Shoes, Shoes, Shoes

Hi di hi campers, another scorchio day here in Oxfordshire :-)

Started the day with a bowl of cornflakes, to hot for much else at the mo and didn't have anything else in really.

Lunch again I was feeling really hot and couldn't be bothered really to eat anything so I had a smoothie.

I baked some cupcakes ready for my cupcake class tomorrow and then Rach and Cat picked me up at 2pm to go to Milton Keynes shoe shopping. We were looking for bridesmaid shoes. We either want brown or orange to go with our dresses. We must have looked at 100's of shoes but nothing!!! So another trip is to be planned! I did however have a lush caramel lite frapp from starbucks- pure heaven!

Dinner tonight was a carbonara but a bit lower fat. Recipe here from "Cook yourself thin". Love that show, she has some really nice recipes and looks like my all time idol Audrey Hepburn. Her website is here.

Picture of the day is of our gorgeous Molly. if you have time could you please vote for her in an Iams competition, she wins some yummy food if she gets enough votes. Just click here to vote

Right i'm off to cool down and watch Big Brother in bed then a bit of reading. What's everyone reading at the moment? I'm reading "Ask & It's Given: Learning to Manifest the Law of Attraction"

Catch ya laters

Jess xx

I'm back!

Sorry guys for not posting for a couple of weeks. As you know from my last post I had an operation to remove my gall bladder. Well shortly after that post I was rushed back to hospital as I had a bile leak. They had cut my bile duct while doing the op. The pain was like nothing I have ever experienced. The doctors have said it's one of the most painful things. So I spent quite a while longer in hospital. But now back home and able to recover properly thank god!! Feeling a lot better but still not allowed to doing any exercise apart from walking. So not sure how it's going to affect weight loss. I did lose 2.5lbs this week though so not too shabby.

I'm going to concentrate on eating well and recovering from my op until I get back doing my workouts.

Weather is amazing here at the moment and looks to be good all week. Me and phil are thinking of going on a picnic at the weekend. Can't wait. Trying to decide on where to go- we could go somewhere pretty close or could do a 2 hour trip to the seaside. Hmmm decisions!

This morning I had Nestle Oats & more honey for breakfast. It's so yummy. It's a bit too hot for oatmeal at the moment.

I then had some raspberries with Rachel's Pouring yoghurt for a mid morning snack. Still loving that ouring yoghurt!

Lunch was 2 poached eggs on seeded bread.

One of my best friends Nat came over to watch the England game with me. Sooo glad we won! Bring on Sunday!!!

I'm loving maxi dresses at the moment. In this hot weather they are great and hide my wobbly bits! I had another one arrive today from asos.com. It's so comfy. You can see it here.

Tomorrow afternoon me Rach and Cat are going to Milton Keynes shoe shopping! We need to choose some shoes for Cat's wedding. Me and Rach are bridesmaids! So looking forward to a girly day tomorrow :-)

Ok my new crush is Channing Tatum! I saw "Dear John" the other day and I have fallen in love with him, he is soooooooo sexy! Check this fine man out!(Source)

Bedtime reading

Top 10 Tips for a healthy diet

Hope everyone is good.

Mucho love

Jess xx

Feeling Horrid!

On Thursday I had surgery to remove my gall bladder. It should have been day surgery but there was a few complications so I ended up staying in for an extra day.

I'm now at home but feeling horrid, my wounds hurt a bit and feeling sick etc. To be expected I suppose. So apologies if I don't post regularly this week. Plus It's not really a good time to blog about healthy eating as in the past 4 days I have eaten: half a turkey sandwich, 1 yogurt, 1 weetabix, a few spoons of oatmeal, slice of toast and a small bit of lasagne my nan made which did not stay down!

I'm currently looking all over the internet for foods to eat after my surgery but not finding much so if anyone has any links or info please let me know.

I've asked Phil to pick up some soups and rice milk from the supermarket oh and some apple sauce baby food. I'm finding it hard to eat at the moment but It's been stressed I need to keep fuelled so my body can recover and heal.

