Day 58 - Week 8 Weigh In

No change. No weight loss or cm loss. Gutted!

I've worked pretty darn hard this week with my food intake, however I have only been on one walk this week which must be why there has been no change!

Not a happy bunny over here!

:( x

Day 57 - Plodding along...

Not much to report today guys! I ate super healthily, but didn't fit the walk in in the end as I had to go back to the doctors.

The heart palpitations hadn't improved so went back to the doctors who has prescribed me with some tablets to reduce my heart rate. Hopefully things will improve very soon!

We cooked a yummy homemade chicken curry for tea, and I also made a mint sauce to go in top, similar to the raita sauce you get in the restaurants. It's the sumpilist of recipies... three table spoons of low fat natural yoghurt and one table spoon of mint sauce. I told you it was simple!

Hope you are well! X

Day 56 - Green Fingers

I love sunshine! Living in England, you don't half appreciate it more when it's here! Albeit, it was only for a few hours, so I made the most of it and tidied the garden. We have had so much rain over the past month or so, everything in the garden has really overgrown. I wasn't planning on doing the garden, so haven't got a before shot, but this is how it looks now. Still a little overgrown, but I don't have the greenest of fingers so it will just have to do for now! :)

Loving my plant pots this summer as well. I couldn't tell you what flowers they are though unfortunately... except they are pretty!

Food wise, it was a good day. I was on my own for tea so treated myself to my favourite vegetable pasta dish, accompanied with a corn on the cob which needed eating. A little was left over and so will be joining me for lunch tomorrow. Yum!

Hope you have all had a good day. Tomorrow I will be attempting a 3 mile walk, and am looking forward to it so much!

Ellie x

Day 55 - Walking on Sunshine!

 

It felt SO good getting these clothes back on! I haven't been on a power walk for a good few weeks due to my broken toe, but tonight I went for it! And it wasn't too bad. There was a slight ache on some steps, but I'd say 90% of the walk was perfect! I'm going to attempt another walk in two days, and hopefully add some jogging into it as well! :)

The walk wasn't a long one, as I wasn't sure how my toe would hold up, but I am so glad the 'first' walk is now done! My next walk will be back to the normal 3 miles, and hopefully a little jogging! I can't believe I am looking forward to jogging... how strange.

:)

Once we returned from the walk, we then cooked up a feast! We shared a large sweet potato, is it just me or do you reach for the largest sweet potato in sight when shopping?! I don't get why I do, I must feel it is better value for money, even though you pay for the weight! So yeah, we cooked sweet potato and made a chilli to go with it.

IT WAS GORGEOUS! The tastiest tea I have had in a while. Below are our ingredients, incase you are thinking of replicating...(trust me, it's easy)

1 x Pepper

7/8 x Mushrooms

1 x Onion

400g Extra Lean Mince

1 x Carton of Passatta

1 x tbsp of Hot Chilli Powder

1 x tbsp Basil

1 x Clove of Garlic

The receipe is so SO simple, you basically;

• Chop up veg
• Cook mince
• Add veg once mince is almost cooked
• Then add herbs and spices
• After five minutes then add passatta
• Chilli will be ready in another 15/20 mins!

Personally I would add kidney beans, however the otherhalf doesn't like them. How rude?! Our cooking is very 'throw it together and see how it comes out', so you can make any changes to the ingredients above and I am sure it would taste just as good! Let me know if any of you try it out.

And for pudding...

Delicious!

Although it didn't taste as good as it does when on holiday... funny that. It got me thinking about holidays and how much I would love to be laying on a sun lounger, next to a pool in the glorious sunshine. Oh how I would love to be there! I haven't been on a 'sun' holiday in almost two years, and won't be going on another until atleast our honeymoon... in ten months! What about you guys? Will you be sunning it this year, or taking an alternative holiday? Last year we went to Boston and New York, and would love to return one year. As much as I love a chilled holiday by the pool, that holiday won hands down, I would recommend anyone to visit those cities!

*Ahhh...reminiscing*

Ellie x

Day 54 - A Good Day!

Well guys, you know that wagon we all get on at some point in our life? The one that is so damn bumpy you could blink and fall off it? Well, I'm on it! And am holding on for dear life and not wanting to come off!

I am feeling SO motivated, and want to succeed! This is a good day :)

The fridge is stocked with food supplies for the week. I barely bought any cupboard items, the majority was all fresh food, which makes me feel even better about myself! Having the tools to succeed is very important, otherwise it is setting yourself up for failure. Well in my case anyway!

Food Diary -

Breakfast - Special K with semi-skimmed milk
Lunch - Salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar dressing
Dinner - Pork and Sweet Chilli Sausage with new potatoes, peas and sweetcorn
Snacks - Red grapes, sweet and sour noodle mugshot

I didn't get chance to exercise today as I had to make another doctors visit about my heart palpitations. Basically it has been confirmed they are down to my anxiety and stress I have been suffering with recently. It's something I hate to talk about, so am going to leave that here for now, but I am working on it, and will beat it!

So yeah, exercise, I will be going in a 3 mile walk tomorrow. The usual route whitmch I haven't done in almost a month due to my broken toe. I am going to try and jog some of it, but don't want to do any damage when I think it almost healed.

I do still plan on starting insanity soon, but don't think it would be wise for me to do insanity as my first workout in almost a month. Talk about killer!!! So I plan on starting it by the end of the week, early next week, all being well with my walk/jog tomorrow!

Hope you guys are all well, and feeling super super motivated today!
Ellie x