Hurrah!!!!!
After the disappointment of last week I am very pleased to report that I have lost 4lbs this week :)
Last week I resolved to go right back to basics and I did. I stuck hard and fast to the basic eating guidelines and combined with a decent amount of exercise I hope that I have put myself back on track. I find it really difficult when I get set backs, but the support of the F2F group has been fab, both Chris Lupton & Chris Mackay and of course the other fab ladies sweating it out with me, so I advise anyone who is struggling to stick with it.
Thankfully it is not all beige*, there have been some flashes of colour in the food department this week.
(*by beige I mean no 'fun' food)
After searching the web for Paleo inspired dishes I happened upon some baking recipes, you can guess what's coming next..... after a visit to the shops and ingredients duly bought I revved up my baking mojo and made some truly delicious Carrot and Banana muffins.
I used some of my work colleagues as guinea pigs (pigs being the operative word here) and they loved them! So much so that I had to box them up so they didn't eat them all :)
Flushed with my initial success, the remainder of the muffins were taken to F2F and proved equally as popular, I decided to try a cookie recipe. This one included raw honey (how expensive!?!?) and although once again they were popular with the people at work, I wasn't so keen. Bit too much honey taste for me and also too much walnut flavour, I prefer pecans. They did look good though :)
Another bonus this week was the gluten free sausages that Ashlea and her husband raise and sell. Obviously they don't raise sausages, but you know what I mean. Check out Hole House Farm on Facebook if you're interested, I promise you they are the best sausages I have ever eaten (and believe me I've eaten plenty).
Having missed F2F on Friday as I was at choir practice I hit the gym with renewed vigor on Saturday and Sunday and got proper hot and sweaty. Cardio followed by resistance and abs, I am a machine. A slow, ploddy, wobbly machine but a machine either way ;) After wheezing away on the rowing machine on Saturday my hands hurt (aaawww) so I decided it was time to get out the gym gloves. Very grand and professional you might say, a necessity I say. When you have hands like mine that are dainty and delicate (!) then you have to do all you can to protect them, as a result I own a pair of gloves that I use when lifting weights and repetitively pulling on handles etc. Well the gloves were out on Sunday, and thankfully so. After 15 mins on the x-trainer and 3000m on the rowing machine my poor hands would have been hurting and blimey I might even start developing callouses (urgh).
I think I will take them along to F2F this week just in case I need to get a firm grip on something ;)
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