Nikina70's Journal, 13 Nov 20

Last week was the first time in ages that my daily average was 1690 calories. I thought I'd have a much better weigh-in this week, but it was not to be. It did say 64.6kg on a rug, but I'm going with the hard, if uneven, surface reading cos that's how I started and want to compare like with like. One week of sticking to my calories is not going to do the trick as per usual so I'll have to keep trying to be more consistent.

Did two 40min YouTube workouts this week. On Sunday I started an hour workout and just wasn't feeling it so stopped after 40 minutes and added a 15min Sydney Cummings strength workout instead. The pace of the first one was just a bit manic for me - not really a fan of HIIT and lesson learned although I still think I could do with some more cardio so will see if there are some low impact workouts to add. I also can't really jump around and make too much noise without disturbing my elderly mom, in the room next to ours, who sleeps quite late on week days. On Sunday she was out so I could go wild.

I prefer to go for a long walk so on Tuesday before our weekly grocery shopping we went for a walk, but it only clocked up 3000 steps, which was not enough for me - so hopefully we'll crank that up this week.

Tomorrow we're off to another market so I have no idea what I'll end up eating or if I'll be able to guestimate or just give up on tracking for the weekend. This week has been ok although not as good as last week. I've decided that if I can keep the first 5 days of the week under 7500 calories total that gives me enough to play with over the weekend to still stay under 1700 daily average so I'll try to work with that in mind this coming week.

My mom and sister, who we're staying with temporarily are really challenging me. They have dessert/snacks/treats every evening and often more than one decadent thing is available. I prefer to save calories and only have those things on the weekend (although if they fit into my calorie count I usually do have something). They have things like cappuccino sticks as well and a glass jar of cookies on display - calories everywhere you look... although I've learned to just ignore them. I have lived a long enough time as a size 16/18 - want to continue living my life as a size 12/10 - never want to go back!

My tactic this week was to drink a glass of cold water from the fridge roughly every hour and I've been brushing my teeth after I have my last snack for the evening. Some of my snacks this week have been a bowl of paw paw and one block of Rolo chocolate, which I have as two separate snacks with black coffee - and really savor it. Hope I can keep this up! Christmas is 6 weeks away and summer is here, yikes! Would love my upper arms to be more toned and this pesky little muffin top to get gone, but it's all good. Will try to just keep at it.

Have a good one y'all!

67.1 kg Lost so far: 18.9 kg.    Still to go: 2.1 kg.    Diet followed: Reasonably Well.

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1887 kcal

Fat: 81.91g | Prot: 59.21g | Carbs: 196.51g.   Breakfast: Pawpaw, Bokomo Pronutro Banana Flavoured, Tap Water, Nature's Choice Apple Cider Vinegar, Kellogg's All Bran Flakes, Kauai Plant Protein, Health Connection Wholefoods Flaxseed Powder, Backstrap Molasses. Lunch: Mediterranean Delicacies Hummus, Nature's Choice Apple Cider Vinegar, Carrots, Cabbage, SPAR 100% Lemon Juice, B-Well Original Tangy Mayo, Woolworths Baby Spinach, Cucumber (with Peel), Tomatoes, Hard-Boiled Egg. Dinner: Woolworths Cabbage Carrot Tangy Mayo Coleslaw, Tomatoes, Namaqua Extra Lite Crispy Dry White Wine, Woolworths Baby Spinach, Fry's Chicken Style Burgers, Wellington's Sweet Chilli Sauce, McCain Sweet Potato Fries, Sasko Low GI Seeded Brown Buns. Snacks/Other: Chocolate Biscuit, Pawpaw, Nestle Rolo Slab, Fritos Sweet Chilli Flavour, Nestle Ricoffy. more...