Day 21 and 22: Lower calorie chocolate and other stuff. My Actifit Report Card: February 5 2023

** Daily to do List **

My checklist is the same as always:

Morning dog walk and evening

• complete both days

Morning and evening Coin Hunt walk

• completed today but not yesterday

Read Bible and Pray

• done and done

Stretches, Push ups, and Sit-ups

• done both days. One set yesterday and two sets today.

** Thoughts for the past two days **

First I don't know why the app won't let me post for yesterday. Probably because I was having trouble yesterday and it got confused on what got posted and what didn't.

However, yesterday I paid the price for eating a burger and fries while celebrating with my son's. Totally worth it but still, it sucks to see the scