The Liquid Lifestyle

Apologies again. Mad couple of days getting very little of consequence done – though I did write a blog yesterday that may well be featured on the Women’s Equality Party Wales website at some point between now and the Assembly elections on 5^th May. Weirdly, despite spending most of both days in Starbucks, I smashed the hell out of my phone’s daily step-count yesterday and by the time you read this, I’ll have done the same again today. This proves nothing much, except that my phone has very low standards of what constitutes a worthwhile workout – just 6000 steps is enough to keep it happy on any given day. 

Both days have though been relatively good in terms of diet. Well, not good exactly, not in terms of eating five a day, or getting a balanced nutrient intake, more good in the sense of starving and not caring about it. Yesterday I had one pot of porridge and….erm…quite a lot of decaff skinny mistos at about 110 calories each. Today I had more in terms of solid food – yoghurt and granola for breakfast, and a truly mad experience for lunch. I had a thing called a ‘hula hula chicken burger.’ It seems to be an attempt to cram as many different varieties of calorific death between two halves of a bun as is humanly possible while not technically being an American burger specialist (I’ve seen the stuff they get up to, and that’s just exhausting even to eat with your eyes). I ate it and enjoyed it, eschewing the fries and the fizz that would have made it ‘a meal.’ Frankly it was about two meals all on its own, so I’m pretty much calorifically and nutritionally set for the day. Hey, technically, as well as the chicken, it had cheese for added protein, a slice of pineapple AND a mango hot sauce in it (two of my five, so nehh!).

Apart from that, lather, rinse, repeat on the decaff skinny mistos. The thing is, they produce the sensation of satiety, so I don’t particularly need anything more to eat. Which is all very well but can’t be considered even remotely healthy. Do not try this at home, kids.

Try this in Starbucks, obviously.

Weigh-in tomorrow. Steeling myself with the sensible advice that I’m only looking for a 2 lb loss. Haven’t weighed in days – I know, look at me! – so can’t even give you a wink as to whether I’ll have achieved that. Let’s find out together and pretend it’s fun.