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Monday-itis

Posted on May 3, 2010October 10, 2026 by Libby Withnall

I had a great start to the morning. I’ve been really enjoying my early morning walks with the dogs and my heal spurs have been behaving so I’m going to try walking every day and see how things go. In order to still fit my Red Carpet Ready workouts in I’m going to split them up – doing upper body one day and lower body the next. Today was lower body. This will give me more cardio while not missing out on the strength training. Felt great when I was finished. Of course, that meant it was green smoothie time. Sorry Bailey – no leftovers for you today.

Didn’t really like finding my kitchen like this….but at least it was all clean…

Both the girls weren’t feeling the best this morning so I ended up driving them to school. When I got back I had a couple of cruskits with spreadable cheese and a cup of tea, then got on with cleaning the house.

With cooler night forecast later in the week I decided it would be a good day to put the loungeroom into Winter mode and drag out the gas heater.

I was feeling a bit flat today and continually couldn’t decide what I wanted to eat. Unfortunately I spotted the box of chocolate dipped tiny teddies. It started with a handful for morning tea….

we won’t talk about how many more handfuls were consumed throughout the day.

Couldn’t decide what I really wanted to for lunch so just made a salad – todays featured some leftover marinated tofu, pinenuts and squirt of mayonnaise.

Followed a bit later by tea and chocolate. It is that time of month so maybe that’s why I was a bit more munchy today.

After picking up the girls from school I made some pikelets. Trying to do something right I had a couple of corn thins with hummus…

before having some pikelets with jam and cream :-).

Dinner tonight was lentil patties with cauliflower and corn. Delicious!

Marmalade from Italy???

Posted on April 28, 2010October 10, 2026 by Libby Withnall

Up and at ’em this morning with a Red Carpet Ready I Want my Bikini Body workout. It’s been a while since I’ve done a full program so it was rather challenging and I’m sure I’ll be feeling it tomorrow. Val is getting ready to launch a new program and if you follow the link you can see some free videos.

Following my workout I made a green smoothie for Kevin and myself. As usual my GS buddy was close at hand.

After Christy left for school I made a cup of tea and decided on a Scottish breakfast of marmalade on toast.

So you can imagine my suprise when I saw my marmalade was from Italy!!!

I did lots of jobs this morning, including cleaning a rug which I left outside in the sun to dry. The dogs seemed to think I’d put it there just for them and I found them lying on it quite a bit throughout the day.

Around 11am I had some cruskits with spreadable cheese.

…which meant I didn’t get hungry for lunch until 1pm. In the meantime I found a couple of new recipes to try as I had 4 bananas to use up. I made a banana date loaf and banana choc chip muffins (but I had to substitute white choc chips).

For lunch I made a carrot & apple coleslaw I’d seen on carrots ‘n’ cake. I put it over my normal salad (with egg). It was quite nice but I’d rather have my normal salad.

Afterwards I tried one of the muffins – very yummy!

By 4pm I was feeling rather tired and my back was VERY sore so I headed into the loungeroom so I could sit with my feet up. I enjoyed a bowl of rockmelon.

And a piece of the banana date loaf. This was okay but not that nice – don’t think I’d make it again.

I was supposed to make a vegetable hot pot tonight but decided to make something easier – lentil patty burgers. Patty from the freezer, some fried onions…

…. on a slice of bread with BBQ sauce, beetroot, tomato and a sprinkle of grated cheese. Delicious!

I hadn’t planned on having anything after dinner but as Christy was wanting ice-cream I decided to dish up a small bowl for myself 🙂

A productive day

Posted on April 28, 2010October 10, 2026 by Libby Withnall

Woke up at 6am with a rather sore back this morning. It tends to get sore when I sit around for long periods of time like I did over the weekend :-(. Oh, well, guess it stops me from being too lazy as I know I’ll suffer later. Anyway, I was out the door with dogs while it still dark but light enough to see safely. I love walking at this time of day – mind you we were too early for the best part of the sunrise :-(. It was cool out this morning and I had to wear long sleeves AND a jacket.

Back home and getting ready for the day. We saw Amy off – she’s going to camp for the rest of the week and Kevin was dropping her at the train station. Christy and I enjoyed a very quiet breakfast together – she had french toast and I had two of the leftover oat pancakes with some raspberry jam.

Once Christy headed off the school I got stuck into the housework. Once I was done I had a green smoothie before heading off to get my groceries. I spotted this yummy looking salad and have printed up the recipe to make another day.

Back home with the groceries. I got everything unpacked and put away. Then it was time for lunch. I had hoped to make the above mention salad but I was too tired at this point so just made the usual. Todays featured topping – leftover Mexican Rice from last night. Tasted good.

This afternoon I managed to do a bit of scrapbooking while enjoying a cup of tea. I wanted a little “something” so had an ANZAC cookie and small dark orange chocolate bar.

Later, around 4pm, I had a piece of cape-seed bread with hummus and cheese. I put the grapes from Christy’s lunch in a bowl and munched on them a bit later.

It was a quiet dinner with Amy being away. I planned an easy dinner of microwave potato topped with mexican beans, cheese and bit of sour cream.

Later I enjoyed a cup of tea with a banana goji berry muffin (defrosted from the freezer) and some dark chocolate.

And just before going to bed I had a handful of rice crackers – left over from Christy’s lunch!