I have been following a low fat diet and have lost half a stone so far.

This way of eating suits me very well and I can see that I will be able to maintain my weight loss quite easily.

My one weakness is Cake, I especially enjoy a slice after a long days walking:-)

So whilst trying to loose weight I have limited myself to just one slice of cake on walking days only.

I have also realized that I can make better choices to help my weight loss

Here is a nice recipe for a Light fruit Cake.

110g light spread ( i used vitalite )
100g soft dark brown sugar
2 eggs
1 banana, mashed
200g mixed dried fruit
225g self raising flour
2 tsp mixed spice
2 tsp ground cinnamon

Pre-heat oven to 150c

Grease and line a 20cm tin

Cream the sugar and spread together in a bowl

Gradually mix in the egg and banana.

Add fruit flour and spice mixing well with a wooden spoon

Bake for an hour to an hour and a half

serves 8, 176 calories per slice and 3g fat

compared to

Mr Kipling manor house cake

serves 6 , 267 calories and 13.1g fat

Traveling has never been part of my life plan.

Whilst married, holidays were spent visiting family or taking the boys to Butlins.

Going Abroad or traveling never entered my mind.

Then I met Geoff !

Within months of meeting him he was suggesting I went to Les Gets, skiing and then Corsica, where we walked the GR20, which is still the hardest thing I have ever done.

Then it was Morocco, where we walked  Mount Toubkal in the Atlas mountains and met Lady Mac

All followed by trips to Spain, Finland and Peru, where we walked the amazing Inca Trail.

In between, there has been many wonderful skiing and walking trips in Les Gets too.

In June we are having a week in Italy, mainly to attend a wedding but I am sure we shall squeeze some walking in too.

Then there is the Big Plan for September

Flights have now been booked, and we shall be flying to Beijing, the exciting thing is I will be in China for 4 weeks

As you may expect we hope to walk many sections of  The Great Wall.

Here is the Painting I bought last week, when we visited The Art Exhibition held in Grimston.

I love beach Huts and have been looking for a painting for a while.

I have an idea of what I want , unfortunately this is not the one.

Though I liked this enough to buy it and will just keep looking for the perfect one

It was very reasonably priced at £20 and measures 8 x 6 inches.

Its a shame its not bigger !

After having a very lazy Sunday it was decided we best do some walking on bank holiday Monday.

As it was the Reach Fair we decided why not walk to Reach and back

So off we set and it was a walk that certainly made up for being lazy on the Sunday.

A total of 22 miles was walked.

Its been a while since we walked so far and I had forgotten how lovely it feels to be back home after a long days walking.

A feeling of tiredness and achievement all rolled into one.

Reach fair walk

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36 mini double chocolate muffins made for my boys.

testing my will power

But wont eat any as I have now lost 6lb

Today started with a trip to the tip to remove all the lawn and hedge cuttings from my Garden.

Followed by a quick half hour work out at the gym

I then collected Geoff from the train station and we made our way home.

After Geoff admired my Garden we set off to walk over the fields to the next Village.

The reason for this walk was to Visit The Art exhibition being held in the local church.

Over 400 paintings to enjoy , all by local artist.

I have a liking for Beach Huts and bought myself a small painting but cannot collect it till next week.

We then made our way home through Congham Heath

Grimston Art walk

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After some dinner Geoff enjoyed his Indian Head massage before I returned him to the train station.

Then it was time for my yoga class , where for some reason , I fell asleep in the relaxation part

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It felt hard but I did do it almost 2 mins quicker than last time

Its been along time since I did any walking in Norfolk.

But our walk on Sunday with the Cambridge Rambling club took us along the Pingo trail.

Which to my surprise is in Norfolk.

Ron and Margaret led us on a very interesting walk and I learnt a lot about the history of a Pingo 

Some parts of the walk made me think we were in the swamps just waiting for the crocodiles and alligators to appear.

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