Day 26-
Today's diet:
On waking: Hot water with a slice of lemon.
Breakfast: 1 slice of gluten and yeast free toast with avocado, salt and pepper and a sliced boiled egg. Green tea.
Morning snack: Raw nut mix (Cashews, brazil nuts, almonds, walnuts). Peppermint tea.
Lunch: Burger patty and salad.
Afternoon snack: 3 strawberries, 1 liqueur cherry chocolate.
Dinner: ***am embarrassed to write this*** KFC zinger burger and about 20 chips!!! EEEK!!
After dinner snack: 3 squares of dark chocolate, detox tea.
At least 2 litres of filtered water throughout the day.
Exercise: None.
Sleep: About 7 hours, woke up twice, once for 2 hours though....

Have you aver had a day where nearly everything seems to be just off balance? Well I had one of those days today.

We had a big day planned with a trip to the airport to collect my mother-in-law (about a 2 hour drive) with some shopping on the way to break up the trip, then driving to my mother-in-law's house (another 2 hour drive) to have dinner, give my daughter a bath & put her in her PJ's and then come home (1 hour). HUGE day and we had an extra adventure to boot.

I was up early, chopping salads, putting soup in a thermos, packing heaps of snacks, clothes, etc. Sadly, soup and salad are not particularly easy foods to eat whilst you're driving. I managed to have some tea and salad when we stopped to go shopping, as my daughter had fallen asleep on the way, but she woke up before I could get to the soup. We went shopping for an hour, great chance for her to run around. I managed to get the sports bra I need, YAY! Exercise DVD's will be much easier now. The ladies in the store were excellent and pretended to fit my daughter with the smallest bra they could find when she insisted that she wanted to try on a bra too "like Mummy!"...arrrgh! 2 year-olds!

Then we headed to the airport, I missed the turn-off and had to wait another 5 km's before I could turn back...once we get to the airport, my daughter says there is something in her nose. I asked if she needed a tissue and she said no, so, confused, I asked her what was in her nose and she said 'mandarin'...! Sure enough, a close inspection revealed a large piece of mandarin rind that she had pushed as far into her right nostril as she could manage. Arrrggh! I had no chance of getting it out without tweezers, so I thought I'd buy some in an airport chemist. We met my mother-in-law and she said she had some tweezers in her luggage, so we grabbed that and a chocolate frog to use as bribery to get my daughter to stay still while I tried to get the rind out of her nose (I couldn't help getting a chocolate for myself too). It was no good though, I couldn't get it out and so we had to make a detour via the hospital on the way home.

Of course by this point we're all starving and I neither want to stop, nor get my daughter out of the car and try to put her back in again unnecessarily, so we called into a drive-through KFC on the way to the hospital. So much for reverting to the detox foods. I suppose I could have grabbed a grilled chicken wrap instead, but I was hungry and not looking forward to holding a small struggling toddler whilst the doctor pulled something from her nose, so got what I wanted, not what was best for me.

As it turned out, it was a quick and simple process to extricate the offending rind, my daughter stayed still and the doctor gave her a lollipop which she immediately opened and devoured (so much for trying to limit sugar intake).

The rest of the day ran more smoothly, but now I am exhausted and hoping to climb into bed, forget about today's dramas and wake up refreshed and ready to try out my new sports bra tomorrow morning...