Sexy bike and food poisoning.

The two seem somewhat unconnected, I guess, but they are what has been happening.

I picked the sexy bike up on sunday. It is a Dawes hertiage range 'Duchess' and it is beautiful. I may have kissed and stroked the frame a couple of times while I thought no-one was looking.

It also has a basket. This is the pinnacle of my joy, better than kittens, orgasms and my hirtherto true love/nemesis, chocolate caramel digestives combines.

I needed to practice on my bike, so we cycled out of Norwich. It was smooth and lovely and easy to use, changing gears was a cinch, and because of that I got overconfident and promptly crashed on a sharp corner. I grazed my leg badly, but the bike was fine. I'm sure you all know it was my first concern.


The plan is to start cycling into work, and going on a cycle ride together at least once a week. I'm still finding it hard to remember to exercise very day, but this is something I enjoy so hopefully it'll help. I still regularly eat too much junkfood, but I am slowly cutting down and I'm not being too hard on myself- that way guilt and binge-eating lies.

Now, to food posioning. One of the home-prepared healthy lunches seriously disagreed with me, waking me up at four am to be sick. No more short-dated salmon for me thanks. I was sick till twelve noon, and spent the rest of the day allowing myself whatever  craved, figuring my body probably needed it. This may have led to me eating golden syrup from the tin with a spoon.

I gots me a BIKE.

And it's sexier that yours, uh-huh.

I'm picking it up tomorrow.

It's called Duchess, and it has a basket.

Ah fuck

Two posts in one day you say?

Yes.

I have to be honest you see.
 I finished the icecream. Just now.
And now I have ice-cream nausea.

To be fair, it is Ben and Jerry's. And it IS Phish Food. I didn't really have a choice when I put it like that.

Bad moody

I must be in a foul mood, as the urge to comfort eat became all I could think about. Distract myself with the lovely Offbeatbride.com? Nope. Play frontierville on facebook? Nope. Do what I inteneded to do today and actually do some fucking writing? You must be kidding.

And to top it all off, my second graze box (you probably remember me talking about the graze box in my last post) didn't arrive till one today.
So I ate some icecream.
However, the change in my diet must be sticking, because I ate four or five spoonfuls before thinking 'you know, I'm done' and putting it back in the freezer. Go me!

And then I ate the entirety of my graze box. In five minutes.

At least, if I must comfort eat, I can do it on things that don't make me feel like Mr Blobby.

Grazing for health and weight-loss

My box arrived from graze.com, and just in time- I'd eatedn a healthy, balanced breakfast and was starving and was eyeing the chocolate caramel digestives like they were my only hope.

See My Graze Box here

The first thing I thought about the graze box was 'wow, that's small, Are we sure that'll fill me up?' but after just sampling a few things I wasn't nearly as hungry. And it was delicious, too! I've opted for the 'wellbeing' box for this first box, but there are several you can choose from.

The idea is they send you a box made up of nutritionally balanced goodies from a list of likes and dislikes, and you pick at it throughout the day- have a healthy breakfast and dinner, and graze on the box. We'll see how well that works for me. It's nearly lunchtime and all...

On other news, have started exercising at home again. Nothing much, some weights, some crunches, some squats. I'm figuring that the days I'm at home I'll try and get up once an hour and do some exercise. Soon, I will be ridiculously fit again.

Edit- the graze box helped me eat a much healthier lunch than I otherwise would have done. Wholemeal pasta with homemade tomato and vegetable sauce.

Recipe: Please not I do not weigh or measure anything.
About a handful of wholemeal pasta per person eating, cooked to taste.
Sauce:
Garlic
Mushrooms
Broccoli
Peppers
Chopped Tomatoes
Tomato puree
Quarter veg stock cube
Teapsoon marmite
Mixed italian seasoning, pepper, rosemary, all to taste
Mixed beans
Pearl Barley
Olive Oil

Heat the olive oil in a pan, and fry the garlic on a low het. Chop the vegetables, and add to the garlic. Add the chopped tomatoes and tomato puree. Cook together for a few minutes, add the water, stock cube, marmite, beans and barley. Cook. Eat when the sauce has thickened.
Serve with wholemeal pasta, cooked to taste.

I made enough to have some for lunch at work tomorrow.

SO, I haven't been updating.

Mainly cause I went kind of crazy (long story short, apparently how I felt every day was not normal but is a sign of longstanding chemical anxiety and depression) And pigged out on junkfood for a month. SOmehow, I still lost weight.

but I've given up on fad diets. They don't work, the make me hungry and depressed and irritated and bored. Instead I have signed up to graze.com and will be eating right, not less. The weight loss will be slower, perhaps, but healthier.

Oh! And I'm getting a bike! A NICE bike.