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Easter Monday Bank Holiday! I forgot to photograph my dinner and busy doing fun things so let’s have a break from the photos today. I just realised these are the LAST TWO WEEKS of the Gloji course – it’s not so much a sprint to the finish line as a meander. I’ve got some Gloji videos left to watch and am way overdue jumping on the scales (I’ll do it in the morning if I have time) but mostly I’m surprised at how much of this journey has stuck and been relatively easy. I don’t want to go back to how things were, I feel too good.

I’m at a different computer so my photo uploading may not be as swanky. It’s Easter Sunday – I’ve eaten lamb, also most of an Easter Egg when I perhaps should have only eaten a tiny bit of an Easter Egg (consequent feeling of nausea rather than attributing any moral value to a foodstuff). There’s a feeling when I’ve eaten too much sugar that, just perhaps, eating something savoury will help me feel better… it won’t though. Happy Easter to anyone who celebrates it. Next year – poached egg instead of chocolate.

4 day weekend! I celebrated with a lie-in, an Easter-themed breakfast, and a Pizza. Can anyone actually ever eat all the crust from a pizza? It’s bland, it’s never-ending, it’s in the food rubbish bin now and destined for the chute. I like the bit in the middle. I suppose you need the bits around the edge to stop the bits in the middle falling off.

Our plan (mine and PJ’s) for the long weekend is to be active and make the place cleaner and nicer. I included a majorly long walk today, which was only semi for work purposes. I didn’t pay too much attention to what I was eating and, oh my goodness, food pictures from previous days that I haven’t bothered to post are a lot more inspiring than today’s – aside from the hot cross bun with strawberries – got to have a hot cross bun at Easter.

Today’s lesson – too much carbs seems a fun idea but then it’s boring. Think the hormones are calming down though and I can eat like a person again, instead of like a human dustbin.

Good morning (day 65)! Oh woe is me. I made the most excellent and lovely tasting healthy dinner, diligently put the leftovers in a container to cool down for a bit before fridging it, and then awoke today to PJ telling me “I put your container in the fridge just now but it has been out overnight”. Now I have ‘I hate wasting food’ upset PLUS ‘OMG that was really nice though and I was looking forward to seconds’ upset. I can recreate it if I get another tin of spinach, but I’m a bit mopey about the waste.

Here’s yesterday’s food photos:

Update re day 65 food – way too many biscuits. Have learned that my hormones love biscuits. I know some of them are oatcakes but it’s still biscuits (just like poppadoms and prawn crackers are still crisps). According to a popular sanitary towel manufacturer “Fluctuations in hormones affect your neurotransmitters, typically at the time that your egg is released during ovulation. Your body craves carbs, fat and sweets, so you reach for these high-calorie treats. This is an attempt to boost the lower levels of serotonin currently being produced by your body.”
Good oh.

I had another break from blogging, this time semi-unintentional. Just busy. Took my food photos for the past few days, but I think I’ll start posting them just from today. I honestly expected keeping up healthily eating and exercising to be harder, and keeping remembering to blog to be easier, but it’s been the other way round. It’s lunchtime on a Sunday and I’m off out on a healthy walk. Catch you later!

The above meals were all requested, created, and eaten by me, with the exception of the cheesy biscuits which were both demanded by, and eaten by, my hormones at 11pm.

Busy day! 2 long walks. Lovely fun times with PJ including being his hairdresser again – the deal is he sets everything up in the bathroom and clears away afterwards, I just do the fun bit with scissors and clippers! We’ve been each other’s hairdresser throughout the pandemic.

…at least I hope it is! I had a break from blogging for a few days while work stuff was reaching its crescendo of making me busy. I also took a few days’ break from photographing my food, or particularly paying attention to what I was eating, which backfired spectacularly with the bread that upon closer inspection had gone off… *shudder*!

Taking a break has brought some positives though – I’ve got fresh energy to bring to my remaining time doing the Gloji challenge and particularly, having eaten some things that have been rushed and not that balanced over the past few days, I’ve got more ideas about how, when and what I would like to be eating. Walking’s also got easier, so those longer walks are no longer out of the question.

Updating on Day 51. I’ll put photos of yesterday’s and today’s meals on here in a bit.

Today’s long walk was a mission to reunite PJ with his thermos flask, which he had left on my desk in the front room when he left for work. I’m doing a bit of internet work now to see how many miles I walked to his office – it’s not a huge amount, it’s only one post code away. OK – 3.6 miles total! PJ does that every single day though, so I can do more. His office were nice, they let me use the loo, although I had to sing because the lock didn’t work.

I suspect I’m still at a plateau because even though I haven’t got back on the scales, I don’t feel like I’ve lost any or look like I’ve lost any. If I’m going to shift some more weight then I’d rather do it by moving more than by eating less. Also, I feel like, looking at my meals, there isn’t enough protein! As I understand it, protein isn’t an energy source but it can help you feel less hungry, admittedly not as important as its good work helping with growth and repair, but a bonus.
Not sure if I’ve said this on here yet but one obstacle I face with the protein is: I don’t like meat. I was vegetarian for the longest time (over 25 years) and never had the taste for it before, or got the taste for it since.
It’s too chewy! …Possible research into things that have a load of protein but aren’t meat to follow.

Clocks forward today – and I spent most of it doing housework and chatting to PJ, while listening to Genesis albums in chronological order (1969 onwards) on Spotify. Did an extended Pilates session before that though, also squeezed in a walk before the sun went down.

Had a reminder today to take better care of my health, in the form of noticing feeling asthmatic. Someone I know (and respect!) once said something to me like “You worry a lot about your health, don’t you?”… and it’s not quite that, but if you have long-term medical conditions then you have to keep an eye out for things that will make them worse and proactively do things that will keep you healthy. That’s where I failed the past few days – I’ve been not taking my steroid inhaler because I had used one up and I couldn’t be bothered (times about 4 doses) to get the new inhaler out of the box and to peel all the annoying plastic covering off it in order to be able to use it. Today there was inhaler use, much Spring cleaning, and a resolve to take the exercising more seriously, not just today, not just for Gloji, but for my lungs! It’s been a great day, and being a tiny bit tight-chested for a while is not the worst thing in the world.