12/05/11 - The last day!

Sleep: 5 hrs - Looking forward to catching up on some Zzz's in Devon

Food:

Smoothie - Same as yesterday

Apple

Post workout shake with glutamine

6 oat cakes

Chicken salad with olives & walnuts

Natural yoghurt

Slow roasted shoulder of lamb with all the trimmings - Delicious, I gorged.

*** Diet ended at 27 days and 21 hours, but it doesn't have the same ring to it, so I'll leave the name as it is  : )

Glass of red wine - Parents were insistent and I felt that having had my final measurements and pics taken, I'd done my bit!

Ice cream with strawberries and blueberries - delicious!

Water: 3-4 litres

Energy Levels: Great, considering I hadn't slept much.  Dozed off on the train but was prodded in the arm by a ticket inspector after just 15 minutes - grrrrr!

Activities: Gym workout 45 minutes - Great session, last workout from the program that Rui had written for me.

Temptation? Well obviously the evening meal, oh and Travis turned up for our afternoon study session with some fancy organic chocolate!

Mood: Very good / borderline silly!

Notes: A good day, Martina took my final circumferences which I'll be posting momentarily.  Great to be back in Devon...

Weird...

Seems I lost a couple of days there.  Thought I'd updated the 10th and 11th already???


Well nothing major happened, I didn't cheat, ate pretty much the same things, didn't train and felt pretty good.  Oh, sleep was terrible, average of 5.5 hours all week.


It's Friday night, I'm back in Devon for the weekend with my family, heading off to training now and will post my final results and last days food tomorrow...


** Update **  And now the 10th and 11th are back?!?

11/05/11

Sleep: 5 hrs - ouch, no where near enough.  Late back from the cinema combined with a 05:45 alarm.  Zzzz

Food:

Smoothie - Yoghurt, banana, 2 eggs, scoop of whey protein & peanut butter - my favourite smoothie combo

Smoked salmon, 3 Scrambled eggs, beetroot, hazelnuts & cashews

3 oat cakes

Wagamama's Chicken Raisukaree - "tender marinated chicken breast stir-fried in a coconut and lime curry sauce with mangetout, peppers, red and spring onions, fresh ginger and garlic. served with steamed white rice and garnished with mixed sesame seeds, red chillies, coriander and lime" - HIghly recommended!

Trek Bar and Nakd Bar - I'd just had my final measurements done, was happy with the results (I'll post them on Friday with pic's) so thought I'd go crrrazy and eat two healthy bars!

Chicken Leg & Beetroot

Lamb Steak, sweet potato spring onion mash, spring greens and sweet heart cabbage. Orange.  

3 oat cakes

Water: 3 litres minimum

Energy Levels: Excellent considering the few hours of sleep I had last night

Activities: Biked 15.8 miles

Temptation? Nothing sticks out.

Mood: Very good

Notes: A good day, as I said, I had my final body fat percentage and weight taken, I also took my 'after' photo's as I'm back to Devon this weekend and wanted to get them taken in the same location.  I've been looking at a couple of grappling competitions that are coming up.  I might need to cut some weight before them to be at the top of a weight division as opposed to the bottom!!  Either that or my next 28 days will be spent trying to bulk up!!

10/05/11

Sleep: 6 hrs - Late sessions followed by early sessions (& agreeing to play football last night!) are messing my sleep patterns up!

Food:

Smoked salmon, 3 scrambled eggs, almonds & 1 orange - If it ain't broke, don't fix it...

Handful of cashews

Nak'd bar - dates, oats, raw raisins, peanuts, apple juice, cocoa, almonds and walnuts.

Cold roast chicken & beetroot

Apple

Mackerel salad

Pulled pork, beef brisket & fries

"Packed Tunch" bar - dates, raisins, apple, walnuts, puffed rice, apple juice & cinnamon

"Bounce - Fudgie Walnut" - Peanuts, rice bran, brown rice starch, grape juice, puffed rice, rice flour, carob powder, sesame seeds, raisins, vanilla, walnut & sea salt.

Water: 3 litres minimum

Energy Levels: Good

Activities: Biked 15.6 miles and walked a couple too.

Temptation? Carrot cake and a hot drink, £4.50 in the cafe at the cinema - I would have been all over that normally!

Mood: Good

Notes: I went to the cinema last night, so I bought two healthy bars earlier in the day so that I didn't feel left out whilst others were digging into their popcorn and sweets!  It worked.

09/05/11

Sleep: 6.5 hrs

Food:

Smoked salmon, 4 scrambled eggs, almonds and an apple - I got very excited at 5:45 scanning the fridge, when I remembered I'd bought smoked salmon.

Post workout protein shake with glutamine

Chicken salad with beetroot, walnuts & olives.  Apple - Isn't beetroot great?  I never ate it for years, this stems from school where it was on the menu everyday... "Beetroot George?"  No, I'll pass on the little purple cubes thanks...

3 oat cakes.  Handful of Almonds - Had a 'stodge' craving

Yoghurt, mashed banana, peanut butter & cinnamon - Read, wanted something sweet

Protein shake after football

Egg fried rice with king prawns, spring onions, mushrooms & sweetcorn then Beef Stew - I was pigging out after a long day, I'd trained, biked 20 miles and played an hour and a half of football, I just wanted to stuff my face and go to bed!

Water:  Well over 3 litres

Energy Levels: Must have been good to do all the following activities...

Activities: Biked 20 miles.  Gym workout - 45 mins.  Football 1.5hrs - Cream Crackered

Temptation?  Volume of food!

Mood: Good

Breaky

Lunch - If only all my salads were this tasty!

08/05/11

Sleep: 8 hrs - I was hoping for about 10, but woke up early, couldn't get back to sleep, so I got up

Food:

Quinoa & oat porridge with peanut butter, coconut milk & cinnamon - Nice mix with the quinoa and oats

1 chicken leg with salad, 1 pork steak, spring greens & broccoli

2 mackerel fillets, 3 oat cakes & salad

Yoghurt, peanut butter, cinnamon & natural vanilla essence.

Handful of cashews & almonds

Apple

2 slices of chicken

Beef stew, potatoes, cauliflower and spring greens.  1 orange

Water: 3 litres minimum

Energy Levels: Great.  Alert all day.

Activities: Nothing apart from a short stroll to the shops.  Needed a restful day.

Temptation? Nothing

Mood: In my own world in the morning, fine in the afternoon.

Notes: No majors today, all pretty good.

07/05/11

Sleep: 7 hrs

Food:

Smoothie - Yoghurt, 2 eggs, winter fruits, 1 orange & cinnamon

Post workout protein shake with glutamine

2 pork steaks, broccoli, 6 oat cakes, avocado & olives - I was heading out & wanted something to keep me going

Monkey Nuts

Roast Chicken, baked sweet potato & salad

Yoghurt, peanut butter & cinnamon

Water: 2-3 litres

Energy Levels: Very tired late afternoon

Activities: Biked 7 miles.  Gym workout 45mins.

Temptation? I went to Twickenham to watch my friend play in the Army Vs Navy rugby match, I suppose a guinness would have been nice.

Mood: Ok

Notes: Wiped out in the evening, went to bed at 20:45 on a Saturday night (rock'n'roll), unfortunately I woke up at 05:00 this morning and couldn't get back to sleep, oh well I've got three 05:45 starts this week, so they shouldn't be such a shock now!