Life resumed it’s normal pace yesterday. After the joy of Christmas, it’s time to knuckle down and grind through the last months of winter.

On Tuesday night, I set myself for success, I shut all screens down at 9pm and was in bed, lights out at 10pm. Apparently the universe does not reward good intentions and I completely failed at falling asleep or staying asleep.

It felt like I was awake half the night.  At 6am, after what was possibly the worst nights sleep in the world, I had to get up in the dark and go to work. Also one of the weird things about me, is when I’m tired, I’m often sick. Yep, if it’s very bad, I throw up, mostly though I just feel nauseous. Not fun. So I didn’t start the day feeling great. The best thing to do is eat something, preferably something that will give you some energy.

Breakfast: Mint tea / Pint of water with berocca / Half a slice of walnut bread with butter and gooseberry jam / Porridge with apple sauce and cooked blueberries and cherries /Lemon and ginger tea to take out with me (not pictured).

The applesauce is my usual and the berries and cherries were cooked with a bit of apple juice from frozen.

Snack One: Low fat plain yoghurt with some more blueberries and cherries/Lemon and Ginger tea / Water

Lunch: Lentil, roasted veg & egg salad. A slice of Christmas cake and a pear / More water

It’s usually 2 eggs but I forgot about them last night when I was boiling them and was reminded when one of them exploded! So this is remains of them, somewhere between one and three eggs worth!

Snack Two: Graze pistachios and a banana / More water / Lemon and ginger tea

Snack Three: Mushrooms

I always get home hungry and generally reach for a couple of mushrooms. I think I prefer them raw rather than cooked and it’s better than coming home and eating cheese!

Dinner: French Onion Soup with Comté / slice of walnut bread / couple of mouthfuls of custard / 4 chat au longues

I had planned a nice ‘treat’ dinner for today as I knew it would be a long day. I ended up not eating the all the custard. I just didn’t fancy it. 

There was more water and more tea. But I forgot to take pictures of that.

Best thing was the onion soup. I love that soup.

Did you go back to work today? How was it?