“I admire your ambition” said PJ, as I advised him there was no salt used making our evening meal of Quorn sausages, carrots, mash, and a herb and tomato sauce. After tasting it, we both agreed it needed some. I added a small sprinkle, with great hesitancy…
Top left: Mushroom quiche for breakfast Bottom left: Celery, apples, walnuts, almost a Waldorf salad. Vegan cheese on oatcakes Right: There are Quorn sausages under the mash, carrots, and sauce – not enough salt!
I did a tentative walk today, to the shop and back. Very slow and careful going but it was good to be outside. I’m updating this blog at 1:42am on Sunday but this is Saturday’s update and food. In the photos, I missed out the 7 blueberries I ate so I could take the container out of the fridge and there’d be more room for the food shop once it arrived.
20 minutes chairobics this morning – it’s definitely an aerobic workout, despite my concern it might not be because of my idea that you have to jump up and down to achieve that.
Busy day! Lots of work done, fair bit of housework done. Going to see if my leg/foot are up to a walk outside tomorrow… staying in is not enough fresh air. Food photos from today:
Top left: apples, blueberries, walnuts, amaranth, soya yogurt Bottom left: can of soup (extra beans added!), rocket and vegan cheese Right: mushroom quiche (my usual seeds, nuts, and oats base), carrot mixed with humous, olives, salad, mayo
There were also 2 squares of 100% chocolate, but they’re not all that photogenic.
The Gloji videos that I’m watching today want me to look at how wonderful exercise is, and how to enjoy it, as I sit here with neither leg being optimal to stand on at the current time 😄. American YouTubers got me covered, as usual.
Today was a weigh day: 75.5kg
I’ve been meaning to put some thoughts in this blog about how my eating habits and tastes have changed since I began doing my little Gloji journey.
Here’s a list of things I’m eating less of…
↓Bottled sauces and ketchup are lasting longer because my food is so nice it doesn’t need them and, while I have used mayonnaise, one jar used to last us one week whereas now it lasts more like 3 weeks. ↓ Despite some experimentation with lentil chips, and a disastrous attempt to turn popchips into crackers by putting cheese on them, I’ve not had a bag of crisps for almost a month. Too much salt and too dry! It’s like how I remember having used to enjoy smoking, I get it – but not now thanks. ↓ Oh my goodness, bread – what an utter dry and boring disappointment you are now in general. I found a dire warning on the internet somewhere about dreadful things that could happen if you stopped eating bread but the person who wrote it seemed to be assuming that bread is the only carbohydrate that exists… either that or they were a baker. PLUS – and this is spooky, we had the same loaf of sliced wholemeal bread at home for nearly 3 weeks and it did not go mouldy! Made us wonder what chemicals they put in it and thus what goes into us when we eat it?!
Here’s what I’m doing eating more of…
↑ I think the biggest change is that I wait till I’m hungry and then I eat a meal. This replaces my previous pattern of forgetting to eat then grabbing bread, or eating recreationally without much thought about what I was eating. I did used to make meals, usually a meal for me and PJ when he came home, but I don’t think I was looking after myself well enough to sort anything proper out at other times. I also don’t tend to eat after my evening meal now, which I couldn’t imagine happening before (probably because I wasn’t eating properly in the day thus really, really hungry). ↑ Salad – by which I mean salad leaves, and other veg and things that can be used in a salad. I love all of that – a meal doesn’t feel quite right if there’s not enough veg in it. We buy what I think is plenty with the weekly shop, but then I run out of it because it gets eaten.
Here’s some things that haven’t changed, some of which should…
⟷ I love nuts and eat them in approximately the same proportions as before. ⟷ I like soup and it would be great to eat more of it, particularly soup I make myself. ⟷ I could also do to drink a bit more liquid, either water or my herbal teas that I like.
Left: blueberries, bananas, pecans / Bottom right: tofu, carrots, olives, celery, mustard, broccoli, tomatoes, oatcakes with humous / Top right: satay chicken, noodles, peppers, cashew nuts, broccoli, onions – more oatcakes and cheese
How did I miss that it was pancake day yesterday? Oops. Another oops is that, with leaning more on my left foot when I walk (due to the hurt right leg) and still going on long walks, I appear to have exacerbated an existing foot problem and am going to need to rest up for a few days and/or find some exceptionally creative new ways of exercising for a bit. I did Pilates again this morning… and felt great for it. I also googled “Chairobics” and found a ton of videos. There is always a way!
I’ll come back to this post and add today’s food pictures tomorrow. Haven’t forgotten that tomorrow is a weigh day!
Left: Orange, walnuts, vegan cheese Top Right: Poached eggs on roast asparagus (next time I will boil the asparagus but fry the eggs as I think both would benefit from the swap), celery and peppers, creamy vegan cheese on popchips Bottom Right: Chicken pesto pasta salad – it’s got courgettes in as well!
Just a quick one today – this is the first time I’ve had spare to blog. Here are some food photos. I did a lot of walking – some of it a long trek to buy salad because we had run out and I have become a salad fiend. My leg still hurts. Ow. xx
Top Right: popped amaranth, soya yogurt, blueberries – I put some seed mix in the blender and added it to the amaranth, which I don’t recommend now – amaranth is already seeds and it wasn’t that nice Left: Can of soup – I decided it didn’t have enough (any) beans in so I added chick peas and kala chana, which I do recommend – also home made coleslaw, tomatoes, oatcakes and vegan camembert, and lentil chips Bottom Right: Corn on the cob, lentil chips, and… something that started out being a lot of salad veg: celery, carrot, spring onion, red pepper, cucumber, also olives and walnuts – then I added couscous and kidney beans, some vegan cheese and some lemon juice
Good grief! Enough with the lentil chips today! If I keep going like this my blood pressure might go back up.
