Quick Note: It’s nearly 12am and I can’t be bothered to work out my exact sugar intake, sorry guys, so it’s just an estimate, I’ve gone over the rough 10g a day each day anyway đŚ !
Monday:
Rough Sugar Intake: 52g, Fitness: 0
I had a horrible start to the day waking up at 4am to be sick, I have no idea why, but it wasn’t nice haha. I got a bit more sleep before getting up at 7.40am for work. I had a yummy honey and sunflower seed roll with butter and a banana for breakfast at work with a cup of camomile tea. It as super filling, half a roll would have been enough really. On my break I had a third of another roll with butter and a glass of diet coke. After work I met up with a friend, who I hadn’t seen in ages, for lunch and we went to revs. I was naughty and had two cocktails, but I stuck to the healthy meal of chicken with salad.
The rest of the afternoon was spent in uni till about 7pm and I had a large americano and 2 squares on 85% dark choc for a snack at 5pm ish. When I got home I waited for my flatmate to get home and then we watched the rest of The King an I (which we’d started last week) and then had a good singalong to Grease. My tea was a bowl of homemade potato and leek soup with the rest of the role from break. Later on I was naughty again though and had my last bottle of cider, stella this time, and 60g of salt and vinegar pringles.
Tuesday:
Rough Sugar Intake: 80g, Fitness: 1h cross-trainer = 573cal, weight machines = 76cal
Tuesday I had planned to go to the gym before uni but I was so tired because on monday night I only went to bed at 1.30am so I got to uni early instead and got lot’s of work done before my tutorial. Breakfast was a bacon baguette and a large americano. My tutorial went ok and for once I had a bit more to display. Lunch was a chicken fajita pasty from Greggs before my art lecture from 1pm-3pm. A chai tea latte (which I just discovered was 53g for a large?!?!! shit I did so not expect that!) was my lecture treat and another coffee at 4.30pm with 1 piece of 85% choc and 30g of crisps after a tuna crunch baguette for an early tea. Gym was from 8 ish and got home at 9.30ish.
I was craving food after my long workout, but didn’t want to eat unhealthily although I was craving sugar. I had 2 crackers and a bite of cheese whilst making fried eggs on toast (no oil or anything used to fry, an 2 eggs and 2 slices of toast with butter). Wish I’d been able to say no that but hey, it wasn’t very sugary at least đ
Wednesday:
Sugar Intake: 13g, Fitness: 0
Wednesday began with work at 9am after a banana roll for breakfast. For lunch I had another roll at work, this time with mozzarella and lambs lettuce and a glass of diet coke.
I finished work at 3pm and headed to uni to get some work done, I finished this painting and was then go to go to the gym, but my friend decided to star a paint fight with me and covered in orange paint I decided it would be easier to jus get a lift home with another friend rather than go to the gym. So I was lazy, oh and I also ate a full bag of salted popcorn, but at least that’s not much damage.
Once I got home I admit I can’t even remember what I ate for dinner 
 I think it might have been another mozzarella and lambs lettuce roll.
Thursday:
Sugar Intake: 130g, Fitness: 12mins cross-trainer = 100cal, weight machines = 221cal
A good start to the day with a small session at the gym followed by breakfast of a cup of green tea with lemon and a brown roll with butter and banana. At 10.30am I went to a group crit, which had some interesting discussions going on, and drank a cup of fruit tea in those two hours. After the crit I met my friends in Cooper for our planned Cooper day, meaning a full day in Cooper researching what we might want to do after university. It began with lunch, a cream cheese bagel with salmon and rocket and chips with mayo and a bit of ketchup and a pint of die pepsi. I got underway with my researching, looking at what opportunities were available for me to go to France and learn to speak French fluently; for example I could become and Au Pair, but I’m not keen on doing that. Admittedly didn’t find much to my liking so I need to do a lot more research. Later on I had two black coffees and a salted caramel cheesecake and then later still a cheery pop (double cherry sour with hooch). At 5pm I was off to choir rehearsal which was good as usual and then I was straight back in cooper with my friends afterwards. We had given up on research at this point and just ordered dinner (curry for me) with a large glass of white wine (I had wanted a rum and coke but it’s not included in the meal deal and I couldn’t stomach a vodka lemonade so the bad sugar choice was made). Afterwards I tried this new cider (Angry Orchard) with my friend, and I’m not sure what I think, at first it was very apple juicy but then I felt it started to remind me to much of apple cider vinegar. We were then joined by two more friends and I proceeded to drink 2 bottles of Becks and one Sol before we called it a night. So this was a pretty calorific day!
