100 Healthy Days Day Three: Temptation Wins Every Time

My gosh, if I don’t start taking this seriously I may as well give up before it begins. CHOCOLATE, AGAIN today. I bought a bar of dark chocolate today with the intention of breaking it up to make clean eating banana cookies. However, after lunch one of the girls asked if I had any chocolate so I ended up sharing it out and ate a lot of it myself. I need to get serious.

Today was International Sweatpants Day, so we all wore a tracksuit to work, which was nice. To celebrate this momentous occasion, we did yoga in work which was fun.

Other than that I have had no exercise today, however I might go in awhile. I came home to blog and food prep as I have been getting back from the gym so late on other days.

Food today, other than chocolate, was a banana pancake for breakfast and I added almond milk today which was nice. I also had a glass of coconut milk as I’m really finding it to be a good energy boost. I had a carrot for a snack, lunch was a bean and pepper salad wrapped in rice paper with a few potatoes and dinner was potatoes and a beet burger.

I ate far too many potatoes. In general, I actually think I’m eating too much. So I’m going to try and figure this out over the next few days and see how I get on. I also think I should start taking progress pictures, even though I hate them.

My photos are a disaster as my camera phone is poor, but I feel really stupid bringing my proper camera to work and snapping everything I eat, more so because I hate explaining to everyone what I’m doing. There mostly German so it would probably be really strange to them, “I want to lose weight so I’m photographing what I eat”, maybe I should stop caring.

100 Healthy Days- Day Two: Me Vs the Mouse

Day two of 100 Healthy Days just started off on the wrong foot. We have a mouse problem in my apartment, or so my housemate informed me last week.

I was quite happy to ignore this fact, until yesterday morning when I went to do food prep for the day and I heard the little bugger rustling around in the paper bin. So, making as much noise as possible I turned on the lights and the radio and went for a shower thinking “that’ll scare him off”.

Alas, this was not the case. I came back into the kitchen to find him sitting pretty on top of the oven. Que me screaming and legging it out of the kitchen. THAT scared the mouse off but of course there wasn’t a hope in hell of me food prepping now, let alone using the oven for anything.

Reluctantly I quickly made lunch, and happily had a dinner in the fridge prepared from the weekend. A bad omen I think for the day to come.

Actually, I was pretty good with my diet apart from two chocolate sweets. Two more than I was supposed to have.

Exercise consisted of my gym workout programme which was set by one of the trainers and a run interval session on the treadmill. My training is tailored to suit me as I am training for some big races so there’s no point in me sharing these as they won’t suit anyone else. However, if you’re really interested please ask.

My food today was three rice cakes and a banana for breakfast, red grapes for a snack, a bean and tuna salad for lunch, and a black bean burger for dinner.

 

100 Healthy Days, Day One

100 Healthy Days

Day one of 100 healthy days,and bar the giant spoonful of Nutella which I couldn’t resist, the day went very well. For the first time this year, I’m really feeling fantastic. This is more so down to the fortnight of no alcohol and relatively healthy eating combined with a restful weekend, rather than one good day today.

I’m under no illusion of how hard this is going to be and the dedication it will take. For one thing, as someone who blogs professionally for a living (yes, a paid job in blogging I know!!), coming home after a long day at work at on the gym to blog some more is horrendous. However, it’s all part of this challenge. It would be all too easy to say “Ah, I’ll do it tomorrow”, which in turn would mean skipping days and falling out of routine.

Today’s meals were pretty good, pictured below, and exercise consisted of a 45 minute strength and toning routine followed by 35 minute treadmill.

So, for today I’ll keep it short and sweet. There are a lot of topics which are worth exploring over the course of the next 99 days, but for now, pictures will have to say their 1000 words because I’m pooped.

As always, if you want to know the ingredients of anything, just ask. However, I usually just make it up as I go along depending on what I have in.

As well as the food, I drank two mugs of hot lemon, two mugs of berry tea and about 2.5 litres of water throughout the day.

I promise not all posts will be this boring. In work, I write on average 2500/3000 words per day so my creativity will only stretch so far.

Thanks for reading, much love x

Breakfast- Banana Pancake with Yogurt and Berries

Carrots and Cucumber Snack

Lunch Tuna and Bean Mixed Salad

Oat and Blueberry Muffin for Lunchtime Tea Snack

Dinner Vegetable Rice Curry

Picked this up in the supermarket, it helped with the dizziness after training. I’m not even sure what it is and it is kinda gross but it’s only small and did the job

100 Healthy Days, Day 0

So it’s the eve of my 100 Healthy Days challenge and I have done some food prep for the week, as well as a training diary. I plan to eat as clean as possible, with a few clean treats thrown in which I will mix up with some triathlon and gym training. Also, having decided to abstain from meat and alcohol for as long as possible, it will be interesting to see how the combination of everything works. One thing I won’t be giving up however, is hot chocolate; I adore it.

I have a busy few months ahead, with visitors coming, going travelling, going to gigs, so this has come at the right time. Clean eating will mean higher energy levels to ensure I have the strength for all this stuff. Usually, with haemochromatosis and an underactive thyroid, one busy week would wipe me out completely for the next week.

Another thing I have signed up to is a 12 month HSM…Hello Sunday Morning, which means I have pledged to give up alcohol for twelve months… I am two weeks in. I will explain the ins and outs of Hello Sunday Morning later. For now, I just wanted to write a short introduction.

Also, I will explain why I have decided to do this challenge at another stage. It is Sunday, I am tired, and I blog professionally for a living, so it doesn’t appeal to me to start writing a long post as Monday morning looms. I am going to watch “Wild”, which the description says is “A chronicle of one woman’s 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent catastrophe”, seems fitting.

To begin, here is a photo of my breakfast and dinner today. Banana Pancake and Fish Curry. If you want recipes, let me know but mostly I make things up as I go along. Apologies for the poor quality photos, my phone has not got a great camera, I will be using my proper camera from now on.

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday x

 

Breakfast: Banana Pancake with LF Yougart and Berries

 

Dinner: Fish Curry