The Year of the Gav - Day 8

Hey day a Weigh day!

Current weight 15st 6.
Lost 2lb!

Breakfast: Cereal and a black coffee

Lunch: You guessed it, simple salad with some tuna and The Sun crossword.

Dinner: mixed Mediterranean vegetables with a haddock fillet, creme fraiche and a wedge of lemon

Maybe it was down to the work that I had put in, maybe it was 30 minutes jogging I had just completed or maybe it's just your body's natural impulsion to fluctuate by a couple of pounds at different times of the day but at my first weigh in I had lost 2lbs. 

A step in the right direction. Monday weigh in: 15st 6 - lost 2 pounds. Not bad in a week. Might have been more if I had started jogging last week, as I thought I would, Oh! and I did have a massive slice of cheesecake!

I have started my running program again. I thought I might be able to jump right back into it, however the Wife suggested that I start from the beginning and see how it goes. She was correct, it was a bit harder than I had anticipated. I must admit I have missed running around the local park in the pouring rain. It was a good to get back being all sweaty and out of breath.

A positive step forward and encouraging enough to give it another week. Stick with it x

How are you getting on?

Much love

G x

The year of the Gav diet - Day 6 & 7

Somethings from the Weekend.

Food consumed Saturday: My Sisters house.1x Tuna & sweetcorn sandwich on a seedy loaf.(some crisps)
                        At Home: Mixed crackers and humus's plus lots of water and green tea
Food offered but rejected: Pink wafers and Chocolate chip digestives (Mum)

Food Consumed Sunday: Bowl of Cereal, coffee,
Dinner in a pub in Essex: A few olives & breads, King prawn salad (a few of Wife's chips!) Raspberry Sorbet with strawbs
Food rejected. Wife's greasy fish cake
Dinner at a friends house: Home-made pizza and incredible baked cheesecake (whoops!)
A couple of cans of fizzy pop whilst watching the Euro final with friends.

Okay, so Sunday does make good reading bu what a weekend though. I got to see most of my favourite people. Nephews and niece gave me a good work, trampoline in the back garden on Saturday & a fantastic family walk on Sunday. Sunday evening was a get together with the people I miss the most. 

Sunday's dinner was a lapse in concentration but a welcome distraction. I don't see my real friends very often and it was hard to say 'no'. Invited around to watch the football and to chinwag with friends.Our host had really gone to town. How can you refuse homemade pizza, 3 kinds and baked cheesecake, just for us!

Feeling good and having covered most of the A406, I head to bed. Very content with a good effort for my first week. Looking forward to tomorrows weigh in.

Goodnight xx

The year of the the Gav diet - day 5.

A night at the Opera.

Breakfast - Cereal!
Lunch - An early lunch today consisting of salad and chicken.
Dinner  - A three course extravaganza of food. Truffle infused Chicken, a Red Snapper main course and a dessert of some description.

My biggest challenge of the week, I am heading off to sample an evening out and its subsequent menu.
Not too elaborate but equally the menu doesn't feature on any diet that I come across. The only positive I can draw from this inevitable first blip is that, due to my first successful week of careful eating, this one meal balances up the calories that I haven't eaten.

Of to the Opera.......

Home from the Opera.
I feel that I have let myself down a little. Not only did I eat a three course, but I had two bread rolls. I have eaten any bread this week at all, then I spoil it with 2 rolls. I was offered a third roll but showed my resilient side by refusing it. On the positive side, I didn't eat all of the creamy desert, I didn't have 'more' when it was offered and I didn't have any carbonated sugary drinks.

So I have successfully eaten well for one 5 days

On Monday hear about my weekend, and find out if it all went pear shaped.

Be well, my people.

G x