30 Chic Days – The Fourth Series: Day 8

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Welcome to Day 8 of the 30 Chic Days series.  If you’ve just joined us, you can catch up from Day 1 here.

I’m following a simple format, logging my day.  The goals are:

Awareness of what I’m doing each day

Where I am placing my focus, and

Remembering what I want to achieve.

Here’s what I will be reporting on each day for thirty days:

What I ate

What I wore

How I moved my body

What I read

My focus for the day

Day 8:

What I ate

Hot tea with milk

Breakfast – Fresh chopped pineapple, apple and mandarin with Greek yoghurt, toasted coconut flakes, raw almonds, brazils and walnuts plus a sprinkling of tropical flavour cereal as a topping, soy milk latte

Lunch – Rice crackers with cheese, sliced carrot on the side, a peanut butter bliss ball and coffee with creamy milk.

Afternoon tea – two mandarins.  I could have easily been tempted by other things, but we had nothing around so I had mandarins.  One of the secrets to not eating junk food?  Don’t have it in the house.  If you have to buy it for others, choose flavours/products you don’t like so you won’t be tempted.

Dinner – Pan-fried chicken breast with sliced onions and mushrooms in a creamy sauce, mashed potato and steamed vegetables – carrots, broccoli, green beans and cauliflower.  Two squares of 72% cacao chocolate and a decaf coffee.

What I wore

At home for the day I wore comfortable and cosy loungewear – black viscose clingy leggings and a black viscose clingy top.  My darling has called me ‘the cat burglar’ on occasion in this outfit but I don’t take any notice of him.  I wore my exercise clothes for my walk, not the cat burglar outfit.

How I moved

I went for a one hour walk around our neighbourhood mid-afternoon.  It rained lightly for the first third, but I had my rain jacket and an umbrella so I was okay.

What I read

Another favourite book that I love to pick up for a read is Veronique Vienne’s The Art of Being a Woman.  Sometimes it is overshadowed by other books on my shelf, and then when I have a read, like tonight, I think to myself ‘this is the only book I’ll ever need to read about French women’.  Of course I have other loves on my bookshelf, so I can’t really mean that, but when I’m reading Veronique’s work I do.  Sort of like the irrepressible love-rat guy who truly believes he is in love with whichever girl he is with at the time.  I know, it's a terrible analogy.  Another book Veronique wrote is quite a cult classic.  I saved up and bought myself a second-hand copy a while back (it’s out of print) – called French Style.  It’s a fun read but I think it's scarcity has pushed the price up beyond its value.

My focus for the day

Today was elegance.  Not that I wore pearls or anything like that, but I just kept the word ‘elegance’ top of mind and let it float around.  It was a nice feeling and it helped me in many small ways – with my posture, deciding what to eat, how I felt, the music I listened to (Bach).  Just lovely!

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See you tomorrow, be chic!