I woke up bright and early this morning, feeling much more energised than yesterday, and had my Friday morning weigh in. I was very suprised (especially after my treats in Birmingham) to find that I'd lost a pound and I'm now down to 9st 13lb (139lbs). This is the first time I've dropped below the 10st mark (140lb). I don't mind dropping down a few pounds under my 10st - 10st 7lb 'happy' weight as I'm anticipating a weight gain from my holiday and a few other things I have coming up where I will be indulging. I'm still kind of in awe when I look down at the scale and see numbers like that, honestly sometimes it feels like I just popped into existance weighing 12st and it was all downhill from there. I sometimes feel like this isn't actually real, and that one day I'll get on the scales and they'll say 13 or 14st again, this is a mind set that I really need to get out of! I hope that one day I will get to the point when I don't care what the scales say, it is just a number afterall. I think I've just spent so long using them to tell me if I've done well or failed its difficult to move away from them!
Anyway, after that suprise I went and made myself a lovely mug of warm water and lemon juice. I then hit the gym when it opened at 7am. I did 10 mins of intervals on the cross trainer and the 10 mins of intervals on the step machine before doing my supersets of strength exercises as detailed in my training plan. I decided to do a few less reps on my deadlift to save my legs for my distance run in the morning. I'm still totally loving this quick little workout that gets in a good bit of cardio and strength at the same time!
I went home and quickly got showered and dressed then headed straight into work. I had my breakfast at my desk, and it was really tasty today. I had greek yoghurt mixed with a scoop of chocolate whey, strawberries and Cocoa Cherry Pie Bear Granola.
All I can say is that this tasted amazing. I love the chocolate and strawberry combo, I don't think I could ever tire of it!
Lunch was another portion of my Brocolli and Beetroot Salad from last night followed by a lovely crunchy braeburn apple.
Mid afternoon I snacked on a cocoa orange nakd bar and a cup of decaf tea.
Still can't get over how a mix of dried fruit, nuts, cocoa powder and natural flavouring can taste so damn good!
I didn't stick it out at work very late, the sunshine was calling my name! So I headed home and opened all of my windows wide. We have a small communal garden at the back of our flat, but its north facing so we don't get a lot of sitting out in the sunshine opportunities. I tend to just open all the windows and invite the sunshine in! (or commandeer my parents garden and a sun lounger - my plan for tomorrow!) Instead I decided to try and do as much cleaning as I could tonight so that I could just relax over the weekend. I ended up flying round the flat with the hoover and duster, the beauty of living in a 1 bed flat is cleaning doesn't take long!
When I was planning dinner I wanted to make sure that I was getting in some carbs to help fuel my run tomorrow so decided to make a pitta pizza. I defrosted a wholemeal pitta, sliced it open and topped with tomato puree, fresh tomato slices, red pepper, courgette and mozzerella cheese. I served it with some spinach leaves.
I didn't cook it for too long as I like my mozzerella just melted rather than browned, I just love melty cheese!
Desert was a bowl of 'Green Ice Cream'. I made up my usual green monster mix of frozen banana, spinach, rice milk, maca powder and added in an additional kiwi then blended and left in the freezer to harden up a bit.
I topped it with a load of agave syrup for added sweetness.
I've just snacked on another braeburn apple and I'm considering hitting the chocolate stash a bit later as well!
Drinks - water, green tea, decaf coffee, decaf tea
So the weekend is here! What do you have planned? I don't really have any set plans apart from fitting in my run which makes a lovely change. I think I will try and get through to my parents house and enjoy their sun trap back garden for a while and just chill.I can't wait! Hope you have all had a great week and have a fun weekend planned x
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