Day 3

Weight: 14 stone 12 pounds (94.3kg)

Lost: 1 lb

After my very lazy day yesterday of doing…..well, nothing, except prepare 2 large salads with a nice mix of the usual suspects, today was much more productive! I walked the dogs for their usual hour in the beautiful Spanish countryside with the mountains for a backdrop…and it was so mild that I even had to undo my hoody…..roll on summer!

Friday was gym enrolment day and I was looking forward to the challenge….sort of.

A very young and semi handsome Spaniard called Salvador helped me get started on the bike for 10 minutes (that was enough) followed by a couple of exercise machines. I was thinking to myself this isn’t too bad, but then he put me on the running machine (I don’t run) for another 10 minutes. Luckily he took pity on me and let me walk. Yes, I could do that. Then back on the old weights for some more pumping iron, very light iron in my case.  But then Salvador led me back to the cardio machines for a gruelling 10 minutes on the cross-trainer and he smiled at me like he knew this would hurt….I didn’t disappoint him. Afterwards I actually thought we had finished, but no… more weights and the bike for a period, you guessed it, 10 minutes. Salvador told me this was a cool down but just sitting there was no good, I had to pedal….oh.

Well I fell out of the gym door in the same fashion as exiting out of the pub after one too many brandy and babyshams. But instead of heading for the nearest kabab shop for a chip kabab, as one does after a good night out, I took myself off to my local and excellent fruit and veg shop to replenish my dwindling food stock!

Back home in my cosy casa I set to work on making raw chocolate pudding and raw paté…but not to eat together. Here´s what I just threw together:

3 avocados, 8 medjool dates, 3 tbsp cocoa powder and a splash of water to get the mixture flowing while blitzing in the food processor. Success and delicious enough for that chocolate hit that I’ve been missing. My next mission was to make the paté.

1/3 cup cashew nuts, 1/3 cup sunflower seeds ground into a powder with a coffee grinder and dump into a food processor. 1/3 cup carrot, 2 celery sticks, pinch salt, little squeeze of lemon and a tbsp of Dijon mustard whizzed together…voilà!

I consumed 2 large salads (usual mix) with some sprouted bean sprouts that have been sprouted (!)….they were good too.  I do know one thing, I will sleep tonight and hopefully be able to walk tomorrow after my exertion in the gym today.

Hope you like the photo as proof I was actually in the gym!

Please tune in tomorrow to see how I get on.