Day 9 - The Human Slingshot

I woke up feeling pretty hungry after the highly dissatisfying meal we had last night. I was craving juice, bacon and pan cakes. Of course! It was irritating to realise that none of my cravings were going to be satisfied. Not in the next 3 months anyway. Before going to bed I grilled up a stash of chicken which I plan to throw into various concoctions over the next few days. The first of which being this - today's lunch. Char-grilled chicken, veggie and cous cous salad with pepper, olive oil (just a drop serious) and lemon. It was missing all the tasty herbs which I'll add next time (and nuts if they are allowed) but it was colourful, fresh, had some crunch and was enough to get me mildly excited to eat it. Success.

Vegetables for breakfast…I am hitting the wall on this one and am really hoping Patrick doesn’t tell me that tomato is a fruit. Does anyone have vegetable suggestions for breakfast that are quick and tasty? If so, please send them my way. This weekend I am going to try and make a frittata and loading that up with veg. Though how I am going to weigh out Gilles and my individual protein / veg portions I don’t know.

This morning's exercises were something else. It was raining pretty heavily and while pre-PCP me would have curled up under the doona and hit the snooze button, the 2 week old PCP me dragged herself out of bed and headed straight to the roof. What's a bit of rain anyway? I managed to find a spot between the puddles and started skipping away in the pouring rain. It was at that point the soundtrack in my head kicked in and my life suddenly transformed into a training montage with all the added splashing from the jumps it felt like I was living an 80s music clip / flashdance sequence. I had to hold back from breaking into a spot sprint though I think I threw in a few head flicks. She's a maniac alright....

I still need to break my skipping up into sets but they are increasing and I'm up to around 150 - 200 jumps a set not counting the tripping. Doing 600 skips in a row isn't a remote possibility right now so I'll just stick to what I have going. By the time I was done with the skips I was totally drenched so had to do a quick costume change before getting onto the exercises. Lunges - ugh, not too bad but this exercise takes forever!!! Leg raises - waaaaay better on my hip with the modified position suggested by Patrick which means bending my legs. Standing Ovation…..seriously. Had there been an audience I would have gotten one for how farcical the spectacle of me battling the band must have seemed. Is anyone else struggling with this one? I am definitely getting a softer band. This morning's experience was like wrestling against a human slingshot and I lost.