D Day

So today is D Day, the first day of my new way of eating and so far it's going very well. The morning started with a pint of water and the millions of vitamins that I'm taking every day. This was followed by a nice fry up breakfast (and how odd it is to be using a frying pan and fat to cook with) - eggs, bacon, mushrooms & tomato with a cup of chai tea and yet more water. Lunch was a peppered steak with a small green leaf & avocado salad with a spoonful of homemade blue cheese dressing (very yummy!) with a cup of the rooibos tea and another glass of water and now I feel stuffed. Dinner is supposed to be tarragon chicken with faux-mash, but I'm not sure I'll be able to manage it - may have to substitute something lighter instead, especially as I'm also supposed to have a little snack. Surprisingly, the things that have had the highest carb values today so far are the mushrooms and the black peppercorns (yep I'm amazed as well!)

The rooibos is a bit of an acquired taste, actually its the smell that puts me off most, it doesn't taste too bad although I couldn't drink too many cups of it (at the moment anyway, see me glugging it back like normal tea in a few weeks probably). I can drink it black without any sweetener, which is a good thing as the soya milk I had in my chai tea this morning tastes absolutely disgusting and I can't even begin to imagine putting double cream in my tea having spent the last 10 odd years drinking skimmed milk. I shall have to try and bite the bullet with my chai and have that black too, but it's just not the same without that slight touch of milk.

Later this afternoon I'll be making my first batch of butternut squash soup for tomorrow's lunch (and maybe tonight's dinner). No idea if I'll like it as I don't think I've ever tasted it before, but it'll be interesting to see how it turns out. If nothing else my culinary skills will be improved considerably with this new eating plan - the downside of course is all this cooking creates more washing up - I suppose at least that could be classified as exercise *LOL*

On the exercise front I really need to get back into having a walk every day and tonight is as good a time as any to start.