No Gym Required

Thank you for all your positive comments.

I’ve had a huge number of friend request’s, I guess due to this post.

Please feel free to message me.

I’m afraid I can’t offer you anything inspiring or encouraging by being my ‘friend’, my diary is truly normal, there are no secret ingredients.

I eat as my mother fed me in the 70s/80s, home cooked meals, nothing processed, fresh chicken or beef every night with vegetables including potatoes, rice even pasta. Lots of salad to bulk out meals. Fresh fruit. Breakfast on work days consists of rice cakes, sugar free organic peanut butter and a banana. Weekend breakfasts grilled bacon, fried egg whites, porridge oats with skimmed milk and pineapple, traditional English pancakes to name but a few. Home made soups or wraps of salad, cous cous and cottage cheese for lunch at work. I drink green tea or regular black tea, rarely cordial or squash never, ever soda.

When I fall off the ‘sweetie/cake’ wagon, I fall long and hard. This is a particularly bad week for me, there’s so much temptation at work as we’re collecting for charity ‘Comic Relief’ and I have given into it, for this week only though, is my mantra. When I'm bad I do try to incorporate it into my net daily calorie guidelines.

I exercise 5 mornings a week combining cardio and strength training and once the weather warms up I will back out on my bicycle in the evenings and weekends.

I’ve recently completed Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred. I’m about to begin Level 2 of 6 Week 6 Pack and have been doing various strength and weight lifting exercises from the Hasfit.com site.

I'm 6ft tall and weigh 143 lbs.