1 x pre-cardio quick cigarette to loosen the valves
1 x 5 minute cardio on wobbly excercise bike
2 x dyke muscle workouts with 3 sets of 25 reps each
1 x sneaky core excercise set that feels deceptively easy but sneaks up on you
1 x this-will-kill-me last five minutes of cardio on wobbly excercise bike (repositioned to allow for watching of corination street by parental support system)
Beth's Excercise Tips For Home Workout: time workout sessions to co-incide with complete absence of parental support unit; in the event of unexpected visits by relations during muscle toning, persist in appearing as unconventional as possible by muttering in the manner of popeye.
Monday 26 November 2007
Snack 2
2 x crispy bread things with that now-familiar scraping of quark cheese
1 x meagre-looking handful of sunflower seeds
my mam's last tangerine (she'll kill me)
orange barley stuff made with lemonade - luxury
...i screwed up my eating times (god help me, i just can't do hour-maths) so i'm having a late snack and unfortunately nothing else this evening, even though i've expended quite a large portion of my sunflower-seed-calories in keeping the kitchen tidy for the last meal of the day am beginning to crave the broccoli i've passed all day. nevermind, i do feel fairly full (which is as His Holiness Harley predicted) so all's well.
Haughty Snack Moment: declining my dad's request to use my £20 wok (a.k.a. Wokkie Okkie, of whom many songs are still sung). if he can prove he can use it without giving in to temptation and a) cooking yukky fish in it or b) applying metal implements to it's beautifully unscathed non-stick surface that gleams richly in the morning, then we may have grounds for negotiation.
1 x meagre-looking handful of sunflower seeds
my mam's last tangerine (she'll kill me)
orange barley stuff made with lemonade - luxury
...i screwed up my eating times (god help me, i just can't do hour-maths) so i'm having a late snack and unfortunately nothing else this evening, even though i've expended quite a large portion of my sunflower-seed-calories in keeping the kitchen tidy for the last meal of the day am beginning to crave the broccoli i've passed all day. nevermind, i do feel fairly full (which is as His Holiness Harley predicted) so all's well.
Haughty Snack Moment: declining my dad's request to use my £20 wok (a.k.a. Wokkie Okkie, of whom many songs are still sung). if he can prove he can use it without giving in to temptation and a) cooking yukky fish in it or b) applying metal implements to it's beautifully unscathed non-stick surface that gleams richly in the morning, then we may have grounds for negotiation.
Lunch
Quesadillas With Chicken And Stuff
2oz cute chicken minifillets from tescos (2 for a fiver, result!)
2 x relatively flavourless wholegrain tortillas
half of a half of a can of mixed bean salad (in yummy vinegrette, but i had to drain it - boo hiss)
tiny weeny handful of low fat cheese
lovely warm cup of tea
half a rivita whilst i was waiting for the chicken to cook (just in case it tasted different from before, in the interests of science)
spices galore (pepper, paprika, more pepper, salt, cumin, more pepper)
a whole bunch of that cooking spray stuff that's meant to taste like butter but smells more like something really sweet's on fire.
smidgen of buffalo wings salsa-esque sauce to make you believe you're not being deprived.
...in which i had fun coating the chicken in spices, but caused something in the kitchen to smell like electrical burning. had to work out what half a cup was in british measurements. also what ounces are in grams. for those of you trying similar culinary experiments at home, 2oz is just enough to fill two tortillas. no, i can't remember, so i'll have to work it out all over again tomorrow. actually, i can utterly recommend this meal - v. tasty although not as easy to prepare as i've made it sound...
Radio Show Listened To Whilst Eating: mark, of mark and lard fame filling in for steve wright on radio 2. it was ok but... i wanted more.
Top Tip Discovered In Preparation: move your kettle away from your microwave-grill-combo's vent when heating.
Anxious Moments: wondering if it's possible to cobble together a "toaster oven" out of paper clips and elastic bands; aforementioned unknown burning smell and was-it-the-microwave-after-all-conundrum; having to touch cold beans out of the tin; necessary fetching of healthy ingredients from behind pork pies in fridge; recurring pork pie fantasies throughout afternoon.
2oz cute chicken minifillets from tescos (2 for a fiver, result!)
2 x relatively flavourless wholegrain tortillas
half of a half of a can of mixed bean salad (in yummy vinegrette, but i had to drain it - boo hiss)
tiny weeny handful of low fat cheese
lovely warm cup of tea
half a rivita whilst i was waiting for the chicken to cook (just in case it tasted different from before, in the interests of science)
spices galore (pepper, paprika, more pepper, salt, cumin, more pepper)
a whole bunch of that cooking spray stuff that's meant to taste like butter but smells more like something really sweet's on fire.
smidgen of buffalo wings salsa-esque sauce to make you believe you're not being deprived.
