Weekend

HI All,

this weekend hasn't really been as healthy as I hoped.  Friday I went out for Lunch with my family. I had a smoked salmon and tomato salad to start, and then had a piece of Coley fish, with a lobster sauce, spinach, permentier potatoes, boiled new potatoes and turnip and carrot mash. Yummy.  Friday night I cleaned the house as I usually do, and for some reason I have absolutely no recollection of what I had for tea! ah well.

Saturday, I got up and juiced some beetroot, carrot and ginger, the beetroot and carrots being from my organic veg box from the previous week.  This was actually really yummy and I had two big glasses.

In the afternoon I went out for lunch with my friend Louise. We went to Gusto which is on the Quayside in Newcastle. Gusto has a 50% off sale on the food for January so excellent value.  Before we got to the restaurant I had a 'Bloody Shame' in a nearby bar, which is essentially a Bloody Mary without the alcohol! For lunch we first shared a tomato garlic pizza bread, and shared a tart as a starter which was tomato, goats cheese, caremelised red onion and cranberry, it was really lovely, should have taken some photos really.

Then for our main course, we both had Tagliatelle with garlic prawns, tomato, chilli and rocket. I have had this before and it was absolutely delicious. A lot of restaurants can overcook prawns but I have had this dish 3 times now and each time they were cooked perfectly.  After the restaurant we went back to the bar nearby, and met Louise's boyfriend, and they stayed on in town and I came home.

Today (sunday) i have not eaten that well to be fair. For breakfast I ended up having some quorn sausages and bacon, chopped tomatoes, two dry fried eggs and a tortilla wrap. The tortilla wrap wasnt great so I only ate about a third, and the quorn bacon was disgusting so I gave my three 'rashers' straight t the dog. I wont be buying that again!

This afternoon I have had a Linda McCartney leek onion and cheese plait, which struck me as not being very healthy, and made me feel a bit odd afterwards. I have also had some biscuits and the remainder of some Nobbys nuts out of the cupboard from Christmas. Oh dear.

Having done spinning on Thursday night in what must be the first time in 3 months or so, I now want to keep going if I can. I do really need to up my gym attendance, I find it makes such a difference to my mental health as well, although I don't want to be obsessed again like I was a few years ago.

I have signed up again for Spin class tomorrow night, so fingers crossed I make the effort after work to go!