This weekend was yet another carb fest. Maybe it's the cold weather, maybe it's a vitamin D deficiency as I'm out of supplements at the moment, or maybe I'm just completely hooked on the sweet stuff again - only not just sweetness, I also had a sausage roll and some artisan bread... Whatever the cause I know I have to do something about it. I'm feeling bloated and I'm constipated... And I'm feeling resolved to act at last. I know I've said similar things a million times and have no reason to feel that this time will be different, but I do feel like it's coming from a slightly different, slightly healthier place this time - not a knee jerk 'I'm disgusting and pathetic and need to be punished by never eating anything good again,' more an 'I don't feel healthy, strong or well and I do deserve to feel those things' place. Who knows how long it will last? Not me - but if I don't make a start it definitely won't happen.
I'm not prioritising weight loss for the moment, just health and control. I've done it before and I can do it again. I can...
On a more cheerful note I have been trying to rediscover the love of cooking the last few weekends and haven't told you about it because I don't post on weekends... The last three weekends I've been cooking from my favourite cookbook, a book called 1000 Classic Chinese Recipes. I've been following one familiar recipe and one totally new recipe to give a sort of Chinese takeaway eaten family style feel, and really have enjoyed it. So I'm continuing that as a weekly treat meal. So far I've cooked Asian Peanut Butter Pork (from crockpot365.blogspot. com not my cookbook) and red-cooked chicken; served leftover peanut butter Pork alongside chicken livers with bamboo shoots & water chestnuts; and on Saturday I did maple barbecued spare ribs (except I used belly pork strips instead of ribs) and hot chilli-chicken.
Over the weekend I walked about 6 miles on Saturday and 4 on Sunday, enjoying the absolutely perfect winter sunshine (while doing my weekly shop on foot instead of car). I also worked for a bit yesterday, and then we watched The Desolation of Smaug - and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Food today :
Breakfast: Chicken leg with tomatoes
Lunch: homemade soup & natural yogurt
Dinner: lamb's heart in Sweet and Sour Sauce. With zoodles.
Snacks : cashews, 2 roast chicken wings
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