Checking in after a fairly sensible weekend. After bloating up to 68.2kg on Friday before my period started, I am back down to a more reasonable 67.4kg this morning. It's only 0.4kg down from my 1st September starting weight, but it is at least a loss, which after the disaster area of the first few days I'm very grateful for!
Keeping a food diary (just a paper one) has been the game changer over the past couple of days. I'm roughly estimating calories, googling them as required, and it's really helping me realise how quickly I can get up to 1,500 or 2,000 calories without even trying.
I've also really made an effort to keep my step count up, and to get my runs in.
The less positive bit is that my gut health still isn't feeling great - eating late, exercising late, drinking more (only a couple of times a week, but it used to be a couple of times a month), sleeping less, are all really affecting it. I'm having daily kefir and trying to include some fermented veg in each meal, but really I know the biggest fix would be to avoid the 2-3x per week late evening meal.
Plan for this week is to keep the food diary up, keep well hydrated, keep exercising, focus on veg and protein and attempt to slowly reinstate 16:8 but be mindful of any binging-type behaviour it triggers.
Meal plan for today:
10am turmeric latte
11am yoghurt, fruit and nuts
1pm buddha bowl (avocado, quinoa, roast veg etc, plus probably eggs)
4pm ONE cookie!
6pm dinner - not sure what yet, but I am staying at my friend's again and my sole mission in life is to either eat early or not eat.
exercise: short yoga practice, 15k steps, plus helping the builders with lugging stuff around!