Although I was still feeling a little achy, I dragged myself out of bed
this morning to make sure I got to the gym before the college girls. At 6.30am
I started my workout, and managed to do most of it without being held up by lack
of equipment, but the hand bike (which is my chance to sit down without
pedalling for a few minutes so is almost a rest) is broken and I had to use the
standing Arm bike instead which always gives me a backache. My foot was still
hurting (I still have no idea what I did to it) and half way through my second
bike session I could feel my knee playing up too, so I cut short the workout
and did a longer swim session instead as this puts less stress on my joints.
I have come to the conclusion that my ears are just too small for the
Splashgear’s headphones as I just can’t get them to stay on over my ears. I
have had more success with keeping the buds in my ear canal though. After another
frustrating swim yesterday (it’s very off-putting keep having to stop to put
the headphones back over my ears and the buds back into them at the end of every lap) I decided to have a
look at E-Bay to see if I could get some different waterproof headphones. There
were others which I may consider if I can’t get this ear thing sorted, but one
of the pairs I looked at explained that the buds stay in the ear better due to being
extra long. When I examined the accessories that came with my MP3 player I found some
extra long buds (strange that they weren’t fitted automatically). Having put
these on instead, there was a massive improvement – apart from the small ear
thing.
Breakfast was the same as yesterday, bacon, scrambled eggs, mushrooms
and tomatoes mainly because I wanted to use up the bacon, having forgotten last
week. Lunch was the usual mix of Babybel cheddars and prosciutto and some wafer
thin ham. I had intended to have leek, ham and blue cheese pie for dinner which
is a recipe from the IPD Cookbook that I made many times when I was following
this way of eating before, but when I did my now imperative ingredient count on
Fitday I discovered that this dish contains a whopping 24 grams of carbs per portion –
and that was using small leeks instead of the large ones specified. Even making
it four portions rather than the three stated still brings the carb count in at
18 grams per portion which is even higher than the moussaka.
To be fair none of the recipes in this book have been given an official
carb count so at least it isn’t intentionally misrepresenting the carb amount
like the other book, but I really can’t see how this dish can be easily fitted
into a diet where 30 grams of carbs is the maximum limit, unless you’re sticking to the
whey protein shakes or something for the other meals. Certainly there was no
way I could have the pie (and the buttered Savoy cabbage that goes with it)
after the cooked breakfast and so instead I had a sirloin steak in a creamy
mushroom sauce with a large mixed salad and creamy salad dressing and have
frozen the cooked pie in portions for later use on a day when I’ve carefully
worked out the carbs.
I have also been cooking pumpkin in readiness for making a pumpkin tart
- which amazingly not only has the same amount of carbs in my calculation as it
says in the book (although some of the other figures are way out), but also
contains over 7 grams of carbs less per portion than the leek, ham and blue
cheese pie!
With all this cooking I was still quite hungry after dinner and so had a
whey protein shake (velvety vanilla – which was okay but a bit boring for my
taste) which has successfully filled me up.
Today’s exercise: Bike = 10 mins; Stretching = 10 mins; Treadmill/weights = 10
mins; Cross Trainer = 10 mins; Standing Arm
Bike = 5 mins; Bike = 5 mins; Arc Trainer = 5 mins; Bike = 5 mins; Swimming = 30
lengths
Carb's Eaten: 25.3G
Exercising to: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by
J K Rowling read by Stephen
Fry
Weight Loss = 1 stone 1 pound
Inch
Loss = 7.5 inches
Mood: Tired and fed up
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