Happy Christmas Eve everyone!! Love and cuddles and happiness to you all (I'm sooo not posting tomorrow, so this is all your Christmas love now. Use it wisely!)
I'm actually thinking of disappearing after this week while I'm on holidays and starting a new diary when I get back... Been through a lot on here this year and honestly Nutella is not a problem anymore lol. Also I'm gearing up to change my diet a bit further- in about 3 weeks I'm allowed to eat cheese and butter again (oh, you better believe I'm counting down to eating that crumbly heavenly goodness!) and I don't plan to ever eat grains again. Even though I may be allowed to add rice back in way down the track I don't see/ feel the need, I haven't missed it at all. Also I've spent the last 4 days reading up on metabolism, hormones, neurotransmitters (I got through a book a day, go me!) and I'm going to change my macros to reflect what I believe will work best- going to break my diet down to 60% fat, 30% protein and 10% carb. Actually the last fortnight it's almost been around there anyway as my grain-free bread substitutes are pretty much carbless anyway, so won't be changing my macros much at all... it's more that I will be specifically aiming for it rather than just eating whatever and ending up there. If/when I start the new diary I'll outline the guidelines I'm sticking to in more detail! Going to be upping my cals every day too, I think I worked out it'll be between 1600-1900 every day instead.
Also going to mix up my exercise when I get back, got that all planned out too. Not that I'll be doing much different from now, I'll be doing my 5 day split still, then separately 2 days a week I'll add in 10 mins of HIIT boxing at a separate time from other exercise. Also on swimming + strength days I'll swim straight after strength instead of eating and resting in between, and on just ordinary swimming days I'll swim first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. Kind of trying to shock my body a little, I'll see how I go for a month.
So tomorrow is Christmas, I'll give you my food plan. I can say that what I write down is probably what it will be- I'm having to make all my food separate from everyone else this year so I can't just randomly graze on everything in sight with the boys. Blessing in disguise maybe?? I might have to up cals more too as I'll be on my feet a lot tomorrow cooking for them AND me!
If you're wondering what's on THEIR menu- I'm making them choc chip pancakes with maple syrup for breakfast, then they will spend the day grazing on vintage cheddar *drool*, ritz crackers, homemade rum balls, fruit mince pies, chocolate and chips that their stockings are stuffed with, cherries... And for dinner, I'm slow cooking a marinated beef roast (I can't eat it, there's gluten in the marinade! Fuck you allergies!!) and roasting chicken breasts, pumpkin, potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, and dessert is chocolate self-saucing pudding and custard. And I'm using the recipe I always used to make for Ash and myself, so I know I'll be jealous of that too. Boo! Oh, and Ash is roasting what I think is a pork belly... I didn't see it properly, it just appeared in the fridge. I ain't touching it, just the smell of pork makes me bleaugh. I'm going to cook the chicken separately in the morning just so it's not in the oven at the same time as the pork!
Food plan for tomorrow
B- Huge coconut flour pancake stack (using 3 eggs, 1/4 cup coconut flour, 1 tsp xylitol, 1/4 cup almond milk. Haven't tried this, that's just what I thought sounded good! Fingers crossed!!)
S- Protein shake (after exercise) and cherries
L- Homemade ice-cream with 1 cup almond milk, 2 coconut milk ice cubes, vanilla, served with blackberries (SO EXCITED!)
S- Not sure, think we would have started drinking by now. I'm sticking to 2 ciders! If I don't get through all my pancakes in the morning I'll finish what's left over now.
D- Roast chicken breast, broccoli, cauliflower
Exercise- The boys eat breakfast SUPER late (like 11am) so I'm going to get up and swim for 30mins as soon as I wake up, then make and eat my pancakes, then do my workout (easy one tomorrow, shoulders!) then drink the shake. I'm guessing they'll be out of bed by then and I'll be making them breakfast!
Total calories: 1514
Total deficit: 945
Total deficit for the week: 452