Healthy Revolutionaries!

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Oh Okay, hardly original. :)

But describes us all. :)

Me today,

B- apple, yogurt, cashew nuts and honey
L- salmon and salad
D- honey sesame chicken legs with a greek salad.

O&DW FRs!

Thankyou Amanda , I just love food really. I agree that being really truly hungry is a lovely feeling because that first taste of whatever you eat is absolutely amazing rather than just "mhhhh".

Me today:

2 rashers of bacon, one Burford Brown egg, toms and mushrooms
bowl of British strawberries (always sweeter than Spanish) with a dollop of thick cream (no sugar)

lots of cups of tea (no sugar)

Chicken Cacciatore (chicken onions red wine toms olives and olive oil and fresh herbs) served with creamy mash (butter and cream) carrots, broccoli, peas and butternut squash.

I love chicken cacciatore. It's a real favourite here.

Today.
B: white buttered toast and marmalade. Mocha/ coffee. A few blueberries
L: half a cheese sandwich, chocolate brownie, a few mini cheddars
D: Chinese takeaway half a magnum gold (shared with dd)

Not enough fruit. No veg

Fasting tomorrow.

I saw Burford eggs in Waitrose today and thought of you Milly :) Did not get them when I had the chance though as DS was making a run for it. I will try them out!

You make chicken cacciatore the way I do too-and eat it with mash like I do as well. :) Yum.

Me today:

B- 3 white coffees
L- home made prawn mayo and salad leaves on rye
D- creamy chicken pie and mash.
Drinks- various cordials and herbal teas. I went back to some wine after Lent but realised I prefer to keep it for the odd occasion only.My sleep is so much better.

What did you get done at the hairdressers Amanda? I need to go..... I HATE going to the hairdresser,but currently have ratty greying hair.

Yum for today's healthy menu wellies

I had highlights and a tint. I'd had it cut last week.
It's literally years since I had it coloured properly
Go. It makes a difference doesn't it.

It was delicious Wellies. I don't drink anymore as it just gives me a headache and a feeling of being poisoned until it leaves my body. Cant do it anymore.

O I love highlights Amanda. I colour my hair in a warm blond and then put balayage highlights through my hair. I do this myself and have for years. I do my daughters too. My hair is in a chin length bob.

Ooh. Where do you get those highlights from? How do you do that wellies?

I got my eggs from Waitrose actually Wellies

Fasting day.
Soup, apple, matchbox sized piece of steak, 3 baby toms, several white coffees.
Hopefully that was < 500 cals.
Very tired. Quite peckish.

Did you have a huge salad with that steak Amanda?
Do you lose weight doing your fasts if you don't mind me asking?

Me Yesterday...

On Burford Egg ( god they are amazing, such a strong flavour and the colour of the yoke...Do you know what though, I live in a farming area and there is nothing but mountains and fields around me and the man opposite (Welsh Farmer) has free range eggs . Very free range as in I watch his hens running around all day as does the farmer next to me so why I dont just go and buy my eggs from him I dont know! Anyway I digress) with one slice of toast and welsh salty butter

One apple (slightly warmed in the microwave as it gives it a sort of baked apple taste which I love ) with a small wedge of Doux de Montagne cheese (Ive been to Waitrose as a treat)

Haddock in breadcrumbs with oven baked lemons, homemade red cabbage coleslaw, homemade maple oven wedges and small portion of carrots broccoli and peas.

Some raspberry Divine Chocolate

Have a lovely day...

Me today

cup of tea and biscuit

half a bacon sandwich

2 custard creams and cup of tea

couple of squares of chocolate

Small portion of homemade slow cooked lasagne (6 hours cooking time) with 3 homemade oven wedges and mixed salad with dollop of mayo and sour cream

one desert spoon of Haagen Dazs salty caramel

one Bendicks mint

cups of tea

Hows everyone doing this week?

Yes. When I do 5:2 I lose weight.
Yesterday was crap though. I couldn't stop eating because I was so stressed and tired.

Amanda sorry , were you asking me about my highlights or Wellies? I am confused.

Oh. Sorry. I misread the poster name
I w asking about your highlights.

Fasting today.

Well I use a honey golden blond colour Loreal 9.4 I think it is. Then I use a medium blond highlight kit and just brush it on where I want it. Very natural looking. I have been doing this for 21 years now so I have got it down to an art lol.

Didn't really eat yesterday other than a piece of toast as was in bed all day with a migraine and the usual vomiting urgggg!!!!

Today

Poached Burford Beauty on white toast with Salty Welsh butter

very small piece of DD homemade date, walnut and carrot cake

homemade chicken and leek pie made with white wine and cream
veg

How was the fast Amanda?
Wellies how you doing?
might have chocolate later or salty icecream. We shall see...

