21 days and i'm running 10miles!

the end of "the best a/l week ever" - wonderful w/e in Hove & Brighton.

OF&H doing okay...

Bernie looked through my food diary and pointed out where i could have lost some lbs if i hadn't of blah blah blah... fair enough. I'll go back to a pint of diet coke with a shot of vodka as my tipple of choice.

food wise this w/e has been okay with lots of top tips from Bernie - so feeling quite positive for Thursday weigh in this week - It'll be interesting to see how i do.

we went to the gym Saturday afternoon - great workout - wasn't sick but was absolutely knackered.

and now it's Sunday and it's back to work tomorrow. 
I've cooked extra tea so i have left overs for lunch and after my evening mtg tomorrow I'll cook up a big tune/pasta bake so I've got lunches for a few more days. 

I'm going to give fat club a solid 6 months.

24 days to the debies 10mile (and lost 1lb @ fat club)

what a day!

• Running school this morning -and guess what... I'm getting fitter!
• M&S for a bra fitting - OMG - Rita is a goddess - my new bra is sooooooooooooo comfy
• John Lewis - bought a kindle touch & case for it with integrated light
• full body massage - lovely
• home & played on my kindle
• fat club - lost a 1lb
• home - done all my ironing

and now??
yet more wall to wall NFL - the draft is nearly here and I'm very excited!

today's food diary...

breakfast - usual cereal, chopped fruit, yogurt and skimmed milk plus cup of tea.

loads of water

lunch - grilled chicken and salad - rocket, mange touts, cucumber, peppers, spring onions then yogurt

didn't have an afternoon snack

supper - lemon chicken stir fry - with spring onions, mange touts and mushrooms with rice

second supper - ate rest of the lemon chicken.

25 days to the denbies 10mile

OMG - i am having the best A/L EVER!
today:-

• hair cut
• nfl network/podcasts - so excited for the upcoming draft
• @ the gym 2.30pm, muts joined at 3pm.
• shopping 4pm - M&S then cup of tea.
• john  lewis - bought fab new door stop, muts bought scales & new shoes (in dune)
• cycled up to p&k's - supper & checked out k's kindle.
• home by 9.45pm - yet more nfl.

FAB!!!

food diary:-
breakfast - usual cereal, chopped banana, apple & plum but then had x2 rashes bacon, tomatoe & mushrooms with a cup of tea.

mid morning snack - slice of ham

lunch - finished the quorn mince and rice with a huge handful of curly kale and x2 rahes bacon. fat free activo snackpot - raspberry flavour (yummy)

eeek still peckish - x2 slices wholemeal toast & marmite

cycled (3miles) up to p&k's for supper - approx 20 pastachio nuts, glass of quash. 1.5 jacket potatoes, quorn bacon/onions/mushrooms & handful cheese, cucumber & tomatoes. plain choc-ice ice cream. x3 glasses of white wine

squash & water.

26 days to the denbies 10mile

day 2 of A/L - lovely.
have laid most of my new turf on my balcony, had a cup of tea over at red hot press, food shopping, loads of nfl draft stuff and the ntea with k&s. what a fab day.

cycled 5miles

food diary:-

breakfast
usual fat club bfast - 35g luxury fruit museli, chopped fruit, milk & yoghurt plus cup of tea

lunch
left overs from last night - quorn mince/rice & yoghurt

afternoon tea
cup of tea @ RHP

snack
x2 wholemeal bread - toast & marmite
slice of ham & cottage cheese

supper @ k&s's
delicious salad
fresh pasta & pesto
fancy co-op garlic round flat bread
x3 glasses white wine spritzer

snack
ham & cottage cheese

lots of water & squash.

27 days to the denbies 10mile. Day 3 of fat club - food diary

ok...

23/4/12 food diary:-

breakfast

• 35g luxury fruit museli
• chopped up - x1 banana, x1 apple, x1 plum
• lots of natural yoghurt
• skimmed milk - part of allowance.

this is alot of breakfast.
i'm now not so worried about not having enough to eat 1st thing in the morning.

met Rose at pret for elevensies - tea with milk
then finished the rice & quorn for lunch

afternoon tea... eeeeeeeeeek.
it's Timmie's bday today and i popped over to say hi. everything was going so well, just drinking diet coke - but then Timmie offered me some of his freshley made luxury choclate cake made by Rosario. it was death by chocolate. totally and utterly delicious. my slice was quite large. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek

supper

• quorn mince with taco seasoning, passante, mushrooms, onion, carrots, corgette, wild rice & creme fresh.
• banana & 200g custard

my monday's slight fat club errors=

1. creme fresh
2. custard
3. luxury chocolate chocolate cake

exercise?

