Ups and Downs

No problem getting enough fibre today. Had my usual 4.5 g of fibre from breakfast, 2g with my morning snack, almost 10g with lunch and another 5g in the Sponser Protein Snack bar. Of course over 20g of fibre came from the Cook Caribbean pot with all its beans, lentils and brown rice!

No, today’s problem was the after dinner one. My husband and I were both home late so we had separate dinners. I had chosen my healthy Cook pot for dinner, followed by a bit of dark chocolate for a treat, and was content. Then my husband comes home with Champagne! Can’t really say no to that can you? And of course once you start drinking, it becomes much easier to eat more. So I was at a respectable 1770 calories for the day, with an almost perfect nutrient balance, but after champagne and cheese I finished the day at 2022 calories with far too few carbohydrates.

Now I have no regrets, as life is meant to be lived and enjoyed, and I am thrilled to be with someone who thinks to bring me treats. It’s just that this is the fourth day of this week where my daily calories have topped 2000. I’ve done all my workouts for the week, so I doubt I will actually gain weight, but if you’re trying to lose weight you can’t out train an unhealthy diet. And I will really have to focus during my rest week next week, as I will only be doing a couple of light training sessions instead of the five relatively heavy sessions a week I have been doing for the past three weeks.

The Score:

Calories:	Protein:	Carbs:	Fat:	Alcohol:	Fibre:
2022.49	117.93g	198.70g	66.20g	17.2g	43.40g
	24%	40%	30%	6%
Calories burned through exercise:		480

What I ate:

Time	Item	Amount
07:45	Vitamins - Centrum Advance A to Zinc, 400iu of Vitamin E, 1000iu Vitamin D3 and 500mg Glucosamine sulphate	1 each
	Cold water	200mL
	Mattesson's Turkey rashers	3 rashers
	Bob's Red Mill Pure Oats	40g
	with raisins	20g
	Sainsbury’s pressed apple juice	200mL
08:45	Black Tea	500mL
09:30	Easy run, 33 minutes
10:30	TriBerry Nuun electrolyte tablet in water	750mL
11:00	Total Greek yoghurt	125g
	Sainsbury's frozen mixed blueberries and strawberries	100g
	Sponser vanilla Recovery Shake	20g (1 scoop)
	mixed with skim milk	150mL
13:45	Glorious New England Butternut Squash soup	300g
	Genius brown bread toast	2 slices
	Princes Tuna chunks (in brine, drained)	59g
	with Hellmann's light mayonnaise	13g
	and Branston gherkin relish	13g
	Raw Tomato	140g
14:15	Green Tea	250mL
16:45	Sponser Protein Snack bar	1 bar
20:15	Cook Caribbean Pot	300g
	Orange, mango and cinnamon tea	250mL
	Lindt Excellence 70% cocoa dark chocolate	20g
20:30	Champagne	100mL
21:30	Sainsbury's creamy blue stilton	30g
	Champagne	100mL

Plus 500 to 1500mL of cold water sipped from a water bottle throughout the day.