Hoping in a day or 2 I'll feel a lot better. Hate being stuck in bed!!!

Sorry!

So sorry for not posting for a little while. Just been a bit busy which is no excuse!

Good news is I lost 2lb this week. Had my weigh in last night and I was really surprised as wasn't expecting to lose any. Need to get back on track with the exercise!

Today for breakie I had Nestle Honey Oats & More- they are so so yummy. My new fave cereal!

Was really busy with work today. I have a project going live this week and it's been throwing all sort of problems out so it'snot been fun. Also today was a massive disappointment as this Thursday I'm due for an operation. I've been told I need 2 weeks off and then I can work from home for a number of weeks after that. But I only have 8 days paid sick days left as i've not been at the company for a year. I was told by my boss originally I could book the 2nd week as holiday but now she is saying she can't. Me and Phil have had a lot of money problems for the past 18 months with losing jobs etc so my salary basically keeps us afloat. I can't afford not to be paid. So I told my boss I have no option but to return to work (from home) after a week. God knows how i'll feel. I just really want a job that I love :-(

Anyway doom and gloom over!

Lunch was a souper affair :-)

Then more work :-(

After working I made some walnut and carrot bread, was really nice. You can find the easy recipe here. I had a piece dipped in balsamic vinegar :-) and then another slice with honey :-)

Dinner I made a morroccan lamb tagine with cous cous, really yummy dinner.

I went to Rachel's house while Phil was at football practice. We are planning Cat's hen do so had lots of fun putting the goody bags together!!

Now i'm in bed after a stressful day and praying for that lottery win again so I can leave the stinky job and focus on my cake business!

Ok the pics for today are of our 2 house rabbits Muffin (black & white) and Poppy (white). Cuteness!

Ok question for today: If you could do any job in the world what would you do? Mine would be running a little animal shelter for rabbits and small pets. Love those little critters! Poppy was from a rescue home and there are so many pets just left unwanted by owners :-(

Day at Alton Towers

Today me and Phil went to Alton Towers. It's about a 2 hour drive away. Today was always going to be non healthy!

Breakfast was a sausage egg mcmuffin from McDonalds. Lunch was a peri peri chicken breast burger with fries. I didn't eat the bun and didn't eat all the fries.

Alton Towers is massive and you are pretty much walking all day. I'm actually writing this part of the blog in the queue for a brand new ride called THI3TEEN. We have a 90 minute wait- it better be good!

Tomorrow I can't wait to see the sex & the city 2. I've booked my ticket at 5pm and going by myself! No one else can make it until next week and I cannot wait that long!!

Ok the ride was good. Not amazingly fast but still good. It had a freefall drop involved and then went backwards. So took you by surprise a bit!

It's a long day and now we are home and it's not even 9pm and we are thinking of going up to bed.
I'm feeling really groggy because I've put so much crap in my body today. We got a banana and chocolate pancake there too and whilst the 1st bite was nice it made me feel sick and have had a headache since. Plus had a kitkat in the 90 minute queue too. See I know this food makes me feel crap so why do I eat it?!!

I've put some pics on from today but uploading from my blackberry and can't work out how to move them!!

Night all and sorry for a bit of a boring blog today. It has not been a healthy day at all!!!


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The rain is back

The rain came back today :-( Mind you we did need it. Hope it clears up soon though as tomorrow me and Phil are going to Alton Towers! Yay!!!! And the weekend we are supposed to be going to a BBQ for Ryan's birthday.

Today for breakfast I had strawbs and raspberries with Rachel's pouring yogurt with a hint of honey. It's really really really yummy. Even better than cream and per 100g it has 67 kcal and 1.0g sat fat. not too shabby.




For a snackeroo I had 2 pumpkin and oat ryvitas with low fat cottage cheese and some ham on top. Nice :-)



Lunch was a prawn cocktail made with extra light mayo . Not had this for ages and was really craving it. Really enjoyed it and next time I'm going to have it in a jacket potato as I used to lurve that!




Bored of work and wanting a sweet treat I drove 20 miles to the nearest Starbucks for a Caramel Light Frapp. However I have not recreated this at home this evening. Not exactly the same but still good!




Dinner was trout with a little salt, pepper and dill. With new potatoes, asparagus and a courgette fritter. Love those little fritters :-)

So what are peoples thoughts on the Lost finale? I really liked it. From an emotional side anyway but not from a mystery solving angle, I left a lot was left unexplained. but overall I was happy with the outcome. I think a few people are unclear on what it meant and i've spent most of today trying to explain it to people. I found this link which pretty much is what I think: Click here.

Did 30 mins on the cross trainer tonight at a high intensity. I really need to do some weights/toning this week though. I tend to do less of that.

What is your favourite way to unwind?

Mine is a nice meal, glass of wine. Nice hot bath with a face and hair pack then chill in bed with a good book :-)

BBQ season!

We are having some fab weather here in the UK at the moment! Loving it.

Sorry for lack of postage! Here is a quick recap...

Friday was my day off so started with a bowl of strawbs and natural yogurt. Then off to the pet shop to get supplies and then £stretcher for some plant pots.

Went to see one of my best mates Nat to see her 2 new kitties! Soooooooooooooooo cute!!!

Then stopped off at starbucks on the way home for a caramel lite frappachino- god I love thoses. And not too bad at 3 ww points for a grande. It feels like a real treat.

Lunch I was running sooo late and was starving and hate to stop at another friends so stopped at Macdonoalds- I know not healthy but I opted for a chicken sub with salad for 7 points so was not too naughty!!!

After stopping at Cat's for a bit went to B&Q and Homebase to get some more plants etc for the garden. Then got home about 4.20 and spent 2 hours planting and repotting. Also put a hanging basket together.

Dinner was noodles and satay prawn. Really nice :-) Then a few of us went to Cat & Tylers for a few drinkies in the garden. Lush day really :-)

Saturday we went to the Bluebell woods with my sis (Charlotte), Ryan and Connor. Took a picnic and had a fab time. Really nice hot day and great to spend time with my fave people.

Then back home for more gardening pimping. Saturday a load of us are went out and we had a VIP section in the club with Champers. I ended up not having dinner as was rushing to get ready and come 2am Phil was pleading for us to go and get food. So we drunkardly strolled to the kebab shop for a cheeseburger/kebab!! I know bad times.

Sunday was a miracle that I wasn't hungover and for breakfast I had a bowl of Cinnamon Grahams. We then got some free garden furniture of some friends which is great so we can now eat dinner outside!! So for lunch/dinner we had a BBQ. We had burgers (mine was wrapped in a lettuce leaf), beef kebobs, salad, tomato and mozzarella and potato salad. Yummy.

Yesterday I had breakfast outside as it was sooo hot- glass of water and cereal. Then did some work and then sweated it out in the garden planting stuff. Snack was an Activia yogurt.

Lunch I made a prawn and courgette pasta with a homemade pesto I did. Really delish.

For dinner we wanted to use our mini bucket BBQ so we had a chicken breast with sun-dried tomato and basil marinade and teriyaki skewers with salad. The salad was with feta and walnuts- lush!

I was supposed to go to weight watchers weigh in Monday night but I felt like I'd eaten too much and expected a gain so didn't go. But woke up this morning and new there was one at 9.30am. I went and put on 0.5lb so not as terrible as I thought. I think the main reason is since me feeling better from my clod bug thing I hadn't got back into my exercise. Back on track now!

So now to today! Breakfast was poached egg on toast and cup of tea :-)

Lunch I had a veggie burger in a roll with salad. Followed by an Activia yogurt.

In the afternoon I eased myself back in with a 30 min cross trainer workout. Then I chilled out for a bit to read through my two books that arrived this morning. The books to the Sex and the City Movies. I'm not reading the 2nd one until I see the film on Friday though!! Can't wait.

Right off to watch the Lost finale!!!!