• cycling up to portswood and back.
• i'm now way too full to go to the gym.

i'll be running the denbies 10mile in 28 days!

i had a clear out of my cupboards, getting rid of all non fat club items. i'm waiting for goergie to come round for breakfast as she's taking all the tins/packets away.

i had a quick run yesterday - quite knackered... the 10miles is going to be interesting.

food diary for saturday 21/4/12

• 113g lidls luxury fruit mueseli & oats
• 150ml skimmed milk
• x2 slices american volkorn sandwich bread (all they had in the garage last week)
• 18g lurpak spreadable
• marmite
• tea with 50ml skimmed milk

drank alot of water through the day

• quorn mince with peas/corgettes & mashed potatoes - i think all fat club but made last w/e before i'd joined.

this is where i had a slight "error". saw hunger games but when i got back i was v.hungrey so had x5 oat cakes with cottage cheese & sliced tomoatoes. if you know fat club - 1 oat cake = 3syns (you can have up to 15 syns in a day) needless to say i've put the box of oat cakes into goergie's food bag!

supper - was yummy but again not hugely fat club. rice/quorn and sliced corgettes - but i used my jar of korma sauce (500g - i must have eaten half)  so cooked the quorn chunks in the korma sauce with slices of corgette on top. was very lovely but probs not brilliant for fat club...

but feeling positive.
i'm off work this week so will be able to bed in my change of diet...

i think breakfast will be the hardest to change as i've been having cereal/toast and copious cups of tea for years...


Sunday 22/4 - food so far...

• banana x1
• apple x1
• green tea and jasmin tea
• 2 quorn sausages, 1 tomatoes, mushrooms, potatoes, x2 slices toast & marmite
• half of the left over korma quorn, corgettes & rice
• bowl of luxury fruit museli/milk & natural yoghurt
• 72g bag of salted popcorn
• a curly wurly
• x2 slices of ham with cottage cheese and rocket leaves
• lots of squash & water

maybe i need to pop to the gym...
***which i did!***

31 days to the denbies 10mile

FYI - i will be walking quite alot of the denbie's 10mile. luckily it's all over the beautiful surrey hills so i'm rather looking forward to my 3hour walk/jog.

running school lesson #3 was on monday and i've got lesson #3 next thursday at 10am. loving it. wasn't so absolutely and utterly knackered and wanting to throw up as i was last time which is great cos it means i'm getting some of my fitness back.

and i signed up to slimmers world this evening.
we're now on lbs watch...

NB - i'd like to lose forty two of them!

i've got a busy month of OF&H ahead.

day 36 of 75 - running school lesson #2

2nd running school lesson.
omg.
thought i was going to throw up. felt like i was in boot camp, or training to be a navy seal or that scene in band of brothers when ross lets the new recruits eat spagetti then makes them run up the hill - they're all puking. i felt like that. really did think i was going to die! should have probs done some h/w last week and mabes gone for a few runs...
will def be doing some running this week.

so i'm kicking my heels up better so i'm not falling so far forward i'm slowing myself down. instead i'm now propelling myself forward cos i'm running - ok i'm not going to be able to explain this right. instead of falling over while i run i'm now using gravity to propell me forward. paul (teacher) made it sound obvious, i however just sound like a blathering idiot.

and then he started working on my arms. right angles and pumping. feel really wierd. but def helped my running.

lesson #3 is next monday.
am on 1st name terms with the running shop (sweatshop) staff. looking more +ve for the denbies 10mile in 39 days. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek.

day 29 of 75 - 1st running school session

okay...
i'm definately back.

• i've had my 1st lesson at the running school - got 5 more to go and i feel fabulous. did lots of running - in bursts of 20-30seconds.
• apparently i use my calves loads so need to start using pretty much every other muscle in my body. this 1st lesson concentrated on making sure i kicked my heels up more. quite knackering. but by the end i was def kicking up heels more. you could tell i was lighter on my feet by the end of the session, couldnt hear my feet slapping / thumping down on the treadmill so much.
• dripping with sweat.
• great workout.

lesson #2 is next wednesday. i've got some h/w to do - a couple of outside runs for 15mins and to focus on making sure i kick up my heals.

and my knee is fine.

hoorah!!!

http://www.runningschool.co.uk/locations/southampton/about-us/