Last week I set myself three objectives for my diet and training.
The first was to reduce my daily calorie intake by cutting out barbells from my diet, the second was to increase my calorie expenditure by walking more on the weekend, and the third was to bring more structure to my diet on the weekend by cutting out my Friday night takeaway.
I was successful at achieving two out of my three goals.
Cutting out the protein bars and increasing my step count turned out to be easy however passing on the Chicken Shish turned out to be a little more difficult. I didn’t have anything else prepared for dinner. Which meant that after finishing work, driving straight to pick up my son and then taking him swimming there was little time for cooking, making it easy to defer back to my old habits.
However, I stayed within my calorie targets and went shopping first thing to make sure I was on track for the rest of the day, so I’m not too concerned about it.
When I stepped on the scale this morning, I weighed in at 88.4kg, 1.5kg down from where I was last week, so I’m happy with the progress I’ve made.
This week, I’ll be focusing on staying in a 20% calorie deficit.
My daily calorie and macronutrient targets are 2,394 Kcals, 239g of protein, 53g of fats and 239g of carbohydrates per day.
Tune in next week to find out how I get on!