Day 5

‘Woke up this morning feeling fineee’ – Easter weekend! To me, this means family time, which does often mean over indulgence in fine foods. I’ve been good today though, promise!!

Breakfast

Same as the last few days…

• 2 slices of toast and honey
• A brew!

Lunch

The salad has been restocked which means one happy person right here. It’s actually a good job I love salad and veg or it would be so much more difficult for me to eat healthily. I’m finding it surprisingly easy at the minute (touch wood!) but eating the right foods and learning what to eat is really helpful. Today for lunch I wasn’t particularly hungry as I had a later breakfast than usual, so I had a ham wrap with tomato, cucumber, spinach (controversial but I actually really like it – just call me Popeye!) and a little red onion. I followed this with a Twinings, just for a change, you know? (heavily loaded with sarcasm, sorry!)

Exercise

Today was the first day I had to exercise with people actually in the house. Wow. Very early on in the day I made it known that while I was exercising, NO ONE was allowed to be in the same room. So that how it happened really, easy as pie (I wish there was pie…)

I was quite shocked at the workout today… jumping lunges?! Is that even a thing?! Apparently so, and it hurt – good pain of course. The running section was also a little longer today and boy could my calves tell it.

It was a ‘day off’ for the plank challenge today. I’m not sure if I agree that that’s a good thing or not but I’m trusting it for now.

As the evenings are lighter it’s easier to get out for an evening walk, and as it wasn’t raining that’s just what I decided to do. There’s a little circular walk near to me that takes about 45 minutes, and is less than 2 miles. It’s so nice to be out in the fresh country air and doesn’t feel like I’m actually exercising. But luckily for me, it counts!

Tea

Ok, I’m making no apologies for this but it had to be another Hairy Bikers meal. As its Good Friday, we would usually have fish and chips. But not today! My healthy weapon of choice today was a meal I’d been excited to try for a while: Cod, wrapped in Parma ham, served on a bed of roasted vegetables and sprinkled with parmesan cheese. De-li-cious! Once again, low calorie, all natural food, yet so satisfying. Good work, Si and Dave!

Because I’d been so good with food all day I decided that in Good Friday tradition I was allowed a couple of hot cross buns for pudding. I mean it would have been rude not to really. And because of that extra walk, I then sat in bed with a guilt free Baileys on the rocks and enjoyed a wild Friday night with Netflix.