JessyG24
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What has the planned exercise turned out to be?
Fab about trying a new recipe every day! xxxx
Ruby's Starting Over (Again!)
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What has the planned exercise turned out to be?
Fab about trying a new recipe every day! xxxx
dominoes
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Ooh, they sound great! So impressive that you've tried so many new recipes. I am terrible at getting stuck eating the same old thing over and over again. Have you tried putting the beetroot in a food processor to avoid the grating? Thou I can imagine that would be a big purple mess...
rubyeskimo
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What has the planned exercise turned out to be?
Fab about trying a new recipe every day! xxxx
Was 30 minutes of cardio bootcamp followed by 10 minutes of abs and obliques. Tonight it's an hour of barre which is fine because I used to do ballet. There is one exercise that makes my legs burn like crazy but it's all worth it!
rubyeskimo
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Most of the time I eat the same thing for breakfast and lunch all week because it's just easier that way to plan (and works out cheaper) and then I try to have something different for dinner each night so I don't get bored.
I don't actually have a food processor but grating the beetroot worked out fine. I was just worried about staining my hands but just held onto it with a a freezer bag over my hand it worked fine.
rubyeskimo
Silver Member
Morning everyone! It's Friday and after today I'm off for a week. I haven't had an entire week off work for a year so I'm rather excited. Shame I have so much stuff to get done by then, but I am insisting on leaving early and anything that isn't done can wait till I'm back.
Beetroot burgers kind of fell apart last night so I turned it into a bit more of a hash and added the feta and it was gorgeous. Just had it with some mixed leaves and have the leftovers (again with mixed leaves) for lunch today. Think I need to have a ratio of more beans to beetroot but I think it was the other way round this time. New recipe of the day is fishcakes tonight which I'm rather excited about. Also we've decided to start having a Disney movie night every week so we can be prepared for the honeymoon. Would like to point out that this was OH's idea, not mine! Tonight it's 2 classics: Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King. Then tomorrow I'm having a day in London with the girls so lots of walking (we're even doing an Oscar Wilde walking tour!) and maybe some wine.
Day 23 - Extra Easy
Breakfast - bran flakes, apple, shape ff yogurt
Lunch - Leftover beetroot, black bean and feta hash, mixed leaves
Dinner - Fishcakes (cod, potato, courgette, carrot, onion, breadcrumbs), SW Chips, mushy peas
Snacks - banana, 2 clementines, metcalfe's skinny topcorn
HEA - Feta
HEB - Branflakes
Syns - 9.5
Exercise - 1 hour total body barre
Beetroot burgers kind of fell apart last night so I turned it into a bit more of a hash and added the feta and it was gorgeous. Just had it with some mixed leaves and have the leftovers (again with mixed leaves) for lunch today. Think I need to have a ratio of more beans to beetroot but I think it was the other way round this time. New recipe of the day is fishcakes tonight which I'm rather excited about. Also we've decided to start having a Disney movie night every week so we can be prepared for the honeymoon. Would like to point out that this was OH's idea, not mine! Tonight it's 2 classics: Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King. Then tomorrow I'm having a day in London with the girls so lots of walking (we're even doing an Oscar Wilde walking tour!) and maybe some wine.
Day 23 - Extra Easy
Breakfast - bran flakes, apple, shape ff yogurt
Lunch - Leftover beetroot, black bean and feta hash, mixed leaves
Dinner - Fishcakes (cod, potato, courgette, carrot, onion, breadcrumbs), SW Chips, mushy peas
Snacks - banana, 2 clementines, metcalfe's skinny topcorn
HEA - Feta
HEB - Branflakes
Syns - 9.5
Exercise - 1 hour total body barre
rubyeskimo
Silver Member
Morning everyone! Had a lovely weekend; Friday we stayed in and watched a couple of Disney films in preparation for the honeymoon (Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King), Saturday I went into London with the book club girls for a literary day out (Oscar Wilde walking tour, British Library and the Sherlock Holmes Museum) and then yesterday we went around some wedding fairs. Bumped into our photographers at one of them and spent almost an hour chatting to them. Confirmed that we definitely made the right decision booking them, they are so nice and make us feel so relaxed, which is good when you're not too keen having your photo taken and they're going to be following you about a lot of the day!
