Progress Report

Dear Reader, I'm feeling like I've dropped the ball a bit. Whilst my committment to classes has been excellent (I'm managing to attend 5 classes a week) my adherence to the PLAN has been poor this week. I ate cake on Monday (but it was to help interpret legislation so it was absolutely necessary and you saw the picture, I simply had to eat it). To be fair I did manage to resist potato salad at my mother's house (anyone who knows my mother knows that that is a Herculean task in itself). My boss forced a piece of chocolate cake on me on Wednesday (I was on the phone and was eating it before I realised what happened). Yesterday having baked for a family get-together, I ate 3 cheese scones (from Stephanie Alexander's basic recipe with some finely chopped spring onions, tasty cheddar and some shave parmesan on top) but resisted the raspberry & white chocolate muffins (also from Stephanie with finely chopped Whittaker's white chocolate and a double handful of frozen raspberries added)... And BREATHE!

On the plus side I have been drinking magical green goo and we haven't eaten take out since this thing started.

Dinner last night was Roast Chicken with baked carrots, sweet potato, zucchini and steamed green beans. I spatchcocked the chicken and slashed its thighs so that it would cook faster/more evenly and just popped it on a rack over the sweet potato and the carrots. Carrots on the outside, surrounding the sweet potato as the carrots need a little more cooking. Chicken was rubbed with olive oil, then lemon juice and sprinkled with s&p. I cooked the zucchini on the rack after the chicken was removed to rest. Lunch today is a leftover vegetable salad with pumpkin seeds and a dressing of olive oil, apple cider vinegar, a clove of roast garlic from last night's dinner and 2 tsp of dijon, s&p, topped with sliced chicken breast (also left over from dinner).

Hope you all had a wonderful Australia Day - my friend Emma had her first Fusion class and NOW she understands what everyone else has been going on about. Thankyou Deborah for introducing me (and my new to Fusion friend) to the painful delights of the "drunken sailor" and the "sumo". Oh my! The glute stretch after was possibly worse than actually doing the exercises. Apologies to anyone else in that class - the groaning, gasping, sobbing and hysterical laughing was me. Sorry.

Ciao for now.