My strategies are to walk and swim as much as I can.
To eat sensibly and not nibble or snack too much on junk or wasted calories.
To reduce my wine intake, maybe 4 glasses of wine a week.
To reduce sugar and simple carbs
To diary everything I eat and drink including gum and mints
I will not log everything here normally but will for today as it was a good day and I want to write it down to see it and use it for a comparison.
7am: Green tea with a slice of lemon, a few cups (made with the one teabag and topped up)
Smoothie with an apple, a benecol yogurt drink, spinach and some vitamins/supplements and topped up with water
9.30am: Two slices of sourdough bread with half a mashed avocado and a poached egg (it was supposed to be brown soda bread but someone took it to work)
Peppermint tea, about two cups
12noon: a 3.5km walk in wellies through fields
2 sugar free polo mints
2pm: Homemade chunky veg broth with onions, peppers, carrots, leeks, celery, courgette, baby potatoes and chorizo, I had two bowls with 6 small wheat crackers each with a scraping of cottage cheese
6pm: Swim 20 lengths (20 metre pool)
Half a Nakd Cheeky berry bar
7.30: Stir fry made with half a chicken breast, stir fry veg, Konjac noodles and soy sauce. I used as full pack of noodles and shared with darling husband so we had about 100g of the Konjac noodles each
Peppermint tea and the rest of the berry bar.
I don’t plan on having a walk and a swim every day but the opportunity arose today and I took it.
