Our gig as B & B host/hostess is finished! Again, I didn't have strong resistance. Hope this isn't a sign of things to come on our trip to the US! NO. NO. NO! I WILL use sense in eating on my travels!
Those chunky chocolate chip cookies I bought for the guests to have with tea were so yummy! I gave them 3 of which they ate 2. So 5 - 2 = yep, you guessed it. Has 2 big glasses of red wine after dinner.
No way I would ever want to run a B & B. They are so much work! We only had 2 guests but when the house is full it must be a nightmare. They are given a menu for breakfast and of course everybody wants something different. This morning the man wanted 1 fried egg, 2 pieces of bacon, 1 sausage, 2 fried tomatoes, fried mushrooms, black pudding, baked beans. The woman wanted 1 fried egg (at least they wanted their eggs the same way), 1 bacon, tomatoes, mushrooms, baked beans. Hubby cooked, I served, and cleaned up. At least we didn't have to clean the bedroom and change the sheets (a cleaner will do that). You'll be surprised to learn that neither of the couple were overweight. But a lot of people will do that on holidays - huge breakfast. We have done the same but I'm a lot better than I used to be.
Workout - at home:
To help with the guilt I'll probably do jump rope, exercise bike or some other cardio.
Menu:
TOTAL: unknown
Progress as of today: 37 lbs lost so far, only 0 lbs to go!
Hiya girls! Hope you all had a good weekend. We are back at the B & B tonight for one couple who are coming. They leave after breakfast tomorrow and that'll be the end of our gig. I picked up some goodies for the guests as there aren't any fresh ones in the B & B. We are supposed to offer them tea and a snack when they arrive, so I bought a bag of 5 bakery chocolate chip cookies. As you can guess, I will have 1 or 2 of them unless I can get hubby to eat one. I also got 3 Danish to add to their bread tray for tomorrow's breakfast. Bought a couple of bakery rolls for hubby and me so we can have bacon rolls for breakfast.
Our friends offered to pay us for our work but a better exchange is for the husband to cut our grass while we are away in the US for nearly a month.
Then I'm going to be VERY VERY GOOD until we check into the airport hotel on Monday night. Just hoping our friends don't invite us for a fattening dinner with lots of wine when they come back from their trip!
Workout at the gym:
I will do the at-home strength training tomorrow.
BTW Sweetpea, I finally tried triceps dips and they are hard! Will keep doing those and have added to my routine for our trip.
Menu:
TOTAL: should be well under 2,000
Progress as of today: 37 lbs lost so far, only 0 lbs to go!
P.S. Those tricep dips are in my Brazil classes and they are killer but very effective!
And a big yay for tricep dips!! Using your own body weight is an awesome resistance tool! :)
Well, we stayed the night at our friends' B & B and I will confess that I did indulge but could have been worse. Way too many Scottish shortbread cookies!! Couldn't seem to leave them alone and I believe they are made with butter. I only had one glass of wine which is odd for me, especially when staying in a house with a huge wine selection. Had a small slice of apple pie with ice cream.
This is a rest day so no workouts, although cleaning up this morning at the B & B felt like a workout.
No idea how many calories I had.
Our friends are still away till Wednesday and have a couple of guests coming Monday night, so we'll be staying the night again.
It's getting very close to when we leave for the US, so I'd better be careful or I'll be needing to lose when we get there!
Progress as of today: 37 lbs lost so far, only 0 lbs to go!
Stay strong with your choices. Definitely above and beyond the call of duty to be exposed when you're trying for the best possible food choices:-)
BTW, have you been practicing your meditation recently? I hadn't noticed that you'd mentioned it.
Keep up the good work--your consistency is sooo admirable!
Hello girls! Well, the evening ended in an unexpected way! Hub and I had dinner at 5.30 and just after 7.30 I was enjoying my glass of wine and oatcakes and got a phone call from our friends wondering why we hadn't shown up for dinner. Long story short - miscommunication between the 2 hubbies. 
