And so Monday arrives...

Back to work after a glorious week off ....

At least one minute into being back and it felt like I'd never been away .... Ah well, 2 more weeks, and I have another week off ... gotta love the Summer !

Yesterday DD wanted to go swimming again, so I duly obliged. Which means I have been swimming more in one week, than the previous 2 years put together ....

This evening, I am going to "hit the gym", albeit at a slow, sedentary pace.

10 mins - elliptical
10 mins - rower
10 mins - treadmill
Ab curls - 3 sets of 10 reps

And then .... the pool, and the sauna and steam room :)

Yesterday's food intake:

Coffee x 2, maybe 3 ? But I used less coffee in each drink, I've been using 2 spoons per mug, I used 1.
Squash x 2 pints
Water x 1 pint, and a 500 ml bottle
Lunch was HM garlic bread (2 slices of baguette), 3 slices of pizza (thin crust)
Dinner was lamb steak, cooked on the "health grill", with potato wedges (cooked in olive oil), served with savoy cabbage and carrots ....
Wine

I've told DH our immediate target is to cut the saturated fat and sodium levels.

I believe that by doing that, plus exercising, we ought to see a result pretty soon.

I've got to get back into the habit of cooking and exercising, as I know, that when I've managed to do that, the rest is pretty straightforward .... but, the habit forming is tough, so one day at a time is my motto.

Food today .....

Breakfast - low fat fig & date yoghurt with sunflower seeds

Lunch - not sure, but as we have no bread, I'm favouring the soup option. I have in the freezer both HM carrot with red lentil and leek and potato ... so one of those I feel.

Dinner - Now dinner is the toughie, and this is the one I need to play with ... if one of us is going to the gym, do we eat before or after, or separately ? Bearing in mind we have to cook for DD anyways.

I think for dinner tonight, I may just get some pork out of the freezer, chop up some veggies, and throw a low fat curry sauce over it, let it marinade, and shove it in the oven before I go, getting DH to do some rice, as I'm about to leave the gym.

If I need a snack before the gym, I need to think about that ... I have apples (they bore me), grapes, low fat yoghurt, bananas (really not keen on bananas!), so perhaps, not for today, but perhaps I need to look for healthy flapjack type of recipe.

And so my musing goes on ....