Salad Overkill

I think I got a little too ambitious with my salad today, it's not quite as nice as I'd hoped it would be! Just the combo of ingredients don't really work, namely the usual base of lettuce, cherry tomatoes & cucumber, with mixed nuts, raisins, mixed sprouts, chopped gherkins, sun dried tomato, red pepper, and balsamic dressing.

Earlier I had a small bag of mixed nuts and raisins as a mid morning snack, and the usual smoothie for breakfast.

I was a bit despondent this morning as I'd only lost 0.3kg in the last day, I expected more since our gruelling climb to the top of Lions Head and back down again yesterday morning. That was a workout and a half with not much weight loss to show for the effort!

That said, I've lost 4kg in a week, since last Monday, which isn't too bad going. Being at 98kg today I was hoping to get to 95 by this coming Friday, though I think 96.5kg is probably a bit more realistic. But still I'll keep trying, including a game of squash every day this week!

Hopefully this evening somebody cancels their squash court booking or doesn't turn up because it's fully booked as always and I'd really like to play this evening. The squash booking system at Virgin Active Tableview doesn't really work because as the bookings for a day are opened online 2 weeks prior people go on and book up the slots quickly so it's near impossible to get a booking on weeknights within a few days of wanting to play, let alone on the day. Then what happens is people book courts for just in case, and often just don't turn up without having the common courtesy to cancel their booking so somebody else can use the court. So if I don't have my booking made 2 weeks in advance I gotta just rock up and hope for the best, which is what a lot of people do so the competition is stiff.

I'm now in the habit of booking my courts every day as they open up for that day in 2 weeks time so that I get my court securely booked, though I DO actually cancel in advance if I'm not gonna make it.

The only plus side of this system is that because of all the guys rocking up in the hope of getting a court, on days that I have a court booked there's often random people that will join me for a game so I don't play solo all the time. I do enjoy playing solo sometimes, but a game with an opponent is more fun and a great workout!

So, about that climb up the mountain yesterday, I'll blog about it later, maybe, since the photo's are at home. Check them on Facebook in the meantime if you're impatient.

I got nothing else to say now.