Anyway, we said we couldn't eat but we'd come over. Had lots of red wine and I had a brownie with ice cream. Later in the evening after several glasses of wine the wife offered me the last brownie. Didn't want to hurt her feelings, so I ate it. OMG! 
Our friends have a B & B and they are taking a trip for the next few days and we are hosting their guests and spending the night at their house tonight and Monday night. The meatball and steak curry that was supposed to be our dinner last night has been saved and hubby and I have that for dinner tonight. My husband is cooking breakfast for the guests tomorrow morning and I'm helping serve and clean up. Chances are good that I will have bacon and eggs for breakfast as the smell will fill the house and make me drool. The bacon here is not like American but is sort of like Canadian but better. There will be cakes, doughnuts, and homemade breads there to tempt me, but I'll try to be strong.
Workout: (I didn't do my at-home after gym workout yesterday so did it this morning, and added in a bit of cardio as well.)
Menu:
TOTAL: anybody's guess
Progress as of today: 37 lbs lost so far, only 0 lbs to go!
Hiya girls! Recovered from yesterday's killer spin bike class.
Didn't have time for the elliptical today as I wanted to pick up a few things at the shop before I caught the bus. But then I didn't need to rush as I ran into hubby in the locker room as I was leaving and he was coming in to go swimming. He had driven and told me to take the car. So I didn't have to rush while I shopped.
When walking past the chocolate section debating about whether it would be safe to have a dark chocolate bar in the house, this brazen wee Cadbury milk chocolate bar just jumped right into my trolley. 
Tried to force it back on the shelf but it was stronger than me and I finally gave in. 95 calories. Not the end of the world. Just finished letting each of the 3 bites slowly melt in mouth to get the full flavour. Whew! Maybe I should avoid that area of the shop on future trips?! Or not.
Workout - gym:
If I have enough energy left, I'll also do my lower body routines instead of waiting till tomorrow.
OMG, my legs!!! I did my lower body routines at home this morning (lunges/squats/ankle weights) and then went to my spin class which was really intense! More than half the 30 min class was high resistance with lots of jumps and hill climbs. I'm going to end up with legs of steel!
Worked out a strength routine which I intend to do at least 3 times a week while we are away in the US for nearly a month. I don't want all the muscles I've built up to turn to flab while we are gone (it felt like that after the long xmas trip). I won't have dumbbells or ankle weights but have a good variety of routines. Need to find more upper body stuff though as all I have listed so far is pushups.
I'm not worried about getting in cardio this time as there will be lots of walking, cycling (including a 33 mile bike trail we're doing), canoeing, at least one 50 spin bike class, and a few times on a treadmill.
Workout:
Menu:
TOTAL: 1649
Progress as of today: 37 lbs lost so far, only 0 lbs to go!
I want to try a spin class eventually. I feel like I need to increase my stamina a little before trying it. I'm super impressed with your workouts.
great job on the exercise this morning!!
As for what to do for upper body while in the states, you can do: a variety of push-ups and planks, tricep dips using a chair or coffee table, table top planks with tricep dips, side tri rise, and supermans. Do you have a resistance band? If so, you can easily pack one of those in your luggage. If not, you can find them in most stores. They are so versatile as you can do a wide variety of arm, shoulder, chest, and back work with them. P90X has a lot of exercises you can do without weights or with bands, so let me know if you need some recommendations. :)
Hiya ladies! Hope you are all getting healthy and fit! Gym day today but I did a bit too much chatting while there. Still managed to get in most of my workout though.
Had some veggie curry last night which I had frozen a couple of months ago and it had lost a lot of its flavour, so I couldn't finish it. This sparked an 'I'm hungry and not getting enough calories' binge. Fortunately there were no 'forbidden' sugary or other foods in the house. So I had 1 or 2(?) light oat/fruit bars, quite a few oatcakes - one with a slice of low fat cheese, one with pb, a cappuccino.
Back on track today without any or very much damage I'm sure. I'm fairly content with my size now although I'd love to get rid of the rest of this belly!
Workout:
Home workout:
You'll lose that belly, just keep up the good work!!
