Thankfully today was a lot more successful - I managed to leave the house in good time and make it to the gym before 8am, and thus had time to complete my leg day routine. Managed to up the weights on several of the exercises - up to 140kg on the leg push machine and 30kg on the leg straighten and leg curl machines. (You'll notice that I have no real idea what the proper name for various exercises are, I tend to translate them into something I'll recognise when trying to remember where to go in the gym next!)
I think it's a bit of a cruel joke that they always seem to put gyms upstairs - after a leg day workout I end up walking down them like I've just had my knees operated on, and crossing the road becomes an absolute hazard as I hobble around like an arthritic penguin!
I'd brought in a load of the chicken I cooked last night, so I had that and some of my usual fruit and greek yogurt for breakfast, so that was already 46g of protein. I've still not quite got the hang of eating enough protein but today I was trying very hard! Lunch was a portion of the Frittata I cooked last night - another 29g of protein and only 300 calories. It tasted very strongly of the smoked paprika - not a bad flavour but it did rather drown everything else out. I think if I remade it, I'd use half the amount.
There was a moment of temptation mid-afternoon when people on Twitter started talking about Drumstick Lollies, which I love. I did pop downstairs to the Crap Tesco below my office, but thankfully for my waist, they didn't have any. I briefly considered a bag of the squashy ones, but my inner miser objected to paying £1.60 for them, so I returned empty handed.
This evening I was off to a comedy gig so I didn't have a lot of time to eat, which is where a portion of my home-made shepherd's pie from the freezer came in, followed by another slice of my protein brownie - between the two that was another 29g of protein. Not quite at my target but it brought me over 100g which is not too bad.
The comedy night was excellent, but meant I didn't get home til gone 11pm, so a late bedtime - alarm set for my 3rd gym session of the week in the morning. Wondering if I can make it 4 this week...
I think it's a bit of a cruel joke that they always seem to put gyms upstairs - after a leg day workout I end up walking down them like I've just had my knees operated on, and crossing the road becomes an absolute hazard as I hobble around like an arthritic penguin!
I'd brought in a load of the chicken I cooked last night, so I had that and some of my usual fruit and greek yogurt for breakfast, so that was already 46g of protein. I've still not quite got the hang of eating enough protein but today I was trying very hard! Lunch was a portion of the Frittata I cooked last night - another 29g of protein and only 300 calories. It tasted very strongly of the smoked paprika - not a bad flavour but it did rather drown everything else out. I think if I remade it, I'd use half the amount.
There was a moment of temptation mid-afternoon when people on Twitter started talking about Drumstick Lollies, which I love. I did pop downstairs to the Crap Tesco below my office, but thankfully for my waist, they didn't have any. I briefly considered a bag of the squashy ones, but my inner miser objected to paying £1.60 for them, so I returned empty handed.
This evening I was off to a comedy gig so I didn't have a lot of time to eat, which is where a portion of my home-made shepherd's pie from the freezer came in, followed by another slice of my protein brownie - between the two that was another 29g of protein. Not quite at my target but it brought me over 100g which is not too bad.
The comedy night was excellent, but meant I didn't get home til gone 11pm, so a late bedtime - alarm set for my 3rd gym session of the week in the morning. Wondering if I can make it 4 this week...
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