Last week I posted about the first planned phase of my lifestyle changes. How am I getting on?
Diet changes
Every day this week, I have had a breakfast as planned. It has always been the wholemeal toast. I haven’t been able to face a scrambled egg in the morning, yet.
Weekday lunches have been consciously planned too. They have usually been the same chicken fillet roll, but I haven’t been having them with optional extras, such as carb-heavy potato wedges or donuts. So that’s good.
I am proud of my Tuesday & Thursday evening meals. Tuesday didn’t go exactly as planned, because I had a podiatrist appointment early in the morning and Pilates in the evening, but on Thursday I made a simple pasta sauce (chopped tomatoes, onion, garlic, oregano, tomato puree, and olive oil) and we had pasta with it. I froze the excess sauce to use later.
I have bought an air fryer. I used it to cook this evening’s meal – marinated chicken breast. Like any new tool, it will take time to learn, but I will get there, and it seems to be easier than using the oven.
Exercise changes
This week, I swam twice (and had a noticeably improved performance both times) and I went to Pilates. The data from my Apple Watch looks good too.
| Day | Rings closed | Steps |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | Yes | 11,399 |
| Tuesday† | Yes | 16,333 |
| Wednesday‡ | Yes | 10,158 |
| Thursday | Yes | 11,986 |
| Friday‡ | Yes | 10,330 |
| Saturday | Yes | 13,473 |
| Sunday | Yes | 9,2091 |
† denotes a day I did Pilates
‡ denotes a day I went swimming
Summary and conclusion
So I kinda met the diet goals, and I definitely met the exercise goals, which is good.
Week 2
This week, I want to stay doing what I am doing with the exercise, and my diet plans are:
- Breakfast is two slices of whole toast and an optional scrambled egg.
- Lunch will be chicken fillet rolls, with an optional cafe lunch on a day when Michael isn’t on dialysis.
- Tuesday and Thursday dinners will be pasta and sauce again.
I also want to get better at using the air fryer.
- Sunday is the only day when I didn’t hit 10k steps, but I’m writing this at 19:25. Chances are, I’ll get another few hundred steps today before bed, but in any case I am well over 70k steps this week, so on average I’m doing more than 10k per day…. ↩︎