Nikina70's Journal, 03 Aug 22

This morning I did:
growingannanas - 30 MIN NO JUMPING ALL STANDING HIIT With Weights - No Repeat, Low Impact Home Workout

Quite a nice one. My weights were a bit too heavy for some of the things she was doing so I just did chest presses and skull crushers on the floor when she did overhead presses and alternated on others where I just couldn't handle both weights at once. Still a great workout though and I felt so good afterwards. Hope the doms won't be as hectic as last week. Pity I didn't manage one on Sunday and this is my first one for the week. But, I haven't been feeling quite right so I'm just glad we did a 45min walk every day since Sunday.

Calories last week ended at 1820 daily average. So, I will work on decreasing that this month. It looks like this week will just be a maintain. Looking at my graph for the year it actually looks like I've pretty much between maintaining around this weight for over a year now. I would say I'm frustrated, but it's really not that bad. What I need is some more consistency, which I know I've been lacking lately. I thought summer would be the time for getting back to it in earnest, but I've just been in such a slump and let myself get engulfed by work - not sure how to describe it. I just let it take over my life for a bit and convince myself it's a good thing. In lots of ways it is, but letting it throw my routine out is just not good.

Anyhoo, because I'm changing things up a bit today I had some protein powder with a banana and a bit of cereal this morning. Previously I was breaking my fast at noon and having a giant bowl of oats with various things mixed in, which is very satisfying, but I just felt like some seeded bread with humus for a change - would have loved some avo, but it was not to be.

After listening to the talk on Protein recently - thanks Anne! - I think I need to aim for closer to 84g per day rather than the 70g I was trying for - and not really reaching. So I'll be getting some new plant based protein powder and perhaps a protein bar to take daily soon. Not looking forward to the research involved tbh, but needs must... My last tub has lasted a good few months, but I'm really sick of the vanilla flavour now. I would prefer something unflavoured, but I realise that could also be horrible sandy weird paste, but then at least I can flavour my oats with fruit, peanut butter or cocoa powder and soya yoghurt, which has enough sugar in it anyway rather than having artificial sweeteners I don't really like.

Hope you're all having a great Wednesday! xxx

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1604 kcal

Fat: 63.40g | Prot: 70.79g | Carbs: 185.23g.   Breakfast: Tap Water, Harvest Morn Corn Flakes, Bananas, Applied Nutrition Vegan-Pro Vanilla. Lunch: Acti Leaf Soya Milk, Sainsbury's Cheddar Cheese, Co-Op Caramelised Onion Houmous, Tropicana Original Orange with Juicy Bits, Tomatoes, Cucumber (with Peel), Deluxe Wholemeal Seeded Farmhouse. Dinner: Asda Garlic & Coriander Naan, Aldi Tropical Blast Zero Sugar, Tree of Life Soya Chunks, Sainsbury's Indian Vegetable Curry. Snacks/Other: Snackrite Onion Rings, Sainsbury's Belgian Chocolate Eclair, Nescafe Instant Coffee. more...

1918 kcal

Exercise: Stretching (yoga) - 5 minutes, Weight Training (moderate) - 25 minutes, Walking (slow) - 2/mph - 45 minutes, Resting - 14 hours and 45 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...