Weighed in this morning and I've lost 1.5lbs despite it being * week. Just goes to show that the working out does actually do something! Oh and sticking to plan too! Now have 10lbs to go till I hit my interim target. I'm definitely going to go down to 10 stone exactly and then take it from there. I still want to have some curves and I don't want to be a size 8 as it wouldn't look good on my frame I think so it's a case of seeing what I look like and making a decision from there.
So glad to have a week off; today I'm going to do my workout (1 hour of mixed cardio and strength) and then just chilling out on the sofa! Hope you all had a good weekend and have a good week too!
Day 26 - Green
Breakfast - Porridge made with water, banana, honey, mixed berries
Lunch - Pasta with mushrooms, spinach, peas, leeks, low low cheese spread
Dinner - Jacket potato, baked beans, grated cheese, salad
Snacks - clementine, kiwis, mixed berries, shape ff yogurt, weetabix oaty bar
HEA - grated cheddar / low low spread
HEB - Oats / weetabix oaty bar
Syns - 2
Exercise - 1 hour cardio and strength
Weighed in this morning and I've lost 1.5lbs despite it being * week. Just goes to show that the working out does actually do something! Oh and sticking to plan too! Now have 10lbs to go till I hit my interim target. I'm definitely going to go down to 10 stone exactly and then take it from there. I still want to have some curves and I don't want to be a size 8 as it wouldn't look good on my frame I think so it's a case of seeing what I look like and making a decision from there.
So glad to have a week off; today I'm going to do my workout (1 hour of mixed cardio and strength) and then just chilling out on the sofa! Hope you all had a good weekend and have a good week too!
Day 26 - Green
Breakfast - Porridge made with water, banana, honey, mixed berries
Lunch - Pasta with mushrooms, spinach, peas, leeks, low low cheese spread
Dinner - Jacket potato, baked beans, grated cheese, salad
Snacks - clementine, kiwis, mixed berries, shape ff yogurt, weetabix oaty bar
HEA - grated cheddar / low low spread
HEB - Oats / weetabix oaty bar
Syns - 2
Exercise - 1 hour cardio and strength
Where you having your Honeymoon ???
rubyeskimo
Silver Member
Having a week in Disneyworld and then 4 nights in New York. Never been to america so it's doubly exciting!
rubyeskimo
Silver Member
Yay !
Kay xx
Thanks Kay! I'll pop over to your diary in a bit and see how you've been getting on!
Kay003
Gold Member
My cousins are in Florida, I've been to Disneyworld, its AMAZING !!! Your gonna love it Rubs ! Be prepared for the lovely portion sizes with their food, its HUGE !
You wont be complaining, hehe. You and your OH are gonna have a brill time, I can tell you that . Never been NYC but my sis has and some of my friends too, they say its fab ! It will be a trip to remember that's for sure xxIts fabulous I have been to America lots of times in fact i got married in Florida
so my honeymoon was a Disney one. I did a disneyworld holiday Feb2014 you will love it.rubyeskimo
Silver Member
I'm fully anticipating putting a lot of weight on while I'm over there but with all the walking at Disney and around New York may minimise the damage too!
rubyeskimo
Silver Member
OMG I've just booked my first appointment to look (and try on) wedding dresses! Going on Friday night with my mum and I'm nervous and excited at the same time. This store has the 2 dresses I love in stock so hopefully will get to try them on! Definitely not looking to buy but will be nice to get an idea if what I like the look of will actually suit me.
rubyeskimo
Silver Member
Thanks guys. As soon as I got off the phone I wanted to phone and cancel because I was a little freaked out. This is probably the most important part of the planning after getting the venue! Had a rather lazy day today after working out this morning (even took a nap this afternoon!) but that's it for this week. Have a lot of sorting and organising to do over the next few days now which is good because I'm getting a little antsy just sitting around now!
JessyG24
Gold Member
So important and so exciting
don't freak out there is no need to; you are just trying on pretty dresses xxxx
