Yesterday started out as a normal day and I thought I was going to do well with the amount of work I had done in the garden to make sure that it was finished by the end of the day. All the plants were bought and planted, the garden was tidy, everything was watered and it had only taken all day. I had also exercised and walked about 15,000 steps. But unfortunately, the tiredness wore away any semblance of resistance I had and it ended badly...in terms of a healthy lifestyle.
Cue a Chinese takeaway and a few beers and all the good work was gone. Now don't get me wrong, I absolutely thoroughly enjoyed eating the takeaway and the beers in the now splendidly looking garden in the late evening sun and I do not feel guilty about having them, I am simply disappointed in myself for having the takeaway and beers when I wanted to have a good week and lose 2-3 pounds. Now I will be struggling simply to maintain. But then today happened.
Today I have tidied the rest of the garden, which will have used quite a few calories. I woke up and did my exercises, using up a few more calories. I have walked 25,840 steps, so that will have used up a significant amount of calories and I have also cleaned out two cars and hoovered them throughout, which took me a good 4 hours, so a few more calories there.
I have also eaten extremely healthily today and haven't gone anywhere near my calorie limit yet.I had my usual yoghurt with fruit for breakfast, tuna steak with peas and mushrooms for lunch and Mediterranean crackers for dinner (well, it was really tea). No alcohol today and I have also watered the whole of the plants in the garden, so carrying a full watering can a dozen times will also have given me some strength exercise too. All in all I think I have made up for the calorie excess yesterday, so now I am not so disappointed.
It really is amazing how much a little disappointment in yourself can spur you in to greater things and now I am almost glad I went overboard yesterday just for the amount I have done today. However, I do have to apologise for not writing my blog yesterday. I was intending to do it but I fell alseep and by the time I woke up it was a little too late to write.
The last two days have been real polar opposites and that is sometimes how I am in myself. Sometimes I am the most on-the-ball person going and the next I am bored of it all and want to give up. Thankfully, the ratio is about 10:1 in terms of positivity, so I am able to maintain it. My wife gets bored quicker than I do so we are trying something new next week.
In order to maintain my wife's interest we are going to try high fat, low carb next week and see how it goes. The good thing is that I can make the high protein breakfast to keep her going as I am not in school but she is. This makes it easier as I do not have to rush to get ready myself, although I may try and get the breakfast ready as if I were in work also, just to see if I could keep this up if we were both back in school full time. This may make a good experiment to see what 'back to normal' looks like in terms of time and food preparation.
So that was my day today. Yesterday I was not guilty...but disappointed. Today I am just happy to have done so much and to have been so 'on it'. I will see whether yesterday has tipped the balance of the scales in my favour or not...but I will continue to carry on and remain positive and optimistic.
Until tomorrow, stay strong and stay safe.
Thanks for reading.
Sean.
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