I did the run, swim, run in 6.03!!!!
It was a perfect, calm day and I gave it my all.
So the winner is Kelly.
Congrats Kelly!
Email me with your contact details and I'll send you Jane Kennedy's fabulous cookbook.
So the wonderfully talented and beautiful Jane Kennedy sent me a copy of her cookbook: Fabulous Food, Minus the Boombah to give away.
Now tomorrow I have to do a run, swim, run at one of my final training sessions for the Bronze Medallion course.
Bear with me,
this post will have a point.
Eventually.
So to enter this competition (and I will ship this cookbook which I've previously raved about here anywhere in the world)
A) become a follower of my wee blog
B) I'd like you to guess how long it will take me to do this run, swim, run.
Some of my previous times have been 6.40, 7.20 and 9.00 minutes (in my defence it was a horribly choppy stormy day and swimming was hard)
I'll pick a winner Sunday night. The winner will be whoever gets the closest time I will get tomorrow.
Good luck!
Yes I know it isn't Tuesday.
And technically speaking I'm not actually writing about THE book of Revelations. Mainly because I'm not qualified to do so and also because unless the Bible has added a weight loss section, then really, it doesn't belong in this post.
So I think I've figured out the active lifestyle part of my life, the Bronze medallion followed by the half marathon should keep me nicely occupied for the next few months anyway.
But the eating?
Oh the eating.
The reason I didn't post on Tuesday was because I was ashamed. Recently I've just been eating, well, badly. Very, very badly. And whilst I've been really good about my husband's food and the kids, well I've been snacking and eating all those thing I just shouldn't.
And I was there thinking on Tuesday that what I needed was a new cookbook. Some inspiration. Tasty food, easy recipes. I even went shopping for one and came home empty handed
Now I need to digress a little.
Bear with me because it's important.
I love Twitter. I Twitter alot. And recently I was discussing this with friends. A couple in particular were very scathing of Twitter. They see it as nothing more than a way for people to list what they are having for lunch and who wants to know about that? Well, alot of people actually.
Thanks to Twitter I was given my first "proper" writing job. Thanks to Twitter I have a new role as an ambassador for a major Australian bank. (Yes, I know, me, a bank. More on that another time) Thanks to Twitter, Andre Agassi wrote to thank me for what I said about his (absolutely brilliant) autobiography.
Thanks to Twitter I have a new cookbook.
In addition I have been (re)fired up about eating sensibly again.
I feel enormously privileged that Jane Kennedy one of Australia's foremost comedians, writers and mother of five took the time to engage in a chat with me. In addition to her other skills, she can cook. Very well. And she's written a book on the subject
So I bought her book. Devoured it from cover to cover. Metaphorically speaking.
There are only 2 other writers who have made me laugh out loud when reading them, they are, Bill Bryson and Vicki Iovine. Jane Kennedy can now join their ranks.
Her book is called: "Fabulous food, minus the boombah" (for those of you unfamilar with our peculiar dialect "Boombah" is a term Jane has used since her teens for food that makes your bum big. And judging from my reflection in the mirror I've been eating way too many boombah foods.
So today we started off baking this:
Healthy, yes. Delicious, yes. And easy to do.
Though Jane's attitude towards those who say:
"But I can't cook."
is:
"What are you, a baby?
Of course you can.
Get a frying pan, turn on the heat, sprinkle some sea salt and pepper on a steak, add some olive oil, cook the steak.
Look, you cooked."
And next week, when I do my skinny Tuesday post, on you know, Tuesday, I will have a copy to giveaway. Yes, I love it THAT much I'm going to schlep back to Target and buy one for one of you.
It's that good.
I'll talk more about the recipes in this book over the coming weeks and how user friendly they are. But the cottage pies seem to indicate I'm off to a good start!
Is there a cookbook you can recommend or that YOU love? I'm seriously trying to expand my pitiful repetoire even though as I keep saying over and over, I'm not a baker!
Also while you are here, please do me a favour, and pop over and congratulate my friend Rach on her fab weight loss!
Now shhh, I'm eating.