Summary of last week:
1) Bodyweight good. Only 1 circuit each night, but still did 3/3 nights.
2) Yoga okay. Skipped 1/2 nights for no good reason (home late, felt crappy, vented on roommates until way too late at night).
3) Ankle exercises good. 6/7 nights.
Added goals:
4) Start exercise by 11 pm - failed every night except one (10:45).
5) Eat 1 healthy meal a day (greens and lean protein) - I've been doing an OK job of it I think but a miserable job tracking/paying attention to it. I think I got 4/5 or 5/5, usually either lunch or dinner.
One thing I did last week is buy a food scale, and I've been having way too much fun tracking what I'm eating. I didn't like tracking food last time I tried, but the weighing is kinda fun (heh...for now). I've only tracked a few days' worth and not particularly consistently, but I'm having fun seeing how many calories and protein (the only two things I'm paying attention to for now) are in my regular meals/snacks. I'm not going to make it a goal because then I'll stop doing it, but I'll keep tracking things as I feel like it, with the nebulous future goal of trimming down some of the higher calorie snacks that aren't "worth it" in terms of taste/nutrients/price/etc.
There's too much noise for the counts to really be accurate (I eat constantly, and irregularly, and sometimes eat very large amounts of some high-cal foods), but so far my daily average is 1850 calories and 62g protein. That seems low on calories based on what I tracked last time (somewhere in the 2000-3000 range, over a week) so I was either overestimating last time without the scale, or I've been eating less than usual lately (I'm guessing both). I might be forgetting to track the occasional snack, too. Lunch (including snacks throughout day) and dinner (including snacks throughout evening) are about even at ~600-800 cal each, with breakfast ~350 cal. So the calories seem at an OK level. Not sure about the protein - I can find a million sources for how much is a good amount, but the reliability is a bit lacking. Apparently "The Institute of Medicine recommends we get at least 10% and no more than 35% of calories from protein" and I'm at 13%, so I could go higher, I guess.
Oh and also um, I made a very very lovely spreadsheet, both for tracking meals and for comparing protein:calorie ratios and cost
rotein ratios.
It colour codes itself automatically based on arbitrarily-chosen low/medium/high ratios, and it is
lovely. It's really interesting to see the breakdown, and I've been surprised by a few of them. The best protein:calorie ratios by far are meat - surprisingly meat was also cheaper per g protein than beans. Dried beans would probably still win out, but I'm being realistic about my laziness here (although I'll do dried for big batches of food). Protein powder stuff at full price is about the same cost as meat, but cheaper if it's on sale. Bread/cereal/etc is about the same cost as meat per g protein, surprisingly, but many extra calories tagging along. Veggies are verrrry expensive by comparison. Fish/cheese/nuts are intermediate.