With no demanding project and summer time started last week at work (we get off an hour earlier June-August) I didn’t have any more excuses for not going to the gym. So today I bit the bullet and went. As usual I started with stepping on the scale and to my surprise I hadn’t gained one single gram. My weight is still not what I would like it to be, but the changes I felt and seen in my body the last months are just me becoming unfit and flabby. At least some sort of comfort…
My summer holiday starts in six weeks and my goal is to focus very much on my eating and exercise until then. One day at a time, turning into one week at a time. Reading The Sunday Times yesterday I found some tips that might help me along the way.
Breakfast time
Swap cereal and toast for muesli and fruit
Have a scone, fruit salad, coffee and yoghurt instead of a muffin
Ditch the croissant for poached eggs, tomatoes and toast
Make a bacon sarnie with lean bacon, tomato and ketchup
Out to lunch
Skip shop-bought baguettes and make your own pitta pockets
Have a baked potato with beans and salad instead of cheese and butter
Avoid mayonnaise-rich tuna sandwiches and make your own
Choose minestrone or gazpacho instead of fattening soups
Chocoholics
Coat toast with chocolate spread for your pain au chocolat fix
Melt-in-the-mouth milk buttons instead of a slab of chocolate
Have a kit kat with two servings of fruit instead of a mars bar
Low-fat mousse with biscotti fills the chocolate brownie vacuum
Snack attack
Replace salted peanuts with a raisin and peanut mix
Snack on olives and give hoummos and crudites a miss
Skip the tortilla chips and choose a tzatziki vegetable dip
Forget the flapjack and tuck in to a jam and cream scone
Having a drink
Turn your wholemilk cappuccino into a skinny cappuccino snack
Take hot drinks with smimmed milk and without sugar
Swap a smoothie for three pieces of fresh fruit and drink water
Cut wine measures and enjoy a long spritzer drink
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