No trainer session

Today was supposed to include a catch-up session with my trainer, but the poor dear dislocated his finger and broke a bit of it as well and is still trying to get it x-rayed.  I bumped into him on the way out of the gym, looking all strapped up but very chirpy (he's just like that all the time, I think) despite having spent 5 hours in the local A&E waiting for an x-ray that still hasn't happened!  Anyhoo, I had a gym session anyway, by myself.  Which was kinda good as I was apprehensive about today's session and what it might entail.  I did increase one thing in today's session; I upped the reverse crunches to 3x15 interleaved with the Swiss Ball jackknives.

Tonight is my night in this week and I've got some lovely beef chilli with softened courgette ribbons, shredded onion and toasted pine nuts on the side to eat while I read "Men's Fitness".  Lots of fitnessy people I follow have said it's good, so I thought I'd give it a try this month seeing as there's a freebie with it as well.  Let's see, shall we?

Oh!  And we has kitchen scales again!  Muuuch better.  I didn't realise quite how much I rely on them for most meals until the old ones broke.  It was quite unnerving, guessing stuff, though some measures could be approximated using tablespoons, cups and mls.  It's just not the same as weighing though!

B - greek yogurt with 1 scoop, fruit compote and a sprinkle of grape nuts
S - Dorset Cereals bar; 3 berries and cherries
*gym*
S - 1 scoop in semi-skimmed milk
L - salad; lettuce, sweet pepper, pomegranate seeds, celery, capers, cherry tomatoes, chicken fillet and lemon juice
S - tangerines
S - carrot and houmous
S - banana
D - beef chilli with courgette, onion and pine nuts
S - chunk of ciabatta with stilton (NOM!)

Exercise - 53 minute gym (HRmax - 184, HRavg - 159)

Calories (kcal) [kcals to maintain weight (inc. exercise)	1736 2218
Protein (g)	150.6
Carbohydrate (g)	178.1
Fat (g)	46.7
Fruit & Veg	15.2

Catch up...

Wednesday:-

Exercise - nogym - no time!

Calories (kcal) [kcals to maintain weight (inc. exercise)	2228 1798]
Protein (g)	148.1
Carbohydrate (g)	148.4
Fat (g)	51.5
Fruit & Veg	5.2

Thursday:-

Exercise - scheduled rest day, but was going to run, but it rained really hard

Calories (kcal) [kcals to maintain weight (inc. exercise)	1612 1794]
Protein (g)	139.3
Carbohydrate (g)	150.6
Fat (g)	48.8
Fruit & Veg	11.6

Not as bad as it could have been

Last night's event could have been a right old mess, but I had a plan and due to delays in travel between the wine bar and the venue, I drank a little less than I had anticipated which was even better.  I even laid off any carbs during dinner, but then endedup scoffing toast when I got home because I was so hungry by then!  Photos and details laster when I've had a chance to get them off my camera and if they're not all fuzzy and out of focus.

The down side of yesterday was that work was so busy that I didn't make it to the gym for number 2 weights session this week.  So I've had 2 rest days in a row and I'm very much not up to the cross-trainers at the gym near work (they're a different model to the ones everywhere else I've been/go and have a much bigger range of movement which is significantly harder work even at lower resistance level settings) so I'm going for a run when I get home.  I can't even do the "get of the tube a few stops early and run home from there" thing today 'cause I have to cart home all the stuff I left at work last night and the new kitchen scales etc.

The best laid plans...

I was going to run part-way home tonight, but I got invited to an event tomorrow night which is black tie.  "How does that add up?", you might ask.  Well, I have one dress suitable for black tie events and it's needed dry cleaning since Christmas and I've not got around to it.  So, in order to be suitably attired tomorrow, I had to (ohyes, had to!) run out at lunchtime and buy a new dress.  Um, and shoes to go with it:-

Which meant that I had to get them home tonight as there was no way I was leaving them in the office overnight.  So, I wasn't going to cram them into a tiny rucksack and ruin them either, so no running this evening.

So.  The trick now is planning for tomorrow; I need to pack gym stuff, evening stuff and wear stuff during the day that I won't mind crumpling up into my desk drawer overnight tomorrow night.  Complicated!  Big gymmage session planned for tomorrow to help with potential excess in the evening, but I'm going to have to be very careful for lots of reasons; it's mid-week, I'm almost there with that 2lbs I wanted to finally shift, and my new dress is very figure-hugging, so not much room for scoffing anyway :oD

Also, we are sans functioning kitchen scales at the moment (they got a bit dropped and have been quite unhappy since), so breakfast was slightly estimating this morning, though I did look up the conversion for US cups to grams of yogurt, which helped.  I cajoled the scales into working long enough to weigh bits of tonight's dinner and the new scales will arrive tomorrow but then they'll sit in my desk drawer until Thursday evening as well as my office clothes for the day.

Today went like this:-

B - greek yogurt with 1 scoop, blueberries and flaked almonds
S - a pear
L - salad; spinach, sweet pepper, capers, celery, apricots and a chicken fillet
S - tangerines and a small handful of yogurt coated banana chips
S - carrot and houmous
D - salmon fillet with couscous, peas and sweetcorn

Exercise - none

Calories (kcal) [kcals to maintain weight (inc. exercise)	1390 1788]
Protein (g)	115.9 (33.2%)
Carbohydrate (g)	136.1 (36.5%)
Fat (g)	47.0 (30.3%)
Fruit & Veg	8.2

Ain't nothing without a goal

And therein lies the problem.

I -do- have some goals for this year and the first one is coming up real fast now; first ever triathlon in 6 weeks time.  The problem is that that goal conflicts in some ways with the one I'm really keen on, which is losing body fat.

I need to pack in more cardio training than I have been, otherwise I am going to fail at the triathlon, but there are only so many days in the week, it's still dark in the evenings and I dont't want to drop down from 3 weights sessions per week and still keep at least 1 rest day in the week whilst also being quite fatigued around exercise at the moment.

Running practice can be fixed by getting off a few tube stops early on the way home and running the rest of the way.  Yes, that take a bit of planning, but it's not a big deal.  It also won't impinge on my weight training sessions at all.  Swimming, I can squeeze in at least once a week on either Tuesday or Thursday as a cardio session.  The problem is the cycling.  And as that's the longest part of the triathlon and one of my weaker disciplines, it's going to have the highest impact on my overall aggregate time.

So. I think I may have a bit of a plan to get me through the first triathlon, but it's all a bit muddy after that.

Nice, pretty salad today though:-

And because we went swimming...

 

Haagen Dazs Summer Smoothie that's separated a bit after being in the freezer for a good few months now.  Still rather nom!

B - greek yogurt with 1 scoop and Dorset Cereals muesli
S - banana
*gym*
S - 1 scoop in semi-skimmed milk
L - salad; spinach, sweet peppers, celery, capers, pomegranate seeds, chicken fillet, walnuts and lemon juice
S - pistachios and tangerines
S - beef jerky
*swim*
D - beef chilli with couscous, peas and sweetcorn
S - sorbet/ice-cream thing (Haagen Dazs Summer Smoothie)

Calories (kcal) [kcals to maintain weight (inc. exercise)	1880 2382]
Protein (g)	173.2 (37.9%)
Carbohydrate (g)	185.2 (38%)
Fat (g)	48.0 (23.6%)
Fruit & Veg	10.4