...in which i had fun coating the chicken in spices, but caused something in the kitchen to smell like electrical burning. had to work out what half a cup was in british measurements. also what ounces are in grams. for those of you trying similar culinary experiments at home, 2oz is just enough to fill two tortillas. no, i can't remember, so i'll have to work it out all over again tomorrow. actually, i can utterly recommend this meal - v. tasty although not as easy to prepare as i've made it sound...
Radio Show Listened To Whilst Eating: mark, of mark and lard fame filling in for steve wright on radio 2. it was ok but... i wanted more.
Top Tip Discovered In Preparation: move your kettle away from your microwave-grill-combo's vent when heating.
Anxious Moments: wondering if it's possible to cobble together a "toaster oven" out of paper clips and elastic bands; aforementioned unknown burning smell and was-it-the-microwave-after-all-conundrum; having to touch cold beans out of the tin; necessary fetching of healthy ingredients from behind pork pies in fridge; recurring pork pie fantasies throughout afternoon.
Snack 1
Platter-esque Of Many Healthy Things
3 x rivita (2 with quark soft cheesey stuff scraped on and then scraped off, as i wasn't sure what it was going to taste like)
1 x handful of sunflower seeds (apparently full of protein-calorie goodness)
4 x half fat mozzarella balls, fished out from their weird watery dwelling
1 x tiny weenie tangerine because i couldn't find an apple to peel and cut into appetising bits
Pepper on the quark stuff
Sugar-free carbonated beverage
Half a rivita whilst preparing, just to see
Tea towel to wipe the mozzarella yuk off my hands
Cigarette, on completion of a snack platter well prepared
Well... the Quark was tastier than i'd suspected it to be - it looks like what i can only describe as "stuff". But pepper makes everything good, and it was surprisingly unlike cardboard.
Tune In My Head Whilst Preparing: Peter & The Wolf / Sergey Prokofiev
Munching Music: More Beats N' Pieces [live] / Coldcut :: Ninja Tunes Label
3 x rivita (2 with quark soft cheesey stuff scraped on and then scraped off, as i wasn't sure what it was going to taste like)
1 x handful of sunflower seeds (apparently full of protein-calorie goodness)
4 x half fat mozzarella balls, fished out from their weird watery dwelling
1 x tiny weenie tangerine because i couldn't find an apple to peel and cut into appetising bits
Pepper on the quark stuff
Sugar-free carbonated beverage
Half a rivita whilst preparing, just to see
Tea towel to wipe the mozzarella yuk off my hands
Cigarette, on completion of a snack platter well prepared
Well... the Quark was tastier than i'd suspected it to be - it looks like what i can only describe as "stuff". But pepper makes everything good, and it was surprisingly unlike cardboard.
Tune In My Head Whilst Preparing: Peter & The Wolf / Sergey Prokofiev
Munching Music: More Beats N' Pieces [live] / Coldcut :: Ninja Tunes Label
Breakfast
Open Bacon & Egg Samwidge
2 x turkey rashers
2 x egg whites (seperating is fun!)
2 x seeded bread slices (yuk - brown - but i'm getting used to the indigestion)
1 x Snifter of low fat grated cheese
Pounds and pounds of cracked black pepper to taste
1 x Bemused expression to watch the turkey rashers go round and round in the microwave.
Ok, so. I'm Doing A Diet. It's been pointed out (by my latest dieting book) that fad diets don't work (does anyone else appreciate the delicious, fat-free irony of that?) and dear old Harley lists many reasons why this is so. He's uber clever, him. I think he went to university, or night-classes, or read a lot of diet books or something. Anyway, he's my latest guru, and i'm all up for giving myself over to someone who can look graceful on a gym ball. I tend to roll off.
2 x turkey rashers
2 x egg whites (seperating is fun!)
2 x seeded bread slices (yuk - brown - but i'm getting used to the indigestion)
1 x Snifter of low fat grated cheese
Pounds and pounds of cracked black pepper to taste
1 x Bemused expression to watch the turkey rashers go round and round in the microwave.
Ok, so. I'm Doing A Diet. It's been pointed out (by my latest dieting book) that fad diets don't work (does anyone else appreciate the delicious, fat-free irony of that?) and dear old Harley lists many reasons why this is so. He's uber clever, him. I think he went to university, or night-classes, or read a lot of diet books or something. Anyway, he's my latest guru, and i'm all up for giving myself over to someone who can look graceful on a gym ball. I tend to roll off.
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