Lots And Lots of Football!

This past Friday was our last day at work for two weeks! That's right... 16 whole days off with nothing planned but lots and lots of relaxing and football watching.  *bliss*

As I am sure most of you know (even if you don't follow football/soccer) the World Cup has started. Last night was the England vs USA match.  As I am sure you all know I live in England but I still support USA and there has been quite a bit of banter at work regarding this match.  I would have loved to have had a win but having a draw at 1-1 was about the most politically correct score there could have been.  We kept up with England even though they planned on blowing past us and now nobody has bragging rights.  Good stuff!

As you can see in my previous posts I had started Couch 2 5K but I have decided to put a hold on it.  I made it through Week 1 Day 3 but noticed that my right knee was not liking it at all.  I had to take three days off from walking because of it and that is not want I'm wanting to do.  Right now I'm trying to lose at least 2lbs a week and yes working myself up to Running 3 Miles straight would help with the exercise but if it stops me from even being able to walk then I'm not going to get any exercise done.  So for now I am going to hold off on running and just keep walking as much as I can.  My knee still hurts a little a day after a long walk (did 5 miles yesterday) but I'm allowing myself one day on and one day off to rest and it seems to be better then.  After I have gotten myself to a comfortable weight then I will look to start the program again.

When Andy and I started tracking all of our calories I thought it was going to be a pain in the butt to track every little thing but honestly we find it so easy now.  We are both tracking them at My Fitness Pal and it has to be the easiest thing to use ever!  Almost all of the food we have come across is already listed and only a few things have had to be corrected. 

I have also found my measuring to be much easier than I first thought because of me purchasing the below cutting board.

When I first moved to England I found it so hard to cook here.  I am used to using tablespoons, ounces, cups and Fahrenheit.  Now everything is in milliliters, grams, liters and Celsius.  It has been a learning curve to say the least.  Well know with this handy cutting board I just have to look down and compare. 

I love it!