Friday:
Sugar Intake: 222g, (actually horrified about 100g is just the chocolate!) Fitness: 0
1 sesame roll with butter and banana split into two sittings, half before work, half at 11ish for break and both with a cup of tea. Then for lunch after work at 2.30pm I had a roll with butter, mozzarella, pesto and lambs lettuce. As my friend and I finished work at the same time we decided to have a round of cheeky cocktails and went to revs where I had two Caribbean passions followed by two bottles of Sol.
Annoyingly I had planned to go to uni for a little after work and then do some strength building at the gym but obviously neither happened after cocktails and so I just met my friends at uni and we walked to mine for our planned friends (the tv series) drinking session. Already a bit tipsy I had a pepperoni pizza for tea and snacked on a full bag of peanut m&m’s and a full tub of Pringles throughout the night whilst drinking a double rum and diet coke, three tequila shots and a Indian summers bulmers cider. Everyone left at about 11.30 and if my consumption hadn’t been bad enough, I decided to finish the evening with a cup of tea and bar one row, a full bar of galaxy cookie crumble chocolate that one of my friends didn’t like and had left. Fuck!
Saturday:
Sugar Intake: 23g, Fitness/cal burned: 1h on the cross-trainer = 568cal, dumbles and weight machines = 236cal
Bacon sarni and a grapefruit with two cups of coffee for breakfast. I spent all morning and afternoon watching Extreme Weight Loss whilst getting three loads of washing done and ordering some new 100% natural shampoo from Funky Soaps. Oh and I ordered three books on Sugar free lifestyles/why sugar is so bad for us, I hope it will help keep me inspired! At 2pm ish I had a snakc of an organic apple and a cup of fruit tea. Then at 3pm ish I made myself a tuna mayo mozzarella salad roll and then got changed and went to the gym at 4pm ish. After the gym I came home and relaxed a little before my dad picked me up to take me to durham. My mum had made a delish chicken and leek pie with veg for tea after which dad and I sat down to watch August Rush, a lovely film, and snack on some pringles later on with a cup of fruit tea. Then I enjoyed a quick bath but had to endure the tedious process of washing my hair (I  orderd some natural liquid shampoos, I hope they’re easier than the bars im usising at the moment) before snuggling up in bed.
Sunday:
Sugar Intake: 86g, Fitness: 40 wall press ups and some squats
Breakfast was 2 slices o yummy Hefezopf with jam and butter and a pot of coffee. Until lunch at 2ish I’m afraid I still didn’t manage to resist the truffles and had 3. Lunch was out usual staff nibbles of mixed bread bites, I had 5 which is about 1 and 1/2 slices of bread.
When I got back from work made myself a quick tuna salad sandwich and then went off to the cinema with my parents to the The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which was rather good, oh and we shared some salted popcorn. Afterwards we snuggled up in the sofa for a bit and had a slice of hefezopf with jam and a hot chocolate for supper. Then I went to bed to start typing tis ridiculously long post up, and I’ve only just finished it tis morning!
Summary:
So as you can all see this week has been absolutely shit!!!! However, I have to admit I have caught the gym bug, I know only went three times, but it made me feel really good especially when I managed 1h twice on the cross trainer. It has made me want to really get fit, I am back to Sunderland this afternoon after my dentist appointment and I already can’t wait to get to the gym! So the aim for next week, no crap!
Carina xo
In Pursuit of Health and Happiness 