Food and exercise diary, Tuesday June 30.

Haven't done one of these food diaries for a while because I was getting bored of it to be honest, but I think things have changed quite radically since I did the first ones back in May, so I thought it would be useful to update.
So, for breakfast I had a bowl of 'high fruit' muesli. I am a bit suspicious of muesli, not sure I trust its holier-than-thou facade, when underneath lurks a lot of sugar. But it was one of Sainsbury's Be Good To Yourself range. Although I did have a laugh at the health wheel thing which shows you what's in it, as it was all green except for the sugars part, which was into the amber. But the calories etc were based on a 50g serving. So I weighed out 50g, and it's about as much as you can get into an egg cup. So I probably had about 200g in my bowl.
For lunch I got suckered into another ridiculous Sainsbury's marketing ploy by buying a carton of gazpacho soup, which is 'full of flavour and perfect served ice cold for the summer'. After my sushi and salad I poured out the tomato and vegetable gazpacho which had been chilling nicely in the freezer.
Now I do like gazpacho and made fresh it is delicious, but from a carton off a supermarket shelf I soon realised that really I was eating cold soup.
There was no way round it, I was sitting there thinking how wonderfully healthy and metropolitan I was being dining on my gazpacho, when really I was at the same level as a greasy haired student tucking into an uncooked tin of baked beans.
This was followed by a banana.
Had a good session in the gym later. I had been avoiding it a bit because I thought it would be so hot and sticky, which it was. But avoiding it was not a good thing either so I did about 45 minutes cardio vascular, including ten boring minutes on the bikes.
Then I did about 20 minutes on the weights. The weights was inhabited by more macho tossers than normal for some reason. I like my gym because you don't get many tossers who like to strut around like they think they've just walked off Venice beach, but it was full of them today.
For dinner I stir fried a couple of chicken breasts with onions, bean sprouts and a couple of peppers on a bed of noodles. Probably did a bit too much for one person but I was hungry after my work out.
And see, not a chocolate muffin in sight.