Long days

Hello!

Sorry that it has been a while, last week I started doing long days 7:30am-8:30pm at placement so I could get all my required hours in and I haven't really had the time to do a lot else.

Since my last post..
Well I am on day 9 of the 30 day shred (few days missed due to lack of time/being too tired). I have decided that using two 500ml bottles of water just doesn't do it enough for the strength training, so I bought a set of weights this evening, 2 x 0.5kg, 2 x 1kg and 2 x 1.5kg. I will start off with using the 1kg and see if my little arms can take it. XD

I am drinking more soya milk and much less of cows milk. I went back to normal milk for day and felt ill, the other half says its because human adults are naturally lactose intolerant (he is a meat eater and milk drinker so no bias). I have tried soya a few years ago but couldn't get myself to like it but so far I've tried coconut milk, which was nice, alpro soya vanilla milk, which was amazing, now I am trying Morrisons own sweetened soya.

One of the down sides of losing weight is having to buy new clothes. Don't get me wrong I love buying new stuff but I don't have the money! Treated myself to a new sports bra today, even did the bounce test in the changing room.

I have good almost health food mad! Today (yeah today has been a shopping day) I bought some flaxseeds so I can sprinkle it on food and add it in cooking. It is full of good stuff such as omega-3, Iron, Protein, etc. Picked up some miso from the Chinese supermarket, it is used a lot in the recipes from the vegan books.

I think I may try either having at least one vegan meal a day or having at least 1 day a week vegan, to reduce the intake of saturated fat. I will have more of a think on that one and let you know.

Running again is at a bit of a stand still, but I will be going in the morning for a long-ish run. I am still going to the gym about once a week, this should increase when I get back to uni and have a little more free time (I say that now...) I might even get the chance to go swimming!

Weight loss wise...
I weigh myself far too much. Fact.
But I seem be hovering around the 9st 12lb - 10st mark.
I promise to not weigh myself until Monday morning. From then on Monday will be my weigh in day, more motivation to not overeat on a weekend like I usually do.
I do keep track of calories and I am aiming for around 1800 a day. Sometimes I go over. That's just life. :)

Hope you are all doing well and having a good time doing it! The scenic route of weight loss is a much better way!