Days Seven, Eight and Nine of Diet Proper

I know you are probably all disappointed that I did not blog on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, but you will no doubt have the strength to move forward and carry on with your lives!

It is getting quite a lot for me to maintain 3 different blogs - not that I am quitting any of them you understand - but I think that having a blog which is a daily listing of what I ate is perhaps not the most interesting!

I'm still on soya milk at the moment - I cannot find rice milk in the shops I have been to recently, and I find the soya milk more palatable and cost-effective (i.e. cheaper) than the almond milk. So that's what I've been having with my shakes.

So: progress?

Monday was a day of great joy in my mouth when my boyfriend made us a stir fry from my "Healthy Book" - a recipe book full of healthy recipes including nutritional breakdown and suggested portion sizes. It was absolutely delicious. The ingredients included pak choi (which neither of us had ever eaten before), chicken, chillis, garlic, soy sauce, a bit of oil and delicious egg noodles.

Although it was healthy....I will admit that I had seconds, so I probably ate a bit too much.

On Tuesday my brother came to stay and we had steaks. Before I move on to this meal, I will confess: I did not take my shake to work. I ran out of soya milk and I didn't have enough time to go buy some before I went out. Instead, I drank a healthy smoothie that I bought from Waitrose, which had many berries in the ingredients list, and was a SUPERFOOD.

So, steaks - the brother cooked the meat with balsamic vinegar, a bit of salt and a bit of pepper, and we ate salad with it. The salad was one of my concoctions, which involved grated carrot, mixed leaves, rocket, feta cheese and cucumber. I also bought a giant couscous pre-made salad which had chilli in it and was absolutely delicious.

I also ate a bit of chocolate. Slapped wrist for that one.

On Wednesday, last night, we had a barbecue. We cooked up some sausages and bacon, I dry-fried some onions, and I roasted butternut squash and potato with chilli salt and pepper in the oven for half an hour. We had the leftovers of the salad, with bonus spinach and strawberries added in. I had tomato ketchup, which I've been trying to avoid, and I also had bread rolls with my sausages....so not 100% great, but not completely poor either. I did eat more chocolate. Sorry for that!

I still haven't been to the gym. The pressure of this is really getting to me, and I hopefully will be able to kick my ass into gear soon. I'm taking a concoction of medication for gastritis (the condition which kicked off the whole "Corrie shall go on a diet" thing in the first place) and it is leaving me quite low in energy. I had a medication review yesterday and the dose was reduced as I am deemed to have made enough progress, so hopefully the side-effect shall go soon.

I know how you feel, polar bear.

I am hoping to go to "Pure Step" tonight at 6 pm. We shall see.

Much love,

Corrie xx