Day 26 of the holiday diet

After having such a naughty weekend I got up and did some yoga today (only about 10 mins) before the morning doggy walk then off to work. I've had exactly the same as yesterday for breakfast and dinner. I have to eat chicken for tea though and don't fancy it. I'm just about to search for some healthy chicken recipes.... I don't really have anything to go with it!! Any ideas?

OK so back to the good old itv diet recipes and I had this for tea:
http://www.itv.com/lorraine/lifestyle/real-bikini-diet/real-bikini-diet-recipes/dinners/super-sticky-chicky/

I maybe I didn't use the right measurements... it wasn't so sticky! I did however use a lemon with a sticker on it saying fanny!! I was a little amused.... Lemon fanny or Fanny's lemon?

Uh oh a few hours later and I was eating cereal for supper..... whoops a meal too many. The diet seems to be going further down the pan!!

Days 23, 24 & 25 of the holiday diet!

Friday night was good, no beers or even vodkas. Sat & Sun= bad!! Chips, chips, nachos, chilli, curry............. Beers

I am trying to redeem myself today by being a good dieter! That 20 mins of yoga also rendered me useless, I was barely able to move my arms or legs for 2 days. Must do that again.

Breakfast: 2 hard boiled eggs on tiny brown toast.

Dinner: tiny brown bun with a slice of beef, mustard and salad.

Banana, nectarine and 70 cal crisps.

Tea: prawn & veg stir fry with rice.

I'm too scared to stand on the scales today, I might even have some bean soup for supper on the hope that it creates a colonic irrigation effect again!!

Day 22 of the holiday diet

Weight check this morning shows some progress, I've lost 5/6 lbs in 3 weeks. It seems like slow progress but I never really cut out the beer, but let's face it, when I get to my holiday destination I'll probably have ordered a beer before I get my bikini out. I'm sure I would do better if I cut out the beer but then I would balloon up on my hols anyway!! Let's keep it realistic! I have decided that my weight goal is 8 stone, I'm hoping that this results in me being a comfortable size 10. I've noticed that my regular jeans are feeling a bit loose, my slouchy jeans are a bit too slouchy now. The jeans I bought that I could barely fasten are feeling less of a squeeze but still create a muffin top (not pleasant) I know that some toning up is needed *dread*.

I've downloaded a free daily yoga app and have managed 20 mins of yoga without too much of a drama, no falling over or falling asleep, slight ache in the arms. I opted for a green tea with lemon too (still had a wake up coffee), lets not pretend that this is going to last, it's Friday!!

Breakfast: 1 bacon medallion with grilled tomatoes in a brown breakfast muffin.

Dinner: ham and low fat hummus wrap & packet of skips.

Tea: pesto pasta (50g pasta) with a tomato and mozzarella salad and some lettuce..... Still craving a bit of meat tho!

Cuppa tea and a kitkat.

Day 21 of the holiday diet

So, 3 weeks of occasional healthy eating, still consumed too many beers. I will weigh myself tomorrow to discover the very likely non-change in my weight!! Woops. I've, so far, also developed no motivation for physical activity, one could say I couldn't even bring myself around to even trying. Still the holiday will still go ahead in approximately 3 months, plenty of time to do better.

Breakfast: scrambled eggs on small brown toast. Coffee with skimmed milk.

Dinner: ham and low fat hummus wrap.... I even down graded the size of my wrap to a weight watchers one?! I do prefer a big seeded one tho.


Tea: pasta (50g) with a home made tomato, mushroom and spinach sauce. I had a big bag of tomatoes that needed to be used so opted for another meat-less day, half way through eating it though I remembered yesterday's meat cravings. Maybe I'll have a nice slab of beef this weekend, yummy or lamb even!


Ok so the other half fancied a beer, so I had one (well I actually had 2).

Day 20 of the holiday diet

Breakfast: brown breakfast muffin with 2 bacon medallions, mushrooms and a coffee with skimmed milk.

Dinner: tuna salad with low fat dressing. Half a tin of spicy bean soup.

Apple. Coffee. 85 cal crisps.

Tea: mackerel with broccoli, boiled egg and potato salad (made with 100g tatties, a spoon of creme fresh, low fat salad cream and spring onions.


I want a big mac tho!! I don't actually ever eat big macs but since starting to eat more healthily I am craving one!! I feel that I'll have to have one to get it out of my head, but not today. Woooo I also got a lovely pair of shoes delivered today!

..... Oh dear, my craving for meat took me to the shop. I ended up with a bowl of some frosted wheat cereal with probably too much sugar in but mo meat. And since the footy is on there is now a beer in front of me. I thought it was all going so well.

Day 19 of the holiday diet

Wooooop did you see the lovely sunshine today? I want to say that spring is on it's way in but it'll probably snow in March!

Breakfast: 1 bacon medallion, 1 fried egg (tiny drop of oil) in a brown breakfast muffin.

Dinner: tuna salad with mixed beans and low fat dressing. Eaten at my desk!

Tea: cottage pie made with quorn mince, I followed this recipe, but with half the amount of potato:

http://www.quorn.com/recipes/Quorn_Cottage_Pie.

It was surprisingly tasty for a non-meat pie! I had it with some spring greens.

Day 18 of the holiday diet

Dear food diary,

I have been a bingeing, pig out, naughty, eyes bigger than my belly girl. The weekend involved pizza, beer, wine and gloriously fried eggy bread. There was an "oh no I have no food left, only pizza.... 2 of them" moment on Saturday. This was rectified on Sunday but only after having no breakfast, and raging my trolley around Tesco trying to pick up healthy things when all I wanted to do was gnaw on a tiger bread loaf or stick my face in a custard slice. I am one of those people who are annoyingly irrational and grumpy when I'm hungry, so put together hungry, rag week and hungover and I become a venomous witch.

I've also been considering ways to motivate myself into exercise (obviously just lying on the sofa in a pondering like manner) I was looking at those shoes that tone your legs and bum, shape ups, but the only ones I can find come in absolutely hideous colours and they are massive like Spice Girl shoes! Maybe if they were just one colour (like black and not shocking pink, or silver) I could consider walking the dog in them, I would still worry about bumping into anyone I knew incase they witnessed the ugly shoes. I couldn't go to a gym because there are other people there, eeeew sweaty people in fact. I have a wii fit, Xbox kinect, yoga DVDs, gym ball (deflated), weights and a skipping rope, I even had some machine that also acted as a clothes hanger..... All of this potential to become a fitness fanatic yet no motivation! I don't even have a pair of trainers! I do walk about a mile to the metro to go to work, and walk my cutie dog and take the stairs to the third floor; is that enough?

Today's food stuffs:
Breakfast: scrambled eggs on toast (2 eggs, skimmed milk on tiny brown bread)

Grapes, banana and a packet of skips.

Dinner: ham sarnie with salad and a dollop of low fat salad cream.

Tea: stir fried veg, prawns and rice.

I've also had 1 coffee and 1 tea. I'm also not going to weigh myself now until Friday.