Week 9 - day 2 (day 58)

Once again I didn't sleep well, but at least my scant four hours were in the morning, so I should be awake but not exactly crisp overnight.
I had the chicken schnitzel for dinner, around 3AM - this was my first sampling of this dish, and I quite enjoyed it. The tomato concasée was flavourful but not dominant, and the chicken was really tender.
Breakfast was vanilla crunch cereal with low-fat milk and an apple. It was also supposed to be two slices of grain and oat bread with margarine and Vegemite but, though I decided to follow the program to the letter, I think transfats are bad. Instead I had one of the slices with my post-stroll fettuccine bolognaise, reserving the extra sachet of cheese and later toasting that, with a little basil, on the second piece of bread. The other snacks were a slightly dry citrus sultana biscuit washed down with milk (to bring me up to the daily quota) and a chocolate muesli bar.
Lunch was new, Greek meatballs with Roma tomato and fetta salad. The meatballs I've had before - they're juicy and full of flavour, and though there were only two that was plenty. The salad was predominantly legumes, a combination of chick peas and lentils (which I've chosen to count in the vegie tally below). It was filling and quite pleasant, and certainly a change from the frozen bowls of rice, pasta etc.
I did the CardioWalk workout, which wasn't as exhausting as yesterday's killer circuit but which I had a little trouble keeping up with. I think this was partly because my muscles are a little fatigued, and partly because it was really humid today - warm, with a near-constant drizzle interspersed with outright rain.
I went for a walk in the rain, and voted in the state election. There was no queue, so I only stopped moving long enough to number the boxes. I popped in to the supermarket on my way home, and bought truss tomatoes (once I smelled them I couldn't face the bland ones provided, and will take them in to work instead) and basil.
I also bought a dozen Cadbury 40-60g chocolate bars, which were on sale at less than half price. I'll mail a couple to my sister overseas, where they don't have Snack; the rest I'll keep for when I modify my diet. In the past I've bought bigger blocks because they're cheaper per gram than the smaller varieties, but over the course of a day or two I'd nibble away the whole thing. This way I'll have recourse to a small treat every now and then, without eating an entire days' calories.
I intended walking the Horror Hill and the twenty 'cool down' (or 'try not to look I-spent-a-day-at-Kooyong-and-forgot-my-sun-screen scarlet') walk from there to work. I was also going to take the stairs. But I took a nap, and bed was too lovely to leave after only 80 minutes, and it was raining. So no extra walk, hill or stairs, today. - Alex

Fruit: apple, kiwi, sultanas, citrus peel
Vegetables: green beans, carrots, celery, chick peas, corn, cucumber, lentils, onion, sweet potato, tomato, tomato puree
Energy: 1713 calories
Fibre: 38.5g
Exercise:40 minutes CardioWalk DVD, 2 x 30 minutes walking on flat surface, 5 minutes walking uphill, 5 minutes of stair climbing, 20 minutes of hand weights