And so it begins....

Day one again.  I finally feel well enough to start up again, not 100% but I'm sick of doing nothing, its not my style.

Yesterday was a poor effort on the food front - at my parents who seem allergic to doing any useful shopping.  Breakfast was the least rank breakfast cereal I could find wholewheat shredded wheats with semi skimmed milk.  Lunch was better, a cooked chicken breast, a boiled egg and some organic red and green salad leaves.  Dinner was one beef burger topped with cheese.... and that was it, I was so tired from driving that I couldn't be the least bit bothered to make a real dinner so I ate the burger Mr D made (sans bun) and had loads of cups of tea to ease my throat.

Today is a new day, breakfast has been ace: oatbran, organic whole milk, tsp of 4 seed mix, 100g strawberries, a probiotic multivit (still don't think these work and I miss my actimel) and a cup of green tea with jasmine.

The best bit is that I have my camera back so pictures will resume tonight and they won't be pretty.  I'm so annoyed at having been ill and losing all my fitness and muscle tone, I guess I've done this before so I'll do it again, it just blows to be back to square one again.

See you tomorrow.

No Progress

I might stop blogging until I'm well enough to exercise again because this isn't exactly making for inspiring reading right now is it?  I'm sure you can guess that no Jillian was done yesterday, I did walk home again though which was nice as te sun was out and I didn't get hailed on this time.  I also managed to do some cleaning and sorting of the house as someone is coming to value it this weekend.

Breakfast yesterday was the same, milk, oatbran, black grapes and 4 seed mix.  lunch was 2 slices (1/4) of the quiche I posted yesterday with a great big pile of iceberg lettuce. Snacks were the same as yesteday. Dinner was chicken and veg stir fry - no noodles and I wimped out of using the coconut oil but I'm having the same for tea tonight so I'll be brave and try it then.

Sorry for the lame posting, I'll have the camera back (and hopefully fulling fucntioning immune system) tomorrow and I'm re-starting RI30 on Monday so you'll be inundated with pictures then.

Calories: 1164/1520 (I know, I know)
5 A Day? grapes (1) 2 clementines (1) iceberg (1) quiche (1) stir fry (1 - at least) = 5.

When will it end?

I'm still ill, how is that even possible??  I've got a hen party this weekend and I have to be well before then, and with the wedding next weekend I need to be well enough to do Jillian, I'm practically getting withdrawls.

Food yesterday was good:

Breakfast was 40g Oatbran, about 70ml organic semi skimmed milk, 10g (heaped teaspoon) of 4 seed mix and 80g of organic black grapes.  Morning snack was a clementine and 4 almonds.  Lunch was shredded organic iceberg lettuce, a 2 inch piece of cucumber, 50g of shredded roast pork leftover from the weekend and one organic carrot.  Afternoon snack was another clementine and 4 almonds and a protein shake when i got in from work.  Dinner was a bowl of homemade minestrone (tin of tomatoes, one courgette, 2 carrots, one onion, 2 celery stick and 300ml of chicken stock) with 10g grated parmesan on top and a slice of bodyism rice crust quiche:

That was 270g cooked brown rice mixed with one egg white and pushed into the flan case and baked for 10 minutes, the filling is one large leek, half a head of broccoli, one onion, 3 eggs, 50g cheese 175ml milk and 4 slices of ham (all ingredients were organic) you add that to the case after its ten minutes baking and then cook for 40 minutes more - its delicious. (Recipe from Clean and Lean diet book by James Duigan).

So whilst I'm happy that yesterday was a good clean food day my calories were low and I need to try and improve that today!

Calories: 1059/1520
5 A day? Black grapes (1), 2 clementines (1), Salad (1), carrot (1) Minestrone Soup (at least 1) and that makes 5!

PMA!!!

So I've not been feeling great this weekend - so no blogs sorry.  I went into London on Friday for a bit of retail therapy but felt so crap (and didn't find anything I wanted - see I told you I was ill!) that we came back here and nipped in TK Maxx where I ended up buying a nike running vest and shorts, and a le creuset dish.  Rock and Roll.  Lunch was yo sushi and I can't remember what we had for tea - left over minestrone soup I think.

Saturday we stayed in, me sleeping on and off on the sofa whilst Mr D watched varying rugby games.  For lunch I made bodyism rice crust quiche which was lush actually so I'll be making another one of those soon for a bit of something different for lunch - and by then hopefully i'll have my camera back to show you my culinary skills.  Dinner was a disaster.  We tried to make satay pork with a carrot and apple salad but the dressing (fish sauce and lime) was hanging and the peanut topping for the pork just burnt under the grill!  We ended up leaving tea in the end as I felt too sick and Mr D was full of crisps.

