Sunday, 14 October 2012

Gloves at the Gym??

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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