Today
began terribly. The wet weather is making my arthritis play up big time making
walking difficult and painful, I started getting bad stomach cramps whilst on
the coach into work (due no doubt to the lack of proper food over the last few
days), I fell over in the park on the way to work, grazing my knees, elbows and
hands and almost smashing my glasses (as well as giving my pride battering) and
to cap it all I had a nosebleed. And after that great start we were evacuated
from the building because of a fire drill. I fully expected it to rain again,
to really put a damper on things, but fortunately it stayed dry.
I
had no breakfast prepared because of my problem with facing food yesterday, and
so I had to go to the staff canteen for breakfast of scrambled egg, bacon and one
mushroom at an extortionate price. Aware that I would need to eat something at
lunchtime, but unable to care one way or another I had grabbed the first box I
came across in the freezer, which turned out to be moussaka, to which I added a
selection of green vegetables with butter (in a steamer bag).
However,
because I was feeling sorry for myself (which is a terrible excuse I know, but
sometimes you just can’t help it) I helped to celebrate a work colleague’s 40th
anniversary with a cake (a Krispy Kreme glazed ring donut to be precise, which
the helpful interwebs tell me is 36G of carbs!), which I was fully aware would
take me WELL over my carb count for the day – but at that moment I really didn’t
care.
Now I
know this isn’t really the right attitude, but I’ve just realised that I
haven’t had a single bar of chocolate, biscuit or cake etc. for fifty five days
now (which I think is pretty good going) and I don’t think one cake is going to
kill me in the great scheme of things. Also, I had my usual killer power plate
session in the evening, along with a decent swimming session, which must have helped
to deflect the ill effects somewhat.
And
I have to say that I really enjoyed it – although afterwards it did make me
feel rather drowsy and lethargic.
As
I didn’t get back from the gym until almost 10pm (my friend Karen and I spent almost an hour in the hot tub putting the world to rights - which was great for my poor bruised knees) I really wasn’t in the mood
for cooking (surprise surprise) and so I had (yep you guessed it) a raspberry
ripple protein shake and some prosciutto with a couple of Babybels.
Because
of the moussaka I would have been just over my limit for the day anyway even
without the donut, but I think I did pretty well to stop there.
Today’s
exercise: Power plate = 25 mins; Arm Bike = 10 mins; Bike =
5 mins; Swimming = 30 lengths
Carb's
Eaten: 66.1G
Exercising
to: Various swim tracks
Weight Loss = 1
stone and 2 pounds
Inch Loss = 12.5 inches
Mood: Hurting
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