Sickly Saturday

Went to the gym today. Infact, I am going to the gym 6 days a week after being informed by my trainer that no amount of cardio is too much when you are trying to lose large amounts of weight. I was fairly tired before I started & I did an hour of cardio (the cardio circuit my trainer set out for me). When I got off the machines I was pretty shaky & feeling unwell. I put it down to the fact I didnt eat before training (another hot tip for burning more calories). As I got changed, the nausea got worse. By the time I got to my bike I was needing to be sick in a rather spectacular hurry.

It ends up that this is normal when over exerting yourself. It is expected when you have done very little physical work & go hell for leather into training. It can last for days or months. Lord. I am using it as incentive to keep going - push through it until training doens't make me sick anymore. Hopefully it wont last too long.

I jumped back on my bike & rode into the city to meet Kynan for Vietnamese lunch. I was still feeling awful sick & had to eat lunch incredibly slowly to avoid being sick again.
On the way home Kynan suggested going to The Monument. It's one of the first things we put on our "Must see in London" list. It a tower, designed by Wren, to commemorate The Great Fire of London. Kynan cycles past it twice a day & we had never made it there. So off we went. In hind sight, the 311 stairs were probably not what i needed after the day I had already experienced. Crying from about the 200th step, I made it up there in the end. The view was much better than I'd expected - somehow from the ground, it looked like the
modern buildings surrounding it might have thwarted any chance of glimpsing anything interesting.


We took a leisurely ride home along the thames & stopped of at a wonderful Anatolian resturant in Waterloo called Tas. It's another place I have been busting to go to & only just made it to. For those at home - similar food to the Turkish Pide House, but a bit nicer. Linen table clothes & live classical guitarist.

***WARNING - Anyone coming to visit will be dragged there to eat!***