My tribulations with exercise

My brother has friends over this weekend, which was nice as they got my mind off things. However this did curtail my doing exercise on Saturday. By Sunday the guilt had built up a enough that I pulled myself away from socialising for an hour or two and did an exercise video, which wasn’t difficult [...]

Cornwall and Cream Teas

I spent the weekend down in Cornwall, lasing about on the beach, flying giant kites, swimming and walking. Forgot to re-apply my suncream so I am sporting a heavily ‘Sun-kissed’ face. I’d blush from embarrassment but then my face turns a rather distressing shade of puce.

Unfortunately as I was Camping calorie counting was fairly challenging. [...]

Rain, rain go away otherwise I’ll have an excuse not to exercise!

We’ve had spotty showers here today, even a flash of lightning and clap of thunder or two. Fortunately it sort of cleared up so I was able to go for my proscribed walk. I did the sensible thing and wore trainers and a weather proof coat, however I truly loath the way I look dressed [...]

Damn you spur-of-the moment decisions!!

Apparently my family has just decided they can’t be bothered to cook tonight and so we’re all going to the local pub to share a mixed seafood platter… well how on earth am I meant to count the calories in that?!?

Baking

I love baking. Love, love, love. Unfortunately it’s not really the sort of hobby that is helpful when trying to lose weight. This makes me sad.

There is a glimmer of light in the distance however. I just stumbled across Oh She Glows blog (link in my blogroll), which has a nice selection [...]

Beef Wellington…

I didn’t cook my lunch today, which was delightful (although I’m quite a good cook I don’t always enjoy doing it) however, as you may guess from the title it was beef wellington. Yup, great start to my eating more carefully and losing weight! It wasn’t so bad actually, except I was seduced into trying [...]