Janathon Day 15 : Blow out day

Fellow #janathon and #ukfitness bloggers be warned this post is more about food than exercise.

Everybody needs one ..... even the toughest of diet books say so ... fool your metabolism, a little of what you fancy etc. etc. Today was it. We took time out in the winter sunshine to explore a previously unvisited Puglia seaside town. This of course meant throwing my whole routine, such as it is, into chaos. We were out most of the day. As the day involved walking I'm not going to sweat the small stuff too much. This is the beginning of week 3 for the #janathon challenge and one  R and R day isn't going to hurt.

My exercise involved a stroll along the seafront here and then about an hour of walking around the seaside town of Savelletri, north of home and just east of Fasano. It is a beautiful little town, very well kept and with a lovely harbour and esplanade walks. Located on a rocky part of the Adriatic coastline not one for a beach trip but great for walking and lunch! The archeological area of Egnazia is a stones throw to the north, archeological buffs and historians could easily combine a morning trip to Egnazia with lunch in Savelletri followed by a post prandial stroll.

La Rotonda di Vito Galasso

 In fact we headed a little further south to the town of Torre Canne where we had the blow out lunch at La Rotonda di Vito Galasso on the seafront. Fabulous location, modern well presented restaurant with a menu full of traditional dishes. My choices were cozze gratinate, gamberi al brandy with chips (! blow out, remember !), and followed by panna cotta with fruit sauce. Very naughty, very nice and hopefully it won't knock me back too much.  How do I even begin to estimate the number of calories, fat etc in that lunch?

Panna Cotta con frutta di bosca

I'm proud to say that I did not have wine, in fact none of my companions had wine ...... a first in all our years of lunching out in Puglia. You could say I was celebrating the almost midpoint of #janathon and my two week weight check in showing a total loss for 2015 of 2.6kg. I am a happy bunny.

#janathon stats so far
walking       45.46km
cycling        11.00km
squats         460
gardening   9.5 hours

#alchohol free in 2015 -  9 days (today is day 10 ... not tempting fate by counting it until after midnight!)

#weightloss2015        2.6kg

Back to pounding the pavement tomorrow.