Healthy New You: Your Change For Life #2

Morning everyone!
I'm going to have scrambled egg on toast for brekkie

Ah man, got major breakfast egg jealousy now! Ah well, my porridge was pretty damn good too

Am still aching like a mofo from Body Pump on Monday - pain in the quads went yesterday, but my triceps are still killing me! Not sure what kind of exercise would be best today, don't have that much time as I've got loads of work to do...might make it to the gym later, or possibly just try and do some cycling at home.

Also, have decided my diet has been slipping a bit recently, nothing too awful but have got into the habit of having unnecessary chocolate "treats", so am trying to avoid anything but just plain dark chocolate at the moment.

That said, was thinking of having at go at making these when I have a minute:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/469409-protein-cocolate-chip-cookies-d

They look so good

Can anyone recommend some cheap but accurate scales? My mum offered me some for free but they're not great and I won't be going home for a while so I can't collect them. :/

I've got these - can't comment on how accurate they are, but they're reliable (weigh the same each time you step on). I got them half price from somewhere, so they're probably on sale if you look around!

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I had an interview this morning that didn't really go very well, so I was a bit stressed out, which led to a massive craving to binge...I was so so so tempted to go back via Sainsburys and buy two tubes of Pringles and a pack of Jaffa Cakes, but I managed to resist...hope my resistance can last!

Hmm I think that is the hard part except going from losing weight to trying to gain weight/muscle is totally opposite and my body doesn't seem to like it lol. It feels like torture to me. Myfitnesspal states I need 1890 calories to gain 0.5 per week. I don't go to the gym, I have the equipment at home. I had around 2200 today because of cardio but other than cardio days 1890 sounds right for a slow bulk as I know maintenance for me is around 1700. And I was so wrong about not feeling anything. My arms have a nice ache, my legs too. My back aches a little from the deadlifts so I'm not sure whether I should get a belt to lower the impact. I might start recording my lifts on here so my improvements if any over the coming weeks can be seen. I'm trying to have about 180g plus protein on strength days and 200g plus on cardio days as more calories to use. I'm guessing that's enough anyway but gonna try and increase the protein and reduce my carbs as although I'm not having processed food, I feel like I'm missing something. Need to add more veg to my current diet too.

Ahhh this week I've lost 3lbs!! I'm absolutely over the moon, it's the biggest loss I've had in absolutely ages!

God I just wanna eat everything. Was so hungry so had a bowl of salad (lettuce, cucumber and tomato with a slice of ham)..still hungry...so had some pineapple and melon...still hungry...bowl of rice krispies...still hungry...and then stupidly ate a victoria slice knowing full well it wasn't gonna solve the problem. Gaaahhh i just wanna eat but i've already had 1500kcals today already and no exercise. I get that i'm gonna have good and bad days but every bloody day is a bad day these days...