Another Day

I'm still in pain from this bloody infected elbow, its uncomfortable to put it down so typing is awkward and I have to have it proped up on books. Head office are being a pain in the arse about sick certificates from the doctor and I'll have to phone and ask them to bridge the gap between the first 7 days when I can self certify and the final 7 when the doctor signed me off, it would have been better if the woman had explained why I needed to do this rather than tell me 'I just have to!', most unhelpful.

Did my 20 minutes HIIT this morning and boy is it a killer, because it is self monitored based on effort you can't cheat it, a lot of people would stick with a routine and use machine settings until they were reviewed, with HIIT the effort adjusts the fitter you get, so I'll be this knackered even when I'm as fit as a flea, good in some ways, hell in others.

I've had wholewheat flakes with dried fruit this morning, I prefer Fruit and Fibre but I was only able to go to M&S on the way in, also bought some cold chicken (real not mechanically recovered stuff) and some water. I'll have it split over 3 small meals whilst at work;12, 2 and 5 in a small brown pitta each time which will give me my carbs and protein. The cereal isn't ideal but there is protein in the milk (skimmed), I need to work some fruit and veg into my diet too, this is something I really fall down on.

Weight loss today was marginal, I think because I had ham in my pittas yesterday, its quite high in salt and fat, I'll be sticking with chicken, turkey, tuna most of the time from now on as these are pretty good from that point of view as long as the tuna is in spring water and not brine or oil.

I'm starting not to crave crisps which is good because I had been missing them, sweets and chocolate are another matter but I really want to show a weight loss when I go and see the diabetes nurse next week so I'm stearing clear :)