday for training. I had oat pancakes with blueberries for breakfast. The pancake batter requires 100g of oats to one egg and 100ml of milk – almond milk today. I cooked half of the batter saving the rest to have with breakfast number two. I heated the blueberries in…

Spring bank holiday

Only for the sake of completeness will I bother to mention that I had yoghurt and summer fruits for breakfast and a sultana yoatie at work on Friday morning. For lunch I had a grilled chicken breast with bulgar wheat and whatever vegetables were left in the fridge; peppers, carrot, onion. I still had the beetroot…

No direction

Waking up on Monday morning knowing that there was no water in the flat made motivation to get up very hard to muster. No coffee, no apple cider vinegar in cooked water, no ‘facilities’. I had raspberries with some of the yoghurt I’d bought on the way home on Sunday for breakfast. I could put some…

Chicken and beetroot

On Monday morning, I started my food week with yoghurt and summer fruits and made a raspberry yoatie for my morning snack. For lunch I had the leftover salads from my Georgian feast with a grilled chicken breast. There was beetroot salad, spinach balls, grilled aubergine stuffed with walnuts, and tomato, so glorious I put…

A new phase

Each month at the gym (we’ve not to call it a gym), the sessions change format so that our bodies don’t get too used to the intervals. Tuesday was the first day of the new phase for May and it is probably the hardest yet with five-minute intervals to get through. I spent the whole…

London marathon

The cupboards were pretty bare by Saturday morning but I did have the ingredients for oat pancakes. I made the batter and cooked half of it to have with summer fruits and crème fraiche. I quickly got ready to go out as I had a few errands to run before training at 10am. My session was…