Made it to the gym this morning, but still feeling half fatigued for
some reason so I didn’t go for the full work out times, although I did try to
do a bit on each machine. This was followed by a trip to Asda
where I stocked up on food including the ingredients for a beef stew (yep I’m
definitely going to use that slow cooker this week, finally!)
Although I’m not supposed to have carrots as they are too carby for
phase one I decided that one medium carrot split between four portions of stew
weren’t going to kill, so that too will be going into it along with some
butternut squash, onions, mushrooms and a little red wine. It’s making my mouth
water just thinking about it. I was a bit naughty and bought some raspberries
(because they were reduced), but I really fancied them and have split them over
two days to diffuse the impact of such high carbs slightly. I also bought a
nice piece of beef so I can make a roast dinner, with celeriac dauphinoise
instead of potatoes.
Last night I was going for a meal before heading off to the cinema and
so I spent quite a lot of time downloading and studying nutritional information
for various restaurants (yep I really am that sad these days). Having got over
the shock that a super salad from Zizzi was 61g of carbs! (Yes, really – and
no, I have absolutely no idea how they can make salad that carby), I soon
realised that there was no point in looking. Everything from the sort of places
we were likely to be eating were going to be huge carb-wise and, if you were
calorie counting (which of course I’m not), enough to make you cry. Franchise
restaurants really do not cater for those who are low-carbing (or dieting in
general, I guess), so I decided to take the sensible approach of just having
what I wanted and not worrying about it.
However, once we arrived at Pizza Express I changed my mind about
getting what I wanted (which would have been a pizza) and instead went for a
salad. They do a fabulous salad containing warm garlic mushrooms,
baby mozzarella, avocado, roasted tomatoes, baby spinach, rocket and balsamic
syrup, honey & mustard dressing. If I’d been feeling really virtuous I’d
have skipped the dressing as it is quite high carb, but I’d already sacrificed
the accompanying dough sticks (I did have one, the other three I gave to Mrs
H3) and the cheesy garlic bread that we would usually have had as a starter and
so I decided to have the dressing. Unfortunately, although Pizza Express do
publish the calories for their food, like most places they don’t feel the need
to say how many carbs it is so I couldn’t work it out. I decided to log it as
20g because of the dressing. I don’t think that would be too far off.
When we go to the cinema we usually
also have a Ben and Jerry ’s Ice Cream and, quite often, a Tango Ice Blast
(I think it’s quite easy to see why I’m overweight with the stuff I used to eat
on a regularly occurring night out). I did seriously consider an ice cream (one
scoop rather than the usual two with chocolate sauce and chocolate pieces and
nuts) and had looked up the carb count of my favourite, Chunky Monkey (31g per
serving if you’re interested) just in case I decided to go for it. Whilst I
really was quite eager, Mrs H3 managed to talk me out of it and instead I had
two extra strong mints during the film, which whilst not helping the count for
the day meant I’d had 27g less than if I’d succumbed to the banana goodness.
(Late again – Breaking Dawn
this time)
Today’s exercise: Bike = 10 mins; Stretching = 10 mins;
Treadmill/weights = 10 mins; Cross Trainer = 10 mins; Arm bike = 12
mins; Bike = 5 mins; Arc Trainer = 5 mins; Stretching = 10 mins; Swimming = 20
lengths
Carb's Eaten: 43.8G
Exercising to: Harry Potter Phoenix
Weight Loss = 1 stone and 2 pounds
Inch Loss = 12.5 inches
Mood: Feeling quite
virtuous (considering)
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