Thanks milly I haven't seen a highlighting kit in a while. Must look harder.

Sooty you've been unwell. Migraine sounds awful. I hope you're better today.
Yesterday's fast was good. Today I ad egg and toast and a yogurt for breakfast, then broccoli, 2 potato wedges, half a peanut butter sandwich and 2 digestives for lunch.
Spag Bol and a mini magnum for dinner.
I need to go down to 2 meals a day really. I feel like I'm just overeating ok easily.

I get mine from Superdrug. Its the medium blond highlight kit not super blond though.

Sooty lol......he he!

Fast day sounds good. Well done.

Lol. I missed that one.

Yesterday...
bowl of granola with ground almonds, honey and seeds
toast with salty welsh butter
toast with peanut butter
homemade chicken coconut curry with fresh yoghurt
Rhubarb cordial
5 squares chocolate

today

2 poached eggs and one slice salty butter toast

small plate of olives, rhubarb chutney, bit of pear, vine tomato, aged Caerphilly (lush..ripe and full of flavour) chunk of French bread

one nectarine (yay)

half chicken breast with garlic and parsley butter and salad

I popped to Waitrose today (45mins away but worth the trip) and bought lots of lovely summer fruit, rhubarb cordial and rhubarb chutney, cheeses and fresh herbs then went to Tesco for my usual bits.
Also went to the garden centre for bedding plants (late in know but they will still bloom) and wildflower seeds which I chuck around and they bloom from July onwards in the most showoffish way !! lovely.

Bit of a greedy weekend.
Has anyone tried those Marc de champagne magnums? Goodness me, they're a bit nice.
No bingeing but a bit too much snacking.
Hey HO. Fasting today.

Hey Amanda..... I am trying a fast today. But I was aiming to just have one main meal, and liquids the rest of the day. Given your experience, is that a good approach?

Milly i love the sound of your highlights. I need highlights.... the grey is taking over!!!

Hope Hazel is okay. I'll pm her to see if she is all right.

Oh yes wellies I'd say that's the approach that works best for me.
Good luck.
Yesterday I skipped b and l and had risotto for dinner, plus a glass of wine.
Today I skipped b. had a cheese sandwich and mini cheddars for lunch and just had spag Bol and a magnum for dinner.
Oops.

HAZEL!
Don't be shy.

Hello, sorry it's been a while

I'd feel a bit of a fraud posting here at the moment. Healthy eating just isn't happening. It should be and I know it should be but the pesky baby inside me just wants me to eat bourbon biscuits.

11 weeks pregnant and have felt sick as a dog throughout! I've lost 4lbs since finding out but stupid comedy boobs are getting even bigger. I need a tankini - cheap preferably - can I find one? Can I hell. Plus I don't even know what size I am and I have been burying my head in the sand. Well, no more! I'm going to do a massive bravissimo/figleaves order this evening and hopefully find one that fits before my short trip to a spa hotel (where I will be indulging in the pregnancy package)

Baby due 10th December but that might change at 12 week scan. I have to wait alllllll the way until 2nd June for that but hey ho. It's only just over a week now.

1st trimester not exactly been kind to me - although I am thankful I haven't actually been sick. I have, however, been covered in spots, bloated, had 24hr nausea, mouth ulcers, constant cramps, OMG the exhaustion - I haven't even got the energy to paint my nails, the worry, the hormones, the crying, the binge eating on bourbons (I am ashamed at how many packets of these I've eaten), the refusal to eat anything that might actually be good for me.

I am aware that it could be so much worse though and I am just thrilled to be pregnant, I'd take the 1st trimester woes every day in exchange for a healthy baby at the end of it (none of you are allowed to remind me of this when I'm super uncomfortable in November )

I cannot stomach the idea of alcohol so the not drinking has been easy. Otherwise, my diet has been shocking. Staples include McDonalds (3 in a month. Whoops), orange juice, diet coke (yes, I know, caffeine. Bad), chocolate in any form but especially in the form of bourbons, milk even better with bourbons dunked in it, pasta, rice (plain), egg fried rice, chips, Chinese takeaway.

Exercise? Non-existent. I started well - at 4 weeks I was on the X-trainer and doing weights and core work. Then the nausea started and there was absolutely no way I was doing anything more than going to work, sitting on the sofa, going to bed at 8pm

This weekend I am going to attempt to get on track. Today we're going car hunting, then I'm going to do a few loads of washing, shape my nails, enjoy a long soak in the bath, order tankinis and bras and paint my nails. Tomorrow I'm going food shopping & I'm going to clean out the chicken coop. Monday I will probably sit on my arse and read a book. Actually, I'll make up a big fruit salad for the week and maybe do some batch cooking. That's the plan anyway.

Are you all ok?

Sorry this post is so long. Promise to be a better Revolutionary!