A Very Long Day

Yesterday my husband and I attended the funeral of a family member in Halifax. As it was in the late afternoon, and we had spent so much time with the family in the days immediately after the death, we decided against going up early or staying overnight. So we left London just before 10am, were in good time to attend the funeral at 3pm, spent a decent amount of time at the wake and were back on the road home by 6:30pm. We did have a nice clear run back south, and managed to get in before 10:45pm. But it was a very long and exhausting day, physically and emotionally.

Proper planning ensured I was generally OK for food. We packed sandwiches for lunch, plenty of snacks, and knew which services to stop at to get the nice M&S gluten free salads. Of course, there was plenty of comfort eating of chocolates in the car, but considering my usual reaction to stress is to mainline Doritos, I don’t think I did too badly.

The only time I was caught out was at the wake itself – sandwiches, pizza, breaded cheese . . . . basically deep fried you name it. Although my husband assured me it was actually quite greasy and I wasn’t missing much, the smell was very tempting. I did feel out of place having my Protein Snack bar while everyone else was tucking into the catered food. And yes, some people were looking at me oddly as the wake was quite small and I was clearly the only person not eating (and not everyone knows I am a Celiac). No idea how to handle such a situation, since it clearly would be inappropriate to go around telling people I’m Celiac and going on about the catering having anything I could eat. But as I am unlikely to see many of those people again, I’m not too fussed about it.

Here’s to a better week!

The Score:

Calories:	Protein:	Carbs:	Fat:	Alcohol:	Fibre:
2638.61	117.67g	306.30g	94.80g	13.90g	50.90g
	18%	46%	32%	4%
Calories burned through exercise:		Rest Day

What I ate:

Time	Item	Amount
07:30	Vitamins - Centrum Advance A to Zinc, 400iu of Vitamin E, 1000iu Vitamin D3 and 500mg Glucosamine sulphate	1 each
	Cold water	200mL
	Mattesson's Turkey rashers	3 rashers
	Sainsbury's Freefrom oats	50g
	with Sultanas	20g
	Sainsbury's pressed apple juice	200mL
08:00	Black Tea	400mL
11:15	Brazil nuts	6g
	Cashews	17g
	Fresh Blueberries	90g
	Cadbury's Chocolate mascots	1 mascot
	Black Tea	500mL
13:15	Genius brown bread toast	2 slices
	Princes Tuna chunks (in brine, drained)	60g
	with Hellmann's light mayonnaise	13g
	and Branston gherkin relish	10g
	Classics by Thorntons chocolates	4 pieces
14:30	Tea with milk and sugar	400mL
17:15	Sponser Protein Snack bar	1 bar
	Glennan's Parsnips crisps	27g
	Amaretto and orange juice	200mL
20:00	M&S Fuller Longer Smoked mackerel with lentil and apple salad	1 serving
	Costa Steamed skim milk with brown sugar	1 small
21:30	Classics by Thorntons chocolates	4 pieces
22:30	500mg Glucosamine sulphate	1 pill

Plus 500 to 1500mL of cold water sipped from a water bottle throughout the day.