Day 2

Waheyy I made it to day 2! Woke up this morning to horrible weather; rain, wind, hail and snow! It’s supposed to be March?! I don’t know about you, but when the weather is a bit grim it really affects my mood, what I eat and what I choose to do with my day. So I’ll admit I nearly caved at breakfast time. But it wasn’t as bad as it could have been, so it’s all good! I am also trying to increase my water intake instead of snacking throughout the day, and so far it seems to be working.

Breakfast

I looked through the cupboards for something nice to eat, but then I remembered the 3 chocolate crispie cakes I ate after tea last night and went straight back to the fruit drawer. I really didn’t feel like fruit this morning, so instead this is what I ate:

•         2 slices farmouse white toast with unsalted, light, Lurpak
•         A cuppa tea with semi-skimmed milk! (This will probably be here every morning…)

Lunch

For lunch today I was going to make a ham salad, but then I saw a portion of the Hairy Bikers Chicken Biryani was left over from last night, and I hate seeing food go to waste. I ate it cold as I didn’t fancy hot food – doesn’t always seem right on a lunch time does it? So this wasn’t a very interesting lunch but I ate it anyway…

•          1 portion Hairy Bikers Chicken Biryani
•         1 Alpen Light cereal bar (lemon drizzle flavour, tasted like cheesecake, yum.)
•          1 Twinings Salted Caramel green tea

Even just the smell of those Twinings green teas is enough to satisfy any unhealthy craving at the minute, which is a pleasant surprise!

Exercise

This is the impressive part. I did a workout 2 days in a row. I’m impressed to say the least. I did the second day of the 30 day challenge as mentioned in my previous post, and it was much tougher than the first one! It had a lot more lunges involved in it, and though it’s a low intensity workout, for someone who hasn’t exercised properly in a while it was pretty tough going. I also burnt off 150 calories in this workout which is a good start. I think I’m going to ache tomorrow – no pain no gain though, right?!

Also did the plank challenge – all about that core!! 30 seconds today, told you it ramped up quickly.

Tea

For tea tonight we had:

•         Steak – with onion gravy
•          Mash
•          Broccoli
•          1 Kit Kat to finish with

A good old meat, carbs and veg – a simple, yet balanced meal. Nothing exciting but does the job I guess.

I finished the day off with a Twinings green tea before bed. Happy times.