Work and Food

Today's Weight - 63.1

Tues food
You have used 1220 out of your net daily budget of 1350 calories and have 130 calories remaining. 29% of the calories are from fat, 25% from protein, 46% from carbs and 0% from alcohol.
Exercise - 35 mins running speedwork - approx 400cals

Wed's food
You have used 1273 out of your net daily budget of 1350 calories and have 77 calories remaining. 44% of the calories are from fat, 20% from protein, 36% from carbs and 0% from alcohol.
Exercise - Nil (day in Adelaide with 5 hrs travel)

For the last 6 weeks or so I have been doing a different job. We have a very large initiative on our hands - a 12 million dollar project, and a new centre to build over the next 5 years. I've been taken off line to scope it, ramp it up and get it started. So rather than being a busy director of 120 staff, I've been in a project role with no staff. And its been bliss. And its been quiet, and with much reduced meeting times and people demanding things of me. But the person who's been relieving for me had to take two weeks leave. So I'm back doing my old job for a while - and what an impact its had on my eating!

I'd forgotten that when I lost all my weight before, how much the job (which was new then) had helped. I simply dont have time to eat. I rush from one meeting to the next (actually if I was moving around I could probably grab something in between, but as they come to me, they just pile in one after another), and before I know it the mornings gone and my mid morning meals have been lost in the rush. Its budget time and I'm under extra pressure so food just doesn't rate. I know this is bad. I know that this is probably what is causing me weight maintenance problems now - that I didn't eat enough when I lost it the first time and its played havoc with my metabolism. And to make matters worse - I eat so few calories that everyday I've been able to afford my favourite treat: a Giant Twin icecream, at the end of the day. (Yes I know, its my choice) But I'm still under my calorie allowance. And this is certainly not clean eating!
I have had three very long days with evening meetings, breakfast meetings and long travel at each end, which as made being prepared very difficult as I've just fallen into bed each night and got up early to leave again. Hopefully the next few days will be a bit saner.

On a more positive front, whilst we are talking about food, I have finally managed to develop a liking for cottage cheese. I've only been trying on and off for the last 2 years, and on the weekend I tried Premium biscuits with cottage cheese and grapes - and loved them. They are my new favourite snack - despite my family ribbing me about the sliced grapes on top! I also made two recipes from Tosca's Clean Eating mag - which I loved- especially the Strawberry and spinach salad. So there area some wins on the food front as well as losses.

By the way - You'll notice that there's no weight training in my logs. I have finished Jillian Michaels Making the Cut program, and whilst trying to shake my weight plateau, I decided to give myself a week off of the weights and just focus on cardio. I'm now trying to decide what to do next - I could:

• Redo - Jillian's program - but instead of doing 1 set of all the circuits - do 2
• Have another go at the Ultra Fit program by Cindy ??? which has a lot of plyometrics - possibly more than Jillians. I tried this once before but found it too hard - maybe I'm better prepared for it now?
• Or do another 3 month block of straight weight training (ie low reps, high weights).

I wouldn't mind doing the last option, but I'm conscious of the fact that I'm in a weight loss challenge, so building muscle at the moment might not be my best choice - maybe I should keep more of a plyometric focus as it has the cardio benefits for fat loss?

What do you think?