Starting Over

I reckon the best thing for me to do since I've stuffed up so spectacularly is to take a deep breath and start over again.

I faced the scales this morning - not pretty! 
Glared at Jessica whilst making my morning coffee - sure the little witch is laughing at me!
Struggled through the day feeling pretty poo from over indulgence and too much alcohol this weekend - tut tut!
Decided to man up, ate well and re visited my workouts.

The diet today hasn't been too bad, although I didn't have fish and vegetables for dinner.  I feel horrid and a little poorly but sure its just the booze from the weekend.  Toast with hummus made me feel better, promise to do better tomorrow.  The diet there's not much to say, I did say at the beginning I take the piss, and the piss has been ripped.  Hence why I feel the size of a house and have no energy.  It is very much true, you are what you eat.

I did two cardio sessions today.  It wasn't my intention but a mix up meant his morning (after meal 1) I did 20 minutes sprint (10 mins at 15.5 30 second on/off) and stepper intervals (10 minutes at 30 seconds 18-20 high/  30 seconds 6-8 low).  And was almost sick.... I took to the treadmill again tonight but this time for a 30 minute powerwalk then did a little bit of shoulders

• Incline over head press 3 x 12
• Incline frontal raise superset with rear deltoids flys 3 x 12 of each

By this point I felt proper ill so called it a night.  I've learnt from past mistakes when I feel like that I should head home because guaranteed I injure myself.

A quick trip to Sainsburys and £60 lighter my fridge is now stocked with lots of good for you food, I've invested in a fancy pants sports multi vitamin (apparently there is a difference??) and looked online for some recipes to make my diet more interesting and the theory being less likely to go on a binge.  I found these aubergine recipes - spicy roast aubergines and aubergine and tomato salad - that I'm going to give a try this week. Looks yum!

Don't get me wrong I've had fun, but do feel better tonight with day one (part two) under my belt. 

I've also revisited my workouts, it dawned on me that I haven't changed my routine in over two months and need to see to this.  I have been working on, give or take a few shoulder sessions, a 4 day split, day 5 repeating 1.

Day 1:  Back and biceps
Day 2:  Chest and triceps
Day 3:  Legs
Day 4:  Rest

But with a bit of confidence that my shoulder injury isn't going to re-appear I've changed it to this 7 day split.

Day 1:  Deadlifts, hamstrings and gluts, calves
Day 2:  Arms & HIIT
Day 3:  Rest/light cardio
Day 4:  Chest and shoulders & HIIT
Day 5:  Targeted back (avoiding lats), quads, calves (small bit of gluts)
Day 6:  Rest
Day 7:  Cardio

For anyone that's into this sort of thing here's the rationale behind it...
Two legs days to balance out my proportions, feel like I'm getting a bit top heavy.  Arms in one day to maintain tone, no longer worried about muscle growth as responding well already from splitting them.  No more targeted work on lats or obliques as I don't want to get wider.  Abs every other day.

I've never done this kind of split before so we'll see how I get on, I'm interested at least so see if the shock produces results. 

Now if only I could get my mouth wired shut, or hire a food minder!!

Love

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