Monday 1st - Day Seven

Up at 6.45am

7.20am – Two boiled eggs, one rasher of bacon, two mushrooms and three cherry tomatoes

12.15pm – 8 nuts (one of each in my jar of mixed nuts right now…cashew, macadamia, hazelnut, pistachio, brazil, pecan, walnut and almond) plus a small chestnut flour ‘scone’ (I write the word scone like that because today they seem more like a muffin).

3.00pm – Natural yoghurt and half a mango with a teaspoon of honey drizzled on, then a tablespoon each of unsweetened desiccated coconut and mixed seeds sprinkled on top.

A few nuts whilst preparing dinner and then…

7.50pm – A lamb stew made with left over roast lamb from yesterday, onions, carrots and mushrooms (with a little red wine, garlic and herbs) served on a bed of curly kale with a little butternut squash on the side.

I have started the squat challenge and the crunch challenge and I have completed the first day of those today.

Plus 25 bottom lifts (same position as a crunch but lift bottom off ground clenching bottom and stomach muscles – this was recommended by the physio to help my back pain) and 20 leg lifts (lie on my side and lift top leg up and down slowly and controlled, then place that foot on the floor with leg bent and lift the lower leg. Got this exercise from Mr Motivator…remember him? It is good for the thigh, both outer and inner. Then change sides and go again).

So that is my exercise for today, and I will be repeating most days (rest days are built in) gradually increasing the amounts each day.