Eats, punchbags and bikinis
Mood:  happy
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Woo hoo - I finally managed a good day of eating. And you know what - it wasn't that hard! I even had ice cream! So why can't I do it every day? Of course I know one reason I don't manage it every day - going out. If I had no social life, I would be much slimmer :-) Tomorrow I am having lunch with my ex-boss and going out to in-laws for dinner, so the chances of repeating today's good eats are slim.

Anyway here's what I had today:

Breakfast: Cottage cheese, strawberries, blueberries, 1 tsp sugar, macadamia nuts

Morning snack: Weight watchers fromage frais with peach.

Lunch: wrap with mexican chicken, salsa, salad and 25g tortilla chips. Yum.

Afternoon snack: Milkshake with extra skimmed milk powder to up the protein.

Dinner: Chicken in tomato sauce, potatoes, carrots. Mars bar ice cream.

See, when I write it all down like that it doesn't sound that great, but it came out as 1385 cals, 49.4% carbs, 26.6% protein, 24% fat. That's pretty close to my target of 50/25/25 so I'm a happie bunnie :-)

Sadly I didn't make it to the gym today as there was a slight backlog of phone calls to return, emails to read and general catching up to do after our week off. I'm going to go tomorrow morning and do upper body weights and either lower body weights or a run - depends how the foot is feeling. It's more or less completely better now, but still giving me some twinges.

Exciting news - I have ordered a punch bag!!!!! After much searching we decided the whole waterproof thing wasn't really going to happen, so we just went for a freestanding and reasonably solid one. The plan is to keep it in the garden in summer, covered with a tarpaulin to keep the wet off, and store in the shed in winter. Hopefully that will work. Can't wait to get it set up and start pounding away. We have a really annoying kid next door who is forever playing in the garden and banging his football off the fence. Just wait till I get out there beating up my new bag with my heavy rock gym mix on full blast. That will drown his noise out :-)

Also today, I went slightly insane and signed up for a "bikini challenge" on Weight Loss Resources. Someone posted on the message boards that she would pledge to take a photo in a bikini on August 31 and asked others to join in. I rashly signed up. There's absolutely no good reason I can't shift the half stone I want to by then and hopefully the idea of putting photos of myself in a bikini ON THE INTERNET will be good motivation! Today I got Dave to take a few pics of me so I can compare them to the "after" ones. Hopefully the "after" ones will be much less flabby and with much better arm dents :-) And no, there's absolutely no chance of today's photos making it onto this blog :-)