The 39 15,000 Steps
Posted by Anna
It’s been a busy day. Up at 8am, I needed to get my car to Kwik-Fit to fix the exhaust. However when I got it there, they didn’t have the exhaust in stock, so I had to leave it there and walk home from Twickenham. I was intending to go into town at lunchtime and knew there were some engineering works going on, so I took a detour via Richmond Station to discover the worst… Apparently London Transport (which controls the District Line and London Overground — formally the “North London Line”) don’t talk to South West Trains, which is why there were no tube or overground trains and the only way to get to Waterloo was a train every half hour, doing a tedious 55 minute journey via Hampton, Kingston, Wimbledon and Rayners Lane…
From Richmond station I walked home and then back to the station a little later to get the train to my friend’s flat in Southwark. I’d forgotten to remind her of my fussiness and she’d gone ahead and made a mushroom risotto (she’s vegetarian and I don’t like mushrooms). I took a roll and some cottage cheese with me (but ate the roll on the long train journey, together with an apple), and she offered me some cherry tomatoes and some nice bread which I felt would be churlish to turn down. I wouldn’t have had the second (small) glass of pineapple juice if I’d known how high it is in calories!
From her flat, we walked to, and around Tate Modern and from there I walked back to Waterloo and from the station home. So I wasn’t surprised when my pedometer told me I’ve done 15,300 steps today. It feels like it!
| Breakfast | Yoghurt | 70 |
|---|---|---|
| Snack | Bread roll | 130 |
| Apple | 110 | |
| Lunch | Diet cottage cheese and chives | 210 |
| Tomatoes | 50 | |
| Slice of bread | 100 | |
| Pineapple juice | 200 | |
| Snack | Fruit cocktail | 100 |
| Dinner | WeightWatchers chicken curry | 295 |
| Diet chocolate mousse | 60 | |
| Total Calories | 1,325 | |
