Tuesday 2nd October

Sleep = 5.5 hours
Another poor night. Working until midnight and up at 6am. Got an unbroken 5.5 hours and another black mark!

Food
6.20am Protein shake, apple and 50g nuts
9.30am 2 Egg muffins (why do i feel like I'm cheating when i eat these?), 400ml FF Milk
11.00am Mixed leaf salad with cherry tomatoes, 2 pork loins marinaded in a lemon, thyme and olive oil and home made vinaigrette
13.00 50g mixed nuts and currants
15.00 3 Roasted sausages (97% pork) and 1 onion with 200g boiled mixed veg with an cream, almond and cheese sauce.
17.00 Managed to get in a 15 minute warm up but no training.
19.00 Protein shake and banana
21.00 2 Sausages, 1 roast onion. (a good day of food until this evening)

F&V = 6 (Black Mark!)
Black Marks = 2 (sleep and veg)
Total BM = 3

Usually catch up with emails on an evening but putting sleep as priority so in bed before 10pm.

Now I keep track of everything and write stuff down I'm starting to realise that work dictates pretty much everything i do! Need to put time aside in my calendar for training. Routine is impossible due to the random hours I'm working each day but definitely need to make it a priority. Another day of no training.

Wednesday 3rd October

Sleep = 8 hours
Slept from 10 right through until 6am. And woke up a couple of minutes before my alarm - always feel more awake when i wake up without an alarm.

Food
6am 2 Egg muffins, 50g nuts
10.30am 3 egg omelette cooked in butter with 100g ham, 50g cheese, 100g tomatoes. 400ml FF milk.
11.30 50g nuts and currants
12.30 Jacket potato with 3 rashers bacon, 1 roasted onion and 100g tomatoes.
14.00 Had marinated 2 pork loins in chilli, paprika and lemon. Cooked it ready to take to work but smelt a bit funny. Didn't taste right. Checked packet and had use by date of 1st October (only bought them on the 30th September!). Hate throwing food out and many times before I've gone ahead and eaten the meat but it never ends well! Chucked it in the bin and shed a little tear.
17.00 Managed to get in half a training session during open gym:

3 x 5 Box squats @ 60kg (first time squatting with a barbell on my back since injury. Felt a little awkward racking the bar but the squats were ok)
Build up to AMRAP of deadlifts at 120kg = 10.
Banana

20.30 400ml milk. Apple
21.30 Cottage pie (beef mince, onions, tomatoes, herbs and spices. Half and half mashed potato and sweet potato), 200g mixed veg.

F&V = 6
Black Marks = 1
Total BM =4

Will try and jazz future posts up with pictures and better layout but haven't had chance to have a good play around with all that blogger has to offer just yet.