Really hungry again

Maybe I'm going through one of those phases? It's happened before. Sometimes I go through a few days where I'm just hungry all of the time and I just have to accept that I'll eat up to maintenance and not only up to loss. Today, I'm hoping I can make up for a couple of days early this week by having done a good gym (there were no 14kg kettlebells, so I had to go up to 16kg ones from 12kg and drop the reps from 14 to 12 per set - it wasn't too heavy to do the walking lunges, but it was tricky to carry to the studio where I do most of my routine, whilst also carrying a 9kg dumbell and a mat and rolling a Swiss Ball along ;o)) and keeping it veggied up and portion sized down.

I did try the other flavour of "lunchies" today, but I can't help feeling they're a little bit too indulgent. Yes, they're "only" 100kcals per bar, but this one has -chocolate- on it! And it's not even 70% cocoa solids or or anything, it's bog-standard milk chocolate. I think that, overall, they're less satisfying than the Dorset Cereals bars, but they're very very tasty and have good tang factor to offset the sweet.

Having discovered that sweet potato and butternut squash mash is really really smooth and sticky and delicious, I'm very much looking forward to dinner tonight...

B - greek yogurt with 1 scoop and frozen blueberries
S - banana, apricot and milk chocolate "lunchies" bar
*gym*
S - 1 scoop chocolate in semi-skimmed milk
L - salad: spinach, sweet pepper, sugar snap peas, capers, chicken fillet and mustard dressing
S - tangerines
S - carrot and houmous
D - sausages and sweet potato & butternut squash mash

Calories (kcal) [kcals to maintain weight (inc. exercise)	1564 2233]
Protein (g)	140.8 (36.3%)
Carbohydrate (g)	141.8 (34.3%)
Fat (g)	50.6 (29.4%)
Fruit & Veg	10.1

Hungry day

Really wanted to go to the gym today but my mind won over my body and I protected my rest day. Rest days are important and it's sometimes hard to remember that.

Having not gone to the gym, my eating times are a bit different and that's resulted in being hungry at odd times (lord knows there's a lot of protein today so it can't be that); 1 hour after having my nommy lunch salad I was still hungry. Meh. Still, I am liking my yogurty breakfasts (greek yogurt with vanilla whey mixed in, fruit compote and flaked almonds on top):-


And there was a v. tasty dinner of Aberdeen Angus and cracked black pepper chipolatas on butternut squash mash (roasted and mashed squash is sooo intense and sticky and tasty!):-


Also, today had a cheat meal in it, due to extenuating circumstances, a medical need for tea and cake and wanting to be supportive and inclusive:-



Inclusivity tastes... OMG, SO GOOD! Morrisons Lemon Meringue Cup Cakes are DIVINE! They take a lemon sponge cup cake, make a cavity in the middle and fill it with lemon curd and top the thing with lemon butter cream and a tiny sprinkling of meringue crumbs. I've not had cake in a while and it was amazing. I could taste every distinct flavour; the butter; the icing sugar; the floury, fatty, sugary, moist sponge; the tangy, sticky, zingy lemon curd... But no, this is not the start of a slippery slide into stuffing my face with cakes, it was a treat, a cheat, a free meal and certainly has been counted in my food diary for today and I know it's empty calories but I don't feel guilty for eating it. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed sharing the pair that we bought and sharing the experience of the fabulous flavours.

Exercise - rest day

B - greek yogurt with 1 scoop vanilla, fruit compote and flaked almonds
S - banana
L - salad - spinach, tomatoes, walnuts, capers, baked chicken breast and honey and mustard dressing
S - beef jerky!
S - 2x tangerines
S - Lemon Meringue Cup Cake
D - Aberdeen Angus and cracked peppercorn chipolatas and mashed butternut squash

Calories (kcal) [kcals to maintain weight (inc. exercise)	1840 1799
Protein (g)	140.8 (31.1%)
Carbohydrate (g)	145.1 (30.3%)
Fat (g)	76.7 (38.4%)
Fruit & Veg	12.0