Dieting

I have no idea as to what a vegetarian equivalent of a full English is veggie. I did have a big pile of mushrooms with my fry up though............does that count! .

There are lots of vegetarian/vegan options for a fry-up: sausages (the Heck ones are nice), tempeh "bacon", tofu scramble (coloured yellow with turmeric), and even vegan black pudding! Add in mushrooms, tomatoes, baked beans and toast, and you won't have mush room left on your plate

At the moment I'm mostly following the Eat To Live diet by an American doctor called Joel Fuhrman, that prioritises high nutritional density foods. I say "mostly", because I'm not enough of a masochist to eat nothing but massive heaps of vegetables, fruit and beans three times a day! Tonight I'm having a Goodfellas vegan pizza and some red wine, as a reward for eating well for a whole week.

However I do try to eat mostly whole, unprocessed food - I have a big salad for lunch and I've even grown to like green smoothies, though it required a hefty investment in a high-powered blender that can blitz even kale into a smooth, drinkable texture!

I'm hoping that spring gardening will help as well - I lost a couple of pounds last summer despite eating quite a bit of comfort food (free-from bakewell tarts were my go-to!) and still have a lot of heavy work to do setting up the remaining raised beds.