Busy Weekend Of Nothing

Happily Cheated, Happily Back
well, i had my cheat day yesterday in which i found that i am happier living in a state of diet. So i'm back to weetabix, turkey rashers and ry/i/vita.

Though not all at once - three hour intervals still apply, tsk tsk.

Best Movie Watched Of The Day: Elf

Best Movie Duet Watched Yesterday: Evolution and Ghostbusters - an Ivan Reitman festival of shenanigannery

Diet Anxiety: tomorrow's meeting with work people over business lunch (i feel a second cheat day coming on)

Week One Over

A Bit Of A Catch-up, You Know
Well this is week one pretty much over (though tomorrow is really the 7th day), but it's my first "cheat day" today, so it feels like i've got to the end of a small, quietly meaningful mile.

It's not been a dreadfully hard week, but it's been challenging at times - so it's felt like a i'm makin' a change that needed a-makin'. The excercise has been the hardest regime to fit around living with other (often grumpy) people, as i don't live in a mansion (or even have access to a big enough room) to work out in. so that's something to work on - i do think it's the most important part of the dieting process for a work-at-home computer geek bordering easily on the plump side.

Possible Weight Lost But Could Be Completely Wrong Due To Shoddy Scales: 2lb

Cheat-binge Tally At Time Of Publishing:
2 x toast with butter and beef spread
1 x mars bar
2 x weetabix (gasp!)

General Diet Mood: amiable & encouraged

At Last! A New Meal Tackled.

Mooklicious Chicken Curry
1 x bunch of chicken left from the beginning of the week (thoroughly examined for offness)
1 x 2/3 small pot half fat yogurt
1 x sackful of spicey goodness (curry powder, paprika, pepper, salt, something else i can't remember)
1 x drizzle of extra virgin olive oil
1 x bunch of clingfilm
1 x 1/2 pouch of brown rice

zomg, this went really well - v tasty, although attempted very late in the evening. i even found time for ten minutes marinating.

Favourite Implement Of The Meal: brand new pyrex dish. great!

Quaint Comedy Of The Evening: the armstrong & miller show (though not to be viewed near parental support unit, it's a bit blue)

The Lie-In King

Mini Quesadilla Extravaganza
1 x mini fillet o chicken diced to within an inch of its life
1 x soft, floury, wholesome Old El Paso tortilla
1 x handful half-fat mozzy cheese
spice mixture with extra spice: cumin, paprika, pepper, salt, onion powder, garlic salt
1 x mini dash extra virgin olive oil, spread expertly around the pan with my new pastry brush
2 x glob of salsa - one to cook in, one for smearing purposes
1/3 bag of Tilda brown rice - seems such a waste, but dad wouldn't be pressed on the matter so the rest went in the bin...
handful of water to stop the cooking part going very dry and icky
1 x smell of burning chicken

...in which beth realizes her full wok-hypocrisy and burns her own pan. Really must find another lunch-time treat, though(never! ha! i love quesadillas!). Preparing self mentally for the half-fat curry tonight with veggies.

Love: pre-grated half-fat mozzy cheese

Hate: cooking the same thing every day out of simplicity and a desire to find the archetype of half-fat quesadillas

Ambivalent State: incurred by beans today

Funkungfusion

Dee-licious Snackable Involving Tesco Turkey
2 x ry/i/vita wafted over a carton of quark cheeeese
2 x bits of turkey slices
1 x bucketload of pepper
1 x pinch o salt
1 x diet soda
1 x apple (green)

...in which i grow weary of father-type mess.

Most Sincere Amazon.co.uk Apology: "Beth, we're sorry."

Best Bit Of The Snack: post-prandial cigarette

Up, Bustle & Out

A Relatively Ordinary Breakfast
1 x weetiebix
1 x splishy splash of semi-skimmed milk
1 x half spoon of sweetener to mask weetabix taste thoroughly

weetabix - nom nom nom. with this in mind, i was ever so pleased to find a reference to a "high-fibre wholegrain cereal" as a breakfast option in my now-hallowed bible.

in an attempt to prevent white-of-the-egg based complications, i went a-hunting in the tesco cereal aisle. surprised to find myself thinking of the non-healthy foods as The Enemy, i was indeed prepared to be scouring the shelves for a sawdust-related by-product of wood. three packs entered and left my basket (price, price, tesco own brand - to be trusted? no.) until i came upon my trusty weetabix. which announced right on the box - high-fibre, wholegrain cereal.

happy to have a little less in the old breakfast department, i must admit.

Day Most Anticipated: my first cheat day, tomorrow. i don't know what i'll have! it will involve pizza or pasta though.

Unpleasant Horoscope Imagery Of The Day: "Wild ideas sprouted in your head like mushrooms on a fertile marsh."

The Big Tesco Shop

Giant Shopping Expedition With Uber Interesting Tips Surrounded By A Haze Of Yogurt-Coated Raisins Shame
having run out of seedy bread(gasp!) and turkey rashers(swoon!) i decide to make a mega list of ingredients compiled straight from my bible. Boy, it was a mega list.

But i couldn't find my rolled oats. I feel this is prophetic in many ways. However i did find nearly everything else, and have compiled this handy tip-selection for your tesco-shopping convenience:

almost all the ingredients that i couldn't find straight off were squirrelled near the bottom of the shelves - all the healthy living stuff, all the unusual ingredients, all the cheaper spices

i actually saved actual money of substance when i had onion powder, garlic salt, and cinnamon in my hand - all premium-brand, right - but found there was a whooole pound off for each of these when i bought tesco's own brand - i saved £3!! i can't quite get over it

healthy living cheese is expensive yet addictive, and comes in many addiction-sustaining varieties (i spent a lot on my cheese habit this week, but it's all lasted well, and tasty treats abound from this)

the brown rice i eat and waste so carelessly from the Tilda brand is soooo much cheaper than the normal variety! and the taste difference is negligible, says this observer.

the whole foods section at tesco is surprising filled with ingredients like Substance X and interesting bean-based concoctions

a tin of mandarins is cheaper than getting a bunch of tangerines, and you can always have both by encouraging your mother to buy the tangerines.

ry/i/vita is not as nice as "original cracker bread" and can't compete in the cardboard-like texture department

turkey slices are a lot more expensive than they used to be when i was younger

as is bread

this new-found knowledge is indispensable, so i felt i should pass it on to you guys.

Shame Of The Day: yogurt coated raisins.

Important Diet-Related Spiritual Change Of The Week: thinking yogurt-coated raisins are a) a sinful treat b) better than chocolate