You know the whole Team Shell motto is no excuses right? Well I still believe that but at the same time I never thought that I would be the kind of girl that uses “not feeling well” as a reason to not go to the gym as it never stopped me in the past. Last week I was pretty ill and I said to Pooks that I was either pregnant or that it was going to be a killer of a period. Unfortunately I wasn’t pregnant and I experienced a killer menstruation cycle (sorry to gross you out). I recall my Mum telling me a few years ago that it is actually hereditary. A lot of girls inherit long legs or even a fast metabolism. Not me. I inherited killer period pain. Lucky me! I also inherited Carney hair. Some may not believe this but for the first 20 or so years of my life I had really blonde hair. Every other Carney had dark wavy hair. I stood out like a sore thumb with the cousins and even my brother. As I have gotten older however my hair as gotten darker and now I look like the rest of them.
Back to the exercising. So I was really unwell last week and going against everything that I stood for. Pooks was on my case too but I just couldn’t do it. Anyway this week I have returned to the gym all normal again.
Cooking healthily for myself is easy peasy it is when I have to try and find things that Pooks will eat that is the problem. I have slowly been introducing “foreign” things into his diet and now he eats garlic and chilli with the best of them. Tonight though was an awesome achievement if I do say so myself. We had Chicken mini roasts (skin removed on mine) with sweet potato mash, mashed with nothing other than a little bit of marg, green beans with oyster sauce and a sprinkle of feta over the top! It was worthy of a table at a restaurant. It looked and tasted sensational and Pooks is now coming around to sweet potato! For lunch he has been taking chicken drumsticks that I have cooked the night before with a bit of spices on them.. Can’t quite get him to take a salad yet but all in good time!
Don’t know about anyone else but daylight savings has really stuffed me up. Getting up at 5:00am I like to go to bed early but I am ready now and it is still daylight! Need to push through for another hour or two!
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Shell, so pleased you're feeling better this week. I'm sure there are a lot of your female blog-o-fans who can relate to your horrible experience last week.
Good on Mr Pooks for expanding his culinary experience. You'll have him loving the leaves before too long :-)
Lucky you having daylight saving! It's light here at a bit after 4 and the birds are all chirpy and it's still an hour before it's worth getting up. Probably by March you will have got used to it again, and maybe I'll have stopped whingeing about not having it.
Keep up the good work (in the gym and on the blog).
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