Day 4: a big pile of urgh

I couldn't make that yoga class today as I'd been pencilled in for a shift starting an hour after it ended. Hoping to make tomorrow's session instead, but again depends on work. It's getting a little frustrating not having a roster - would be nice to plan which gym classes I can make and be able to make appointments in advance (I want to try a facial at the local spa to see whether it makes a difference to my skin...for some reason it's not been looking its best recently). 

As it turns out I probably wouldn't have made it anyway as I got woken up at 4am by noisy drunk people coming back to the house which was a bit rubbish. Couldn't get back to sleep over the next 2 hours so in the end I just got up and went for a bike ride. So annoyed! I now feel tired and sick and have a shift starting at 12.30, which would have been fine had I got more than 4 hours of sleep but right now it's the last thing I want to do - and that's saying something when there are whales to be seen. Grrrr!

Breakfast - a banana, an orange, half a cereal bar (a healthy one made from seeds & dried fruit and not laced with sugar) during my bike ride and a bowl of cornflakes with soy milk when I got back. 2 peppermint teas which I'm hoping help my tummy, it's doing flips :( 

These cereal bars were a good find; a little more on the expensive side and they took a bit of getting used to, but now I can eat one without grimacing I'm hoping I'll learn to enjoy them in the next few weeks! 

Morning snack - handful of soya crisps

Lunch - 1 veggie wrap left over from yesterday, hummus and cucumber, handful of cashews 

To make a bad day even worse, I got a call after lunch from my boss informing me that I'd been on standby the whole time and I wasn't needed because we didn't have the numbers...not a happy bunny, I cancelled a yoga class and made myself eat an early lunch because of that shift :( I spent the rest of the afternoon in bed, napping and looking at flights back to the UK for November (my tax return came through yesterday so now I can actually afford to fly home once my visa is up!). 

Afternoon snacks - slice of wholegrain toast with hummus, handful of soya crisps

Dinner - chopped up chickpea burger over a bed of spinach, tomato, cucumber, capsicum and red onion. BBQ sauce to serve

Activity - 1.5 hour cycle, 30 min walk along the beach and 15 times up & down the steps

The Bay at 7am. Pretty, but would rather have been in bed!

On a side note, I should probably make more of an effort to cut down on bread - bread and pasta are included in vegan diets, but that's not to say they should be included in mine. I don't eat huge amounts of pasta (or at least I haven't recently) but bread is a major weak point. Yesterday I had 2 wraps and a bread roll, and the day before I had a slice of toast and a bread roll. Obviously my diet is already fairly restrictive so I don't want to be too fussy when it comes to things I'm actually allowed, but I reckon I'd see a difference faster if I really cut down i.e. limit myself to one slice a day, whether that's with avocado for brekky or hummus for lunch/an afternoon snack.