A trip to the cafe

Breakfast
Jordan's Jumbo Oats with skimmed milk, Apple & Cinnamon (pictured)

Boiled Egg
Cup of Tea made with skimmed milk

Lunch

Jacket Potato with Tuna Mayonnaise and side salad without dressing
Hot Chocolate

Dinner
M&S Haddock with baked beans
Weight Watchers Dessert

Snacks

4 x Tea with skimmed milk
2 pints water
Fairy Cake

Exercise

Another jog/walk - 19 minutes jogging this time (and 2 hills!)

Stats for the day

Daily calorie allowance - 1604
Exercise calories earned - 178
Total calorie allowance - 1782
Calories consumed - 1911
Calories over quota - 129
Calories to maintain current weight - 2604
Fruit & Veg portions - 5.3

Thoughts on the day

I'm feeling pleased with today. I went out for an unexpected lunch with my sister and boyfriend to a lovely cafe just down the road in Saul (http://www.thestablescafe.co.uk/index.html) which could have been disastrous. I went last Wednesday with my best friend having not seen her for over 3 months and enjoyed a chicken, mozzarella and pesto panini with quite a large bowl of chips on the side and a hot chocolate with cream and marshmallows.

Now I'm not saying it was bad, it was bloody lovely, but today's choices were a smidge healthier. I still had a hot chocolate (I think allowing myself a little 'treat' once a day will help to keep me on track) but this time without the cream and marshmallows. I also had a jacket potato instead of a bread based lunch & chips!

I also went out on another small jog which I'm also pleased with. Another 2km. I know it doesn't look like much and it certainly wasn't fast but it's better than doing nothing. And with the hills I did feel like I'd done something. I'm still a far cry away however from the girl who did the Bristol 10k last May but I'll get there.

The eagle eyed amongst you may have noticed that my calorie allowance has gone up slightly, but this is due to having put on a few lbs over the New Year period. I'm not going to beat myself up about it, I'm still on track for what I want to achieve this year.

Tomorrow will be another 'test' day. I'm meeting some friends for coffee in the afternoon followed by dinner in the evening. We've yet to decide where we'll be going but I'm going to make a special effort to choose wisely in my food choices wherever we end. If I go over my calories, so be it, but there's going over by a small amount that you can make up for with exercise later, and going over in the 'sod it I'm out for dinner I'll have 3 courses' amount, that comes in at 1000kcals over and buggers you up for the rest of the week. I'm aiming for the former.

In other news, I'm still waiting to hear from the insurance company, but Sam has two interviews lined up for this week. A second interview at the place he interviewed at before Christmas on Friday, and a first interview on Thursday for a company in the Gloucestershire area. We're extremely excited about both options :) Here's hoping I get some news tomorrow since people will be back to work after the bank holiday.

Fingers crossed!