Big Diet
Day 2 in the Big Diet House..
For breakfast today, I was packed off with an apple for the teacher and a pot of microwaveable porridge! Surely that is just normal oats packaged in an expensive plastic pot!
I left the breakfast until I arrived at work as I did not want to carry a rotting apple core about and I do not have a portable microwave. That was bad but I did jump off the bus two stops early and I walked the rest of the way.
I really wanted the porridge, but skipped that idea as the stress started the second I walked into the building! For the second day running I did not have time to pour a coffee either. Fortunately, I had some of the bottled water left and so was able to wash my water retention pill down and grab the apple, which I ate on the move while sorting out the problems.
I was kept busy until 1pm and then only stopped long enough to eat the lunch my wife had lovingly prepared for me. I had a Tupperware tub full of all kinds of leaves, shoots and roots topped with some naughty but tasty Mediterranean chicken slices. In a little jar she had packed me off with a home made salad dressing containing mustard seeds. I also had a set of eating irons so I did not have to use the office ones. There was a pair of scissors and a fresh green chili packed in my bag too.
I cut the chili up with the scissors and sprinkled it over my salad, then added the mustard seeds and the I tossed the salad. By this time a colleague returned with a takeaway ham salad costing £4.00 from the eatery in the building. My salad certainly looked better than the shop bought version. When I got over the idea that I was actually going to eat salad, I actually enjoyed it. The chilireally helped as did the salad dressing and that Mediterranean chicken.
I thought I would get a coffee after eating the salad but things remained stressy, so I never got around to it.
Again I left work 10 minutes early in order to walk the two bus stops distance across the park. My time sheet for the day was short again,but only by 5 minutes.
The bus made good time again so I hopped off the bus at Moorgate and walked to Liverpool Street train station where I met up with my family.
Dinner was served around 8:30 pm again, but as we did not get back home until 7:45 that was unavoidable.
Dinner was boiled rice with sweet corn and the portion size was as advised. The lamb curry made with a tomato base was twice the advised portion size to make up for the lack of vegetables. It was very tasty if a little naughty.
Shortly after dinner I was presented with strawberries with a few slices of banana topped with half fat creme fraiche. This was very naughty as I probably should not be having a sweet.