2025-09-01
• weeknotes • 572 words
My weeknotes for the week 2025-08-26 to 2025-08-31.
I had work of course, and also went for a ~35 minutes swim, plus the cycle there and back.
I went to another singles mixer - I do enjoy going to these. I felt fairly socially capable this time around, almost like my social skills are growing. That's good. I got a girl's number not for dating but because she runs a creative writing get-together, which might be fun to attend (we'll see...)
I was tired, tired tired. I of course got in late from the dating event (home at 01:30 in the morning) and so got about three hours sleep. I only had about four hours sleep on Mon and Tues too, so I was shattered on the Thursday. I slept on the train, slept on the train back, and made dinner and that was it.
I ate a massive breakfast and felt oddly satiated and wearied. In the evening, I saw my friend online and we played For The King.
I skipped out on a swim, went to the cafe for breakfast (reading The Gift and studying my insurance law course). I also wrote some prose, though it wasn't very good.
I had my violin lesson (which I had not practised for!) and we did some work on the first few fingers. It's coming along, slowly, and I am playing simple tunes albeit with great difficulty. It's only been a month and a bit. My ability to read music is lacking, which is something I need to work on for mandolin as well.
I went for a swim in the morning, bought bulbs for spring online (daffodils, hyacinths, etc. - also an eremurus I am looking forward to!), and cycled up to get eggs. However, there were not any - I was possibly too late.
I weighed 11st 6lb on this day, which seems like I have lose a little bit of weight! But it's very variable.
My screentime this week was 1d 12h, or 21% of my week. That's... really bad. It equates to 5h 13m per day.
As usual, Brave browser was most of this (1d 4h).
It also means my screentime is getting worse day on day. I keep on saying I need to fix this, but clearly I don't...
My current weight is around 11 st 8 lb. My approximate maintenance calories would be 2294 kcal per day. My weight on the scales is not going down, but that could be because I have started having creatine again and so there is extra water weight (or, I could just not be losing weight - it's too early to tell).
My total calories for the week were 13598 kcal (1942 kcal daily average). This is a deficit of 351 kcal per day, resulting in likely weight loss of 0.70 lbs based on maintenance calories.
My average daily protein intake was 111g, forming 22.9% of my calories, and being 0.69g of protein per pound.
In terms of exercise, I went to the gym on Friday, and went swimming on Mon, Tues, and Sun. Going forward I think I want to go to the gym twice weekly (Mon and Fri morning) and swim the rest of the time (of course, other hobbies permitting).
I am dropping this section from this week. I don't think it's very helpful.