Sunday I felt a bit better so I did roasted pork belly for lunch with some crushed new potatoes dressed in oil and lemon thyme (yum) and some sauteed cabbage, it was a Jamie Oliver recipe and totally awesome.  For dinner we finished off the quiche whilst we watched Titanic.  We also noticed that our shower is leaking AGAIN all over the living room ceiling so yesterday I attempted to seal it, hopefully it will last better than the builders attempts.

So yesterday we went into town, again I didn't buy anything other than a water filter and glass bottle to keep my filtered water in (taking this clean and lean stuff seriously!) then after being so annoyed at our house we went off to see a few new builds in the area.  One is in a lush location but is a bit small, the other is massive and amazing but I'm not so sold on the area... both are really expensive.....

And now back to the purpose of the diary.  Food lately has been rubbish and exercise non existant.  I'm going to try and ease myself back into it today by walking home and  then when I get back I might try some circuits if I feel up to it.  More than anything I want this cold or whatever it is to do one so I can re-start RI30 again, feels like a long time since I've done it.

Will check back in tomorrow. Promise.

Feeling like hell.

So this morning I've woken up and its as if my whole throat has closed up, swallowing is so painful so I've not attempted to eat anything and have just had a cup of green tea to start me off.

Food yesterday was good:  breakfast was as I said yesterday, oatbran, organic semi skimmed milk, about 10g 4 seed mix and half a punnet of graze tutti frutti for a bit of 5 a day action.  For lunch I did manage to have my bodyism wrap (Thanks Mr D!) and it was delicious, it was an outer leaf of iceberg lettuce spread with 15g of organic hummus, then 2 slices of turkey breast went on that and the whole thing topped with a 2" piece of cucumber, one large tomato, and half a yellow pepper...mmmmmm  after that I had 2 organic carrots.

No morning snack, but in the afternoon I had 8 almonds and a 1/3 of a graze flapjack when I got home.  Dinner was turkey stir fry made from 100g turkey breast strips, 1/3 pack of veg medley (baby corn, mange tout and broccoli) homemade sauce (made from soy, organic honey and rice wine) and 100g of fresh rice noodles - yum.

The only downer on the food side was that I didn't get anywhere near calories yesterday: 956/1520 I just hope its alright and that everything I ate on the weekend will sort of balance it out?

Obviously I did no exercise yesterday with feeling so rough and the bruising on my legs, and I doubt I'll be ready to do anything until that gets better, but i'll try my best.  In other news my camera was in that bar in Nottingham and my sister collected it for me so I'll be back taking pictures just as soon as I get it back!

Here is one that I've borrowed from facebook so you can see how I've been doing for the last week or so without taking any:

I think its clear there is still a really long way to go!  My thighs are massive and being 5'3 doesn't exactly help to make them look any smaller does it?

Calories: 956/1520
5 A Day? not sure if the graze counts, 2 in the wrap at lunch, carrot, and 2 in the stir fry so yes 5 all together.

17 day countdown

So I've been slack on the blog again, a combination of work, tiredness and a small trip away this weekend have meant I haven't been keeping you all up to date and I certainly haven't been doing Ripped in 30 or living clean or lean.

On Saturday I went on a Hen Weekend to Marbella, it was brilliant but I can't say I made good food choices or that I felt bad about it at the time!  I did manage to get a run in on the Sunday morning, but I've ended up with bruised knees on both legs at the side and one massive swollen bruise on just my left leg, will give running a bit of a rest and carry on with Jillian.  I'm worried about it a bit really, I know the half marathon isn't until October but I was really getting back into running again and now i'll have to wait for all the bruising to go down and then if it comes back it'll be another wait.....

Sorry it's a downer post today, I'm pretty tired after getting back from Spain, and getting back into work and eating right again.  Today has started ok, mug of green tea, a probiotic multi vitamin, oatbran, organic semi skimmed milk, 4 seed mix and half a punnet of graze tutti frutti.  Hopefully Mr D is bringing supplies for me so that I can make the bodyism wraps for lunch and dinner will be turkey stir fry, no rubbish is being consumed for the next 17 days so that I'm in good form for the wedding near the end of April - My dress is being taken in and it has to fit!!!

I'll check back in tomorrow and let you know how today goes.