2025-09-15
• weeknotes • 934 words
My weeknotes for the week 2025-09-08 to 2025-09-14.
I went to the allotment in the evening. It doesn't look very impressive, but it is not in as dire a shape as I would have thought given I haven't been in a few weeks. Got some tomatoes out of it at least.
I had a bar of chocolate at lunch, and also sampled some falafels (they were not very nice) so my calories were a bit high. The chocolate gave me inflammation as sugar is wont to.
I chatted to my mother, and then went for a swim in the evening.
I was surprisingly happy on this Thursday! Very giggly for some reason.
I granted myself a falafel wrap at lunch for a bit of happiness (but again: many calories) and sat and read.
I went to the gym in the morning and ... possibly saw my friend in the evening though I can't remember!
We had the Chicken Rush event in London. It was quite good - the actual event was so-so and I was a bit inhibited (I don't do well in these kind of team things) but the mingling after was very fun. I chatted to one girl who was not my type but absolutely lovely, and a man who was in a band (he told me the band - I still need to listen to the music) and we swapped numbers to possibly jam or something. I want to meet more musical people!
We went out clubbing after - me, the very lovely girl, and one other guy. I thought he was just a bit much at first, but towards the end of the night I had to be very cautious with him around her, as he had got feelings for her and didn't seem to understand consent (she was very drunk and not confident around him, but was telling me she didn't enjoy what he was doing) so I had to mediate and stop anything bad happening. At the end I had to essentially physically stop him getting in the taxi home with her.
I got back at some eight in the morning after wandering around London for the rest of the night, slept for four hours, but generally did not do much, though I did go to a cafe to grab some tea and cake (again, calories...). In the evening I did some more mandolin work, trying to learn music reading.
This week had a total screentime of 26h, which is an improvement on last week that saw 35h. I still need to try get it even lower, though.
Across the week I walked 71825 steps according to the step tracker. That is a daily average of 10,260 and apparently amounts to 36 km, and 2228 kcal burnt. I doubt the figures are that accurate, but still. It's not too bad!
Sunday really brought up my average, as I walked about London during the night so in total had 22,689 steps on that day.
It's also worth pointing out that the step tracker seems to count cycling as steps too, so some of those steps were actually ridden by bike. It doesn't count it as so much though, so probably in terms of calories equivalents it works out. Not sure.
I have still been reading The Gift. At this point the cover has fallen off, so I am using it as a bookmark. By the end of the week I am now at page 228, so I have read 102 pages. The font is very small and Nabokov's writing requires focus to read, so that's decent progress I suppose.
I did not study once during the week.
I made no progress whatsoever with this - still 53 pages in.
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I practised a little bit, and finished annotating Fugues just for fun with the notes and finger positions. I'm trying to gradually improve my music reading.
I played a bit of Losing my Religion but not a great deal. I will be performing it (albeit privately!) next week! Also played some Norwegian Wood with my mother, again to practise ahead of next week.
I have not practised violin at all this week.
I went to the gym twice as usual. As for swimming, I only went once this week.
(The figures here are going to be a bit inaccurate as a lot of it was guesswork - still should be a good rough estimate.)
My current weight is around xx st xx lb. My approximate maintenance calories would be 2282 kcal per day.
My total calories for the week were 15,026 kcal (2,146 kcal daily average). This is a deficit of 135 kcal daily, resulting in likely weight loss of 0.27 lbs based on maintenance calories.
My average daily protein intake was 77 g, which amounts to 0.48 g per lb of body weight, and roughly 0.64 g per lb based on estimated lean mass.
So, calories were rather high and protein low. This is a result of two bad days, firstly, the Tuesday where I had a full bar of chocolate (500 kcal of essentially sugar), which in turn actually gave me inflammation and a coldsore. The Thursday I also had a decent bit of sugar, and the Saturday saw probably some 1500 kcal of alcohol. This is to be expected, but of course does mean that I am not going to be losing my weight this week.
I have stagnated a bit in terms of weight though.