Diane65 wrote:the St Clements cake was calling to me but I resisted and just stared at it in its glass cabinet
Good girl! That must have been some cake if it had it's own dedicated glass cabinet - I'm proud of you Diane and I'm sure that that decision will p*y off for you tomorrow
I on the other hand have not been as good as you......Yesterday part way through my 18.5 mile bike ride, my mates (yes we seem to have become a regular three in number now - just to make it even more like "Last of the Summer Wine") decided we would stop part way through the journey to eat
at a cafe that they both knew. I had brought a banana and a box of salad along in my rucksack to eat for lunch but they hadn't brought anything. To be fair to them I could have said "count me out I'll just sit and wait for you" but realistically that wasn't really on, and to be honest I was keen to join them anyhow truth be told.
Before I really thought about it "we" had ordered three Full English Breakfasts. But these were no ordinary breakfasts...Oh, no, they were absolutely massive!! It looked as if some pottery company had been especially commissioned to make the extraordinary large plates that were required to cram all the food onto: Two fried eggs, two rashers of really thick bacon, two sausages, two slabs of black pudding, a hash brown (only one for some reason!), beans, mushrooms and fried potatoes. It came with 3 full slices of thick, well buttered, toast.
Seriously, it was like "my next heart attack" served up to me on a plate. Of course it was delicious and I smothered it with English mustard and lashings of tomato sauce. Barring one slice of toast, I ate it all. .....But I was very conscious that any good that this bike ride was doing me was completely negated and indeed pushed back the other way in this one plateful of high cholesterol megacalorific saturated fatness over-indulgence.
As I was working my way through it, I kept on telling myself that I would cut down for the rest of the day to make up for it - of course I didn't do any such thing and I actually finished off the rest of the day with a small bowl of homemade celery soup made with double cream, a 600gm portion of vegetable curry, two bags of Walkers smoky bacon crisps and a pre-bedtime "2 fingered" Kitkat (which seemed quite appropriate when considered in relation to my supposed diet).
There could be trouble ahead for me at tomorrows weigh-in methinks. A sneak pre-tomorrow weigh-in this morning (yes- I know I shouldn't keep on getting weighed every day!) revealed those three pounds are back on, Darn it!
Today's exercise:
1) It's a rest day for me today, as I ache quite a bit. I think its gardening related, rather than bike ride related.
Today's Meals:
1) One Weetabix with some raspberries and semi-skimmed milk.
2) A portion of Vegetable Curry.
3) Seafood salad.
4) Celery sticks and carrot batons to chomp on.
I need to get focussed again on what I'm supposed to be doing here. I'm going to be trying to fill up with water to stave off the hunger pangs today rather than resorting to crisps and Kitkats.
Hope everyone else is doing a lot better than me
Nice to see some new contributors to the thread popping up recently amongst all the wonderful regulars.
Best wishes to ClareBarr - Hope you are feeling OK these days - I can't remember seeing any posts from you for a while.
Have a great day everyone