Hiya ladies! Changing my calorie plans as I don't feel I'm getting enough fuel on all of my intense workout days. Since I began to have a snack immediately following my gym workouts I feel so much better and recover quicker. The best one I've found is 2 Scottish oatcakes (a bit like a big round cracker but made with oats (86%), oil, sea salt, baking soda). I put 10 g of non-sweetened pb between them. Feel revived immediately! I bring a sandwich to eat after my spin class as it finishes after my usual lunchtime.
2 weeks until we fly to the US! All of my capris but one are too loose but wearable. I need to buy some belts. I'm going to bring the dress I have although it's really way too big in the top but will have a couple of days to try to buy one there before the wedding (and cheaper!).
Workout:
Menu:
TOTAL: 1409
Progress as of today: 37.6 lbs lost so far, only -0.6 lbs to go!
Greetings, ladies! Woohoo, it's my higher calorie day!
Workout at gym:
Home workout:
Happy Mother's Day to American moms! 
Also Happy Mother's Day to all mums everywhere!
A bit of a rest day except for some housework. Windy and showers today so I'll be staying nice and warm in the house.
Menu:
TOTAL: 1340
Progress as of today: 38 lbs lost so far, only -1 lbs to go!
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Congrats for surviving your stint as a host..I think that is really nice of you and hubby to do this for your friends, even cooler is they are going to take care of your yard during your visit to the states!!I think i would have enjoyed cooking for others, I know weird right? LOL Have a good day Annie :)
supercheese on 05/22/2012:
Wow congrats!! Sounds like a big job!! LOL my parents use to eat the same way and they are so small...I KNOW if i ate like that it would be trouble!!
liza36 on 05/22/2012:
Taking care of a B&B does sound like a lot of work. I know you'll do fine with sensible eating on your trip, no problem!
hollybelle on 05/22/2012:
It sounds like your friends got the best deal on the barter/trade Hosting for lawn mowing, but then again, I haven't seen your yard! I was just thinking about vacation strategy when I was commenting on Supercheese's diary. I used to cut back so much the week or two before that I totally went nuts with food on vacation. I just wish I had a vacation planned to use some strategy for! Maybe in the Fall. Around October. We'll see.
Umpqua on 05/22/2012:
Yay for making it through your hosting gig! I would probably eat a lot given that B&B menu, I find it hard to resist bacon and eggs. Oh and I didn't steam the wallpaper off, soaked it with a water/fabric softener solution and scraped it off. It's a long and tedious process but a good workout at least with a great payout in the end!
TheMother on 05/22/2012:
I'm smiling as I read your post. I had never stayed at a B&B until my trip to Lancaster, PA. It was a delightful experience but I also realized that having this type of business is a LOT of work plus you never know who will be staying under your roof. I'm not sure that it's all that profitable either. Glad your stint is finished (as are you). To thank you and your hubby, your friends should mow your lawn, water your plants, walk your pets (if you have any) for at least TWO months - not just while you're away. Have a good day.
sweetpea1977 on 05/22/2012:
lol, one of the things I want to do when I win the lottery is to go to cooking school for the hell of it. I dont want to open a restaurant, I just wanna expand on this cooking passion of mine. I'd love meeting new people at my B & B, though Im sure its also a lot of work. I think ideally, I'd rather own a few mountain cabins, spend thousands of dollars decorating them to perfection, and renting them out as vacation homes (when Im not using them!) and make lots of money off of them.
I still dont know what a bacon roll is...Im sure its fantastic. I LOVE BACON!
sweetpea1977 on 05/22/2012:
holy crap that sounds soooooo good! lol
thinkpositive on 05/22/2012:
Loved reading about your B&B hosting. I have a friend ( his wife & good friend who ran it with him died about 8 years ago) who runs a B &B in ME. I realized that I'm not up for being that sunny in the mornign with strangers. That's a big deal to serve such an extensive cooked to order breakfast. I liked the B&B in Hawaii- bed and beach! they just drop off a basket of muffins & leave coffee on in an outside area. That would be my speed!
nunnermack on 05/22/2012:
Your posting made me chuckle. I know how it goes...you can't waste the food ESPECIALLY cookies!!