The evening we arrived I ate very light ( a 165kCal salad and a 78kCal oat bar with some diet coke and peppermint tea) meal and had been to the gym in the afternoon. Before my other half arrived at the hotel, I squeezed in a 30 minute ish (just over) swim in the hotel pool and had a chill (or heat!?) in the steam room and Sauna!
On the Saturday morning I got up for 0800 and did a 40 minute x-train workout followed by a 30 minute swim which was about 1km / 1000m of swimming and tricep dips.
We had a healthy breakfast in general, a couple of mini pastries, fruit and fibre with skimmed milk and some fresh fruit! It was spot on. We then spent about 5 hours walking around town shopping, and not doing an awful lot of eating. I had a mini sushi for lunch at 170kCal and another oat bar at 78kCal. Needless to say I was hungry by dinner time!
I snacked on a couple of apples between lunch and dinner... and then had this AMAZING feast of:
Nocellara olives,
Beef Carpaccio
Starter sized portion (boy am I glad as even that was big!) of rigatoni with a slow cooked beef, tomato and porcini mushroom ragu with a side salad
Some Italian bread- Ciabatta, Foccacia and rosemary thin crisp bread
Crostata di Lampone with real madagascan Vanilla ice-cream
One Caffe Italiano (Long black coffee with Galliano liquor) with a mini biscotti
2 Bellini Lampone (Black raspberry bellini - Chambord with prosecco)
1 Bellini Fragola (Strawberry Bellini - Crushed strawberries with prosecco)
1 Martini Frutta of the forest (not so nice!)
Boyfriend had the bread and olives (we shared)
Calamari Fritti
Pizza Fina - Pollo Parmigiano
Sorbetto Limone
Plus a couple of Peroni beers!
Yes it was 2000 calories of food but a) I had worked out rigorously during the day b)planned to eat that many so went easier on lunch and breakfast and snacks and c) opted for smaller/healthier portions/dressings where possible. I still didn't go over my DIET calorie intake... Good for me eh!?
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