Began the day with NF Workout 1A… while I warmed up so was my computer. Really felt the burn after neglecting my workout goals for a few days.
Walked the 8km tram line to the city making my steps for the day 12,638 with 103 active minutes.
According to the FitBit App I entered 13 min cardio and 3 min peak, the rest was fat burn.
Food Log
Alpen for breakfast.
Was so hungry by 11am I tipped my dinner portion of my Jambalaya into my lunch portion and ate the whole thing.
By 1.30pm I was hungry again and ended up cheating. 10 nugget meal with a coffee oops.
At 8pm I ate a cookie.
Suffice to say #foodfail
Sleep Log
Went to sleep as advised by my phone at 10pm. Unfortunately by dawn my blankets had accepted me as one of their own and I didn’t wander out my bedroom door until 8.30am. Total sleep time a little over eight hours.
#fail. I didn’t leave the house and I didn’t do a workout. The only movement seen from this sloth was to go downstairs for food.
Food Log
Tea and Alpen for breakfast. Breakfast Burger and Latte from Cheshire Cafe. Dinner, at 8pm I haven’t eaten yet, although I am starting to get hungry. I might go seek out the chicken and sweet potato sitting in the fridge.
Sleep Log
Woke up somewhere around 7.30am today and got up relatively straight away. It was a cold morning so tea and breakfast was a high priority. Went ice skating late on Saturday so didn’t watch television when I returned, it was straight to Bedfordshire albeit way after my “bed time”.
Masters Log
Spent dawn to dusk reading about qualitative content analysis. Need to gather my thoughts and draft another version of the Methodology and Methods section. Also need to put together slides for presentation and complete data analysis #mondaygoals.
This is the part where I hold myself accountable in all areas I am tracking as part of my NF Journey. I’ve also added in another section today, called ‘Masters’. I am currently in my final semester, final project and so far behind it’s not funny. Therefore, I need to hold myself accountable and will note every day what I have achieved, and then feel guilty if I have nothing to write about. So here goes…
Food
Winter is the time for comfort, and the source of that comfort for me is food. Unfortunately, I wasn’t on my best form today. Left over Nachos for breakfast, a Youfoodz meal for lunch, and Macca’s for dinner. I justify the Macca’s because I got the grilled chicken without the sauce. It wasn’t a great idea, because it tasted bad. The coffee helped though. Tomorrow, I have no excuse. I need to keep to my schedule.
Active
Today’s fitness activity was at Homer Simpson. I forfeited my morning work out because I was too cold to get out of bed, and when I was ready to go for my walk, it was pouring down with rain. It was a day of excuses. Most of activity was walking up and down the stairs between washing loads.
At 7.50pm all might be saved. Ice skating will be the extent of today’s exercise.
Sleep
Yesterday I was up before the alarm and asleep before the alarm. I didn’t hit snooze but did engage in a lot of unapproved television watching. They added Nashville onto Stan, and I’ve always been hooked. It’s an addiction, one episode isn’t enough! I didn’t fall asleep with tv on though. I managed the conscious albeit very hard decision of when to shut it down.
Masters
I started to make a plan of how I am going to achieve this and I have all the readings open, ready to be conquered tomorrow. By night fall I will be a master of content analysis.
It’s nacho your problem, but that’s what I had for dinner. Sometimes you just crave the crispy crisps and hot melted cheese amongst the jalepeno’s and salsa. I feel like it was deserved having had coffee for breakfast and Boost juice for lunch.
Sleep Log
Sleep = 7 hours
This morning I woke up by myself at 4.30am and then snoozed until the alarm went off at 4.50am. It was at that point I shut off the alarm, and reset for 5.20am. Blissfully sleeping through my workout time. I’d spent most of the evening watching television but had pulled the lid down when my iPhone app reminded me it was time to sleep. I’m pretty sure I was out like a light.
This was aided by installing f.lux on my Macbook. It’s a software program that adjusts the lighting of the screen according to the location and time of day. I’ve also started using the BedTime App on my iPhone, this way I can ensure I get enough sleep by adjusting my ‘bed time’ according to when I need to wake up. For example, tomorrow is the weekend and beginning of four weeks annual leave, so I have adjusted my wake up time to 7.30am.
Activity Log
As mentioned before I skipped the morning work out. But made up for it in the walk to work. I’m thinking I might need to reevaluate where I disembark the tram as the morning stroll along Collins is getting easier each day. Step count is at 8,254 today.
Tomorrow Goals
In addition to the plethora of work I have to do for my thesis, I intend to complete a full work out and go for a walk up to the lake and back.
Between 5am and 5.20am I did Body Workout 1A: Assisted Body Weight Squat, Elevated Push Up, Door Bodyweight Row and Farmers Walk with 6kg weight. Today I achieved two sets but was pushed for time.
Despite the rain and missed tram, I managed to get to Parliament by 7am which meant I could walk the line along Collins Street. There’s nothing more satisfying than reaching half the daily step goal before I reached work. Unfortunately, I left work with the threat of storms so trammed all the way home. Step goal for the day not quite met.
Food Log
Breakfast was at 7.30am. Vanilla Chia Pod and Latte.
Lunch was at 12pm. Weekend Warrior.
Dinner was 7pm. YouFoodz MacDaddy.
Calorie count met but, it’s 8pm and OMG I’m hungry today.
Sleep Log
Last night I turned on the BedTime App of my iPhone. I was awoken at 4.50am. After turning off the alarm I closed my eyes for a few minutes and listened to the rain outside. By 4.55am I turned to the MacBook sleeping next to me and began writing this. So no official snoozing. I was dreaming that I was searching for my keys on my front porch, while an old friend was watching television down on the street… random.
I have a terrible television habit. From work, I came home face planted on the bed. Literally out like a light. When woke up at 7pm, on went Stan, and played in the background until pulled the MacBook lid down around 9.30pm. I think I lay in the dark quiet for about 10min before I was out like a light again. The next sound I remember was that of my alarm.
Liquid calories. My new nemesis. Today I tried to forgo my morning coffee and I’m been in a state of weary loss. It truly felt like the longest day.
I took a rest day from the strength training work outs and enjoyed the extra 30 minutes sleep. However, it made the climb up the hill to the tram quite tiresome. I was a little stiff and it was unseasonably warm.
13,365 steps. Smashed those goals today. It all began this morning when I enjoyed my stroll to the highway under an imminent sunrise, couldn’t help but notice the crescent moon lighting my way. I was tramming early today so disembarked at one end of the city and then walked the line of Collins Street to work. This afternoon I followed my footsteps back from the Docklands then up to Melbourne Central. As the sun set across the university campus I climbed the stairs and hit the 10,000 step marking, meaning my session started on a very happy note.
Food goals kinda somewhat met. Breakfast was a latte. Morning Tea was a Chia Pod. Lunch was a Weekend Warrior and Dinner was Nandos. The latter would have tipped the scale on the calorie count. Although, I feel it was earned in the step count and morning work out.
Nerd Academy
Using a BMR Calculator my Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) = 1495.3. To maintain weight at current activity level, calories should be 1,800, to lose weight around 1,500 and to lose weight fast 1,100.
In the spirit of not drinking calories, tomorrow I will not buy coffee but will drink water. Just writing that sounds crazy to me.
Edited version of a speech made by Arya Stark in GOT.
Arya is a bad ass! Anyone who watches Game of Thrones knows this. From a young age this little warrior stuck her finger up at the social expectations, instead turned and faced the trials and troubles of the world, with one attitude: Not today!
This image yoinked from Elle, completely encapsulates the warrior princess that is Arya. Having just watched the latest episode I am so proud of her whilst being completely and utterly traumatised. She is a modern day hero for all young females.
So tomorrow, when I don’t want to wake up and do my work out, I will ask myself WWASD?
To the Daily Log
It was an active Monday. I managed to crawl from the bed around 5am and get one set of strength training in, with my new weight. I felt the burn. Having left the house early, I power walked to the highway, snoozed 20min on the tram, before disembarking and powering my along Collins Street. The FitBit is still out of action and my iPhone doesn’t want to play, but I estimate it to be about 5,000 steps. My post work walk was cancelled due to obvious reasons. If not obvious, look above.
Since 11am AEST (when it aired in the U.S.) I have avoided social media like the plague. It made for a very long commute home. On the plus side, my Apple TV / AirPlay decided to work today, so we got the wide screen experience.
The stress, anxiety and heart wrenching anticipation called for Macca’s. So I indulged in a burger… and justified to myself, it was okay because it was grilled. I was very hungry also. Breakfast had been the Chia Pod, and Lunch a Weekend Warrior from Boost. So despite being naughty I was well within the calorie targets, just not on par with the Paleo lifestyle.
Tomorrow Goals
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Tomorrow will be the longest day, work then uni, then home to study. Food goals remain the same, chia pod for breakfast, boost juice for lunch and dinner will be a cheeky Nandos or super food salad from the salad bar if it is still open when I leave the office. Steps goals will be achieved as I’ll be walking from SouthWest corner of the CBD to the NorthEast corner.
#FeelGoodCharlie 