Bank Holiday Monday & the rest of the week

Hurray for Bank Holidays! I ♥ them.

We started ours off with a rather relaxed pace. A nice porridge breakfast, a brief walk with the pugs and finally getting showered and dressed. We were off for lunch in the New Forest with 2 of our friends and their daughter. It was such a perfect day for it, the sun was shining and the sky was blue. We made it down to the New Forest in about 45 minutes, we got stuck behind a herd of cows in the road which slowed us down a fair bit.

At the pub we had a constant battle against wasps, they were everywhere. We had a drink outside before heading into eat our food. I ordered a wholemeal baguette with chicken dijionnaise, a side salad and some chips. All washed down with a pint of diet coke. It was nice, but nothing special. I fancied a pud, but our friends little girl was getting a bit restless so we decided to go for a walk in a big field opposite the pub. After that we said our goodbyes and headed home. We made it back home in record time, only 25 minutes. It's therefore become a perfect meeting place for us to get together as its exactly half way between us.

When we got home we took the dogs for a longer dog walk up to the park, and guess what? We saved yet another pooch! This time it was some sort of terrier tearing through the park (which backs onto MOD land) chasing the most heckled up cat I've ever seen. I rugby tackled our own dogs to the ground (as they love to join a good old fashioned chase) and Ben intercepted the dog chasing the cat just before it disappeared through the hedge into MOD land after the cat. A few minutes later the man who owned the dog appeared and thanked us for stopping his dog - apparently he didn't know she could still run that fast!! I think we really do need some sort of award for the amount of dogs we save, I just hope that if our dogs ever went missing someone would be as thoughtful as we are.

Aside from breakfast and lunch, Sunday dinner was a tuna steak stir fry. I didn't fancy it one bit, but the tuna steaks had to be eaten. It was nice enough though. Afterwards I made up a plate of strawberries and sliced banana and had 40g of melted 85% cocoa chocolate and a mini fondue! Yum.

This week my goals and aims are as follows:
* Food Diary everyday
* Exercise 5 times
* Beat 36 lengths in 30 minutes at the swimming pool
* Run 9 miles (thinking probably a 3 miler and 6 miler)
* 2 litres of water a day

Food for today is as follows:

Breakfast: usual porridge combo & protein shake (left my berocca at home!)

Mid Morning: Banana

Lunch: Protein Shake, Amaranth and Quinoa Rye Bread, Fiery Chilli Houmous, Cheese cubes, spinach, cucumber, tomato, ham (kind of a build your own sandwich)

Mid Afternoon: Strawberry, Raspberry, Blueberry & Greengage Medley.

Dinner: Quesadilla with Salad.