Coulda been worse

Totally went over yesterday... I should have realised something was up when I felt pretty squiffy part-way down a "small" (175ml) glass of wine before heading to dinner.  So, we went to "Relais de Venise" and I had my steak blue.  After more wine, the decision to have cheese after the steak was a no-brainer and by the time we got home, the alcohol really hit my stomach quite hard and I had to try to keep the nausea down by having a couple of slices of toast.  So.  Bad day in terms of staying under maintenance (basically I was waaaay over maintenance by about 1000kcals!).  Hey ho.  And, of course, seeing as I felt pretty rubbish today and my wrist is still wonky, I didn't gym today.  That final pound isn't going to drop off any time soon, methinks.

So, today was the day my "success story" was to appear in the Daily Mirror.  And, lo and behold, so it did.  We bought a copy on the way in to work this morning and flicked through enough to see it was a full page article with a huge "after" picture of me down one side.  Of course, the article isn't quite accurate in places and it's certainly embellished here and there, but it could have been a heck of a lot worse.  I'm feeling a bit weird about it all and find it even odder that other people think it is an inspiring story and can help others to lose weight too.  But, if it does that then I'm glad to have helped even in some small way.

And there was one photo from the shoot that I didn't totally hate; shame they didn't use it *cough*

Cynically speaking, the article is really just an advert for the web site I use for keeping my food and exercise journal - Weight Loss Resources - but I have no problem with that at all as that site was essential for me while I was losing weight and it continues to be as I maintain that loss.

Exercise - rest day

Calories (kcal) [kcals to maintain weight (inc. exercise)	1326 1796]
Protein (g)	138.4 (42.3%)
Carbohydrate (g)	135.9 (38.9%)
Fat (g)	27.3 (18.8%)
Fruit & Veg	14.6

Heads-up!

Off out for dinner now so might not be able to post later...

I'll be in the Daily Mirror tomorrow - awful copy, slight errors all over it and god knows which photos they'll use (plus I've not seen the "after" ones) - but anyway... keep an eye out!  (not that you'd normally buy or read the Daily Mirror though, right? ;o))

*ache*

OK, so I may not have burned a zillion calories at PUNCH yesterday, but my arms are telling me about it all in great detail today; forearms and triceps, hello!  DOMS! That, along with the dodgy wrist meant I ditched the Swiss Ball jack-knives today for fear of the wibblyness in my wrist meaning I wouldn't be able to support myself properly. I swapped them for the utterly appropriate oblique crunches, 'cause, yeah, they're totally equivalent (*cough*).

I am really very very tired today, I only got 471kcals out of gyammage (usually get just under 500 for the same time spent) and I'm absolutely knackered.  The tube journey this morning involved falling asleep instantly and waking upvery grumpy when I had to change at Kennington because my lovely Bank train had morphed into a Charing Cross one.  One more weights session this week, one more cardio one on Sunday, a massage tomorrow and I'll dial it down next week.  It's been lots of weeks since I had a gentle week without being ill from those dodgy beans and I think my body would like a bit of a rest now. Plus, it's skiing the week after next and I don't want to be totally shattered for that!

...which reminds me, I must get some goggles!

B - greek yogurt with 1 scoop, fruit compote and flaked almonds
S - small banana
*gym*
S - 1 scoop in skimmed milk
L - salad; lettuce, sweet pepper, cherry tomatoes, capers, smoked salmon and lemon juice
S - tangerines and a skinny latte
S - beef jerky
S - a pear
D -  plum tomato and basil sausages with mashed butternut squash and sweet potato

Exercise - 53 minutes gymmage

Calories (kcal) [kcals to maintain weight (inc. exercise)	1669 2194]
Protein (g)	151.1 (37.1%)
Carbohydrate (g)	166.7 (38.4%)
Fat (g)	44.5 (24.6%)
Fruit &Veg	12.5

*weak*

I went to PUNCH today at the gym, expecting a full-on really hard workout.  And I guess it could have been had I not been a beginner, paired with a pretty unfit beginner.  Also, and this is why posting will be short for at least today, I've done something to my right wrist.  It doesn't hurt, just feels pathetic and I can't move it as much as I should be able to.  It didn't feel right during the class either.  It's not tight or anything, just weak and feeble.  Typing is difficult as I can't move my wrist as I would usually, same goes for mouseing.  It's got a support bandage on for now and I've got strapping for tomorrow in case I still have feeble wrist by gym time, but the dull ache in my wrist, elbow and shoulder that's starting up isn't filling me with confidence.

Exercise - PUNCH for 44 minutes

Calories (kcal) [kcals to maintain weight (inc. exercise)	1745 2163]
Protein (g)	158.5 (35.6%)
Carbohydrate (g)	177.6 (37.4%)
Fat (g)	53.6 (27.1%)
Fruit & Veg	11.2

Wetherspoons food--

 A nice average gym (with added 3x15 reverse crunches, 3x12 tricep dips and 3x12 Kinesis flyes) and a run home, that was the plan.  Except when I got almost all the way to the tube station I get off at to run home from there, I realised my house keys were at work as I'd packed light into my running rucksack and forgotten to transfer them to the rucksack.  Wah!

Actually, not so bad.  I ran to the Wetherspoons near home and set up camp there to wait for Mr TOTKat to get out of his hugely over-running meeting and let me in to the house.  Of course, I got to the pub at about 1/4 past 7, starving.  So I had to eat something.  The thing is, Wetherspoons food is horrible.  I ended up having a jacket potato with chilli con carne.  WLR says it is 775 kcals for a 615g portion.  There is no way on god's earth that the plate that arrived had 651g of food on it.  The potato was -tiny-; perhaps about 250g maximum, the chilli portion was about a heaped tablespoon, no more than 100g.  And, being generous about it, there might have been scraping 100g of salasd with dressing.  Perhaps a total of 450g there.  But without scales, what can you do other than believe the standard portion size?  *sigh*  And it wasn't even nice.  The potato was grainy and dry and the chilli quite bland.

When we finally got home, just before 9pm, I decided I was hungry again and had the chilli I was going to have for dinner anyway, just without any carbs or veg.

Mad amount of protein and no beer :o)  Lots of exercise, but an indeterminate amount of food in the end, so I'm taking worst case scenario...

Exercise - 53 minutes gym, 27 minutes running

Calories (kcal) [kcals to maintain weight (inc. exercise) 2370 2500] Protein (g) 195.1 (33.3%) Carbohydrate (g) 226.0 (36.2%) Fat (g) 78.2 (30.1%) Fruit & Veg 13.9