Tender Loving Care

Exercise: Escalators
Juice (lent): apple/pineapple/spinach and lime juice; orange/spinach juice and coconut/pineapple/apple and orang juice

I got the coconut combo juice from Crush which is a really cool juice bar but am finding that bought squeezed juices just don't taste the same as the ones I prepare at home. Okay I know that is hardly a revelation. Humour me I'm thinking out loud.

The escalator habit has kicked in, I can't stand still on an escalator anymore. Of course going down is easy but going up is a whole different ball game. But now I always climb up, I think last saturday I did four and that's after a run and bodyweight exercises. The escalators are great for me because I don't have to make time for them, they are already a part of my life, I'm just leveraging them for my fitness goals!

It was my birthday on Mother's Day, but was a very low-key. So I have decided that I am having some belated birthday TLC, afterall you only get one a year, well unless you're the queen. So I have back-ordered all 20 back copies of Living Nutrition magazine (now re-named vibrance) www.livingnutrition.com and look forward to delving in. Plus I have been given a Vogue subscription as a gift. Vogue has always been my favourite women's magazine. The writing is top quality and there's the photography, the clothes. It's just another form of art. I never cease to be amazed what people can do with a bit of fabric! I just love absorbing it all, it's not about accumulating stuff, although the option to acquire is always there! I did buy myself a lovely floral vintage dress for my birthday. It's so different and brings a big smile to my face when I wear it, and some admirers too! I have also been treated to an Elle magazine subscription, my second favourite fashion mag, young, street and very British. So I think my twin passions (not strictly true there are a few more) of food and fashion are covered.

Not quite!

I have also bulk bought some cases of Dr Martin's Coco milk for when I fancy an especially yummy smoothie or for adding to banana ice-cream. http://www.dr-martins.at/home.php And the last thing is I am going to order myself an all-natural scrummy raw birthday cake from Raw fairies! www.rawfairies.com once I'm back on solids again.

That's what you call TLC and it starts at home. Look after yourselves now.