Geek Fest and Asian Food Fest

I was up first thing this morning to get my gym workout in before we started our busy day. I did 10 minutes of 1 minute intervals on the cross trainer and 10 minutes of 1 minute intervals on the step machine followed by my weights routine as described in my training plan. I ended the workout with a quick plank and side planks and some stretching.

I also had my weigh in this morning, I've lost 2 pounds since last week and I'm now down to 9st 11! (137 pounds) I think this is mostly down to my mid week illness and after todays eats I've probably put that 2 pounds back on plus some more!

I had a quick and tasty breakfast of a chocolate cherry green monster in a bowl (spinach, chocolate whey, frozen cherries, ground flax and vanilla rice milk) with a few grape nuts for crunch.

Then we headed off to the Dr Who Exhibition! For anyone reading who isn't familiar with Dr Who (I'm sure everyone in the UK must be by now!) its a sci fi show from the BBC about a dude that time travels in an old fashioned Police Box and has lots of adventures on his way (thats the best way I can think of describing it!) On the way we grabbed a coffee from Costas, I had my usual skinny caramel latte.

It was great to see so many of the genuine props, costumes and models that have been used in the show as well as coming face to face with loads of the well known characters:

Cyber Men

K-9

Darleks

The T.A.R.D.I.S (with the hubby)

Big scary alien (and goofy me!)

Total geek fest!

After we had enjoyed the exhibition we wondered through town to a new Asian buffet style restaurant called LAUS 202. It had loads of choice, as well as the usual buffet it had a 'Chefs Island' serving freshly made Sushi, various grills and skewers, dim sum and even freshly made waffles. There was almost too much choice! I know these buffet style chinese restaurants can sometimes not be the best quality, but everything seemed really nice and the restaurant was beauifully decorated.

I started with a small bowl of creamy vegetable soup (phone pics as didn't want to keep whipping my camera out)

Then some boiled mixed veggies, thai green curry, tofu in sweet and spicy sauce and some crispy fried greens.

I shared a small plate of sushi with the hubby, I had the one with the bite out of it, which was tuna.

I then had some cantonese chicken, beef in black bean sauce, a few wide noodles, two vegetable filled spring rolls (which were wonderful) and more boiled veggies

I couldn't resist one last plate of the sweet and spicy tofu with more veggies and crispy greens

I finished my feast with some fresh fruit - melon, grapes and apple.

It looks like I ate a mountain of food here (and really I did!) but the plates weren't that huge and I didn't finish the last two plates even though I didn't feel as stuffed as I usually do, like after eating pasta or pizza.

We had a look round the shops and then headed home to catch up on some TV. I bit later on I started to feel peckish so I made a green monster with spinach, frozen banana, skimmed milk and maca powder topped with grape nuts. I turned out a lighter green than usual due to using the skimmed milk rather than my usual rice milk.

I also snacked on an apple

I didn't want anything like a normal dinner after all that lovely Asian food so I just had a bowl of natural yoghurt with two chopped peaches and some Tropical Bear Granola Nibbles.

Drinks - water, green tea, decaf tea, coffee

Today has been a good day!

I am now going to spend the rest of the weekend trying to sort out this bloody laptop, its going to take me ages to reload and organise all of my music and photos back on to it. I will be making very sure I back up from now on! So what does everyone have planned for the weekend? I've got a couple of runs planned, seeing friends and family and possibly going to see SATC 2 but I'll have to see how things plan out with that. I also need to spend some time thinking about my holiday and planning what things I still need to sort out, including myself! I'm thinking of setting myself a little summer confidence challenge to make sure I'm feeling and looking great for my hols, more info to follow me thinks!

Hope you have a great weekend and if your here in the UK, a good bank holiday Monday too!

What the scales say

What a beautiful day it has been! I'm so glad that this is due to continue into the weekend :-)

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