Day 37-
Today's diet:
On waking: Hot water with a slice of lemon.
Breakfast: Gluten and wheat free muesli with psyllium husks, lecithin, banana and rice milk. Green tea.
Morning snack: None.
Lunch: A ham and cheese toastie on rye bread. Mint and ginger tea.
Afternoon snack: A chai tea with honey and rice milk, half a blueberry muffin.
Dinner: Joshi's chicken and fresh herb pesto (see below) with gluten free pasta and a sprinkling of feta cheese.
After dinner snack:Lemon and ginger tea with honey, another half a muffin.
At least 2 litres of filtered water throughout the day.
Exercise: 3 hours of heavy gardening (mixing cement, moving heavy rocks, digging etc).
Sleep: About 8 hours, woke up once.

Had a great day in the garden today, really got a lot done. My retaining wall is starting to look like a wall all of a sudden, after months of preparation! Yay! I also transplanted a bunch of plants to make a new hedge, which looks great.

Unfortunately I was so busy working outside that I forgot to have a morning snack, so I was starving at lunch and demolished a ham and cheese grilled sandwich in about 3 seconds flat. Then I was unable to resist a blueberry muffin that my Aunt brought when she came to visit not long after.... ahhh...

Still, not too bad a day and I think that all of that exercise in the garden probably made up for the calories at least.

For dinner we tried Joshi's Chicken and fresh herb pesto. Not too keen to be honest, just seemed to be missing something, not salty enough maybe. The fresh herbs were nice though.

Chicken and Fresh Herb Pesto-
Ingredients:
- 4 spring onions, chopped
- 2 tbsp pine nuts
- 1&1/2 tbsp of lemon zest
- 4 large garlic cloves
- 2 tbsp fresh basil
- 2 tbsp fresh continental parsley
- 1/2 a cup of olive oil
- chicken
- We also used gluten free pasta and feta cheese.

Add the first 6 ingredients to a blender/food processor.

Add oil until a paste forms.

Cook pasta as per directions on packet.

Cook chicken in a frying pan. Add the pesto.

Add the cooked pasta.

Sprinkle with feta cheese and serve.