Result!

I managed to hit 10,100 steps today.

Yipee

I did 9200 steps total  yesterday.

Dinner was a Lean Cuisine Lasagne, 300 calories. I was at a loss with regards to dinner, so I just popped into my local shop and picked it up.

July 29/30

Yesterday I didn’t have any bacon so I just made a mushroom omlette for breakfast. Lunch was my homemade chicken curry with steamed broccoli (I’m trying very hard not to eat rice). For dinner I purchased 200g of pork – fried it up with mushrooms & onions with a side of steamed broccoli.

I managed to walk 7350 steps, so that’s a slight improvement. Not the 10K I was hoping for, but better than 6K.

Today, on the 30th:

Breakfast – 3 slices of bacon, 2 large eggs scrambled with mushrooms, tomato and onion.

Lunch – chicken curry & cauliflower

I had told myself last night I needed to up my walking so this morning I walked to work. It took me nearly 40 minutes and when I got into the office I was quite the sweaty mess — thank the stars that I have personal wipes in the office. After 5 minutes sitting in my chair I felt good. I now feel quite energetic. I managed to walk 4600 steps between home and work. And since it is monthend here right  now I’m busily running around like a headless chicken, so I am racking up the steps. Yipee!

Not sure what to have for dinner yet. I’m thinking a really large salad.

July 28th – evening

My came over to the office to sign some documents so that she can apply for a CPP bump up called the “Child Rearing Provision” – seems if a woman takes time out to raise her kids and her income drops significantly CPP can discount those years (up to age 7 of the child) when calculating how much CPP a person would get once they retire. My mom doesn’t get much, about $200 per month, so this is a chance to bump it up a little.

As a “thank you” my mom offered to take me out for dinner. As she isn’t very mobile, one of her legs keeps dragging a little, I chose to go to “Marche” across the street from my office building. I got some pork tenderloin, roasted, and some roasted veggies. The veggies were horrid, someone put some sort of horrible spices on them which made them barely edible. So I chose to just eat the meat and have a salad at home. Mom had some chicken and rice, but the chicken was overcooked and dry.

So dinner – 5oz roasted pork tenderloin, 2c salad, 2c cucumber slices

My pedometer showed only 6000 steps so I’m not completely thrilled in that area.

July 22nd

I’ve had a relatively good day, food-wise.

Breakfast – 1oz chopped kelbasa, 1/4c chopped tomato, 1/4c chopped mushroom, 1tbsp chopped onion all fried with 2 large eggs.

Lunch – my beef stew (using the IPD recipe) with a side of broccoli. Yesterday I purchased a bag of salad and some italian dressing, so I also had a salad.

Dinner – pork butterfly-cut, mushrooms, onion, garlic and 1c broccoli.

I had taken up Lydia’s suggestion of going to St Lawrence Market, which I did after work. I spent some time just wandering about, checking what they have. Today I purchased the pork and some “organic” bacon, which I hope to try tomorrow morning. I think I shall continue getting my meat at the Market as I can easily ask for just a single chicken breast or just 2 links of sausage.

Managed to do 6000 steps today – not the greatest, but I’m hoping to have significantly better numbers on the weekend.

July 17th – evening

I couldn’t find my bathing suit so I had decided to go in search of a new one at the Eaton Centre. Sears Canada doesn’t seem to carry anything above size 16 unless the woman has huge tits – which I don’t, I’m a happy little B-cup. I went to Bikini Village and of course there was nothing. Addition-Elle had closed their store at the TEC and I wasn’t prepared to walk down to it after walk up to TEC. I found it disheartening to not be able to find anything. Does the vast majority of the retail world believe that fat women don’t wear bathing suits? That we don’t enjoy frolicking in the water?

I didn’t buy anything. Got home and went through my stuff and found my old bathing suit.

On to my dinner – I hadn’t prepared anything ahead of time, nothing was defrosted and I didn’t want to give in to the temptation of making some pancakes. Instead I was good and made myself a mushroom and tomato omelette.

I have also started to track how many steps I take in a day. Yesterday I did 7,500 steps and today it was 9,200 steps.

I’m currently waiting to hear from Diresquirrel with regards to an outing to a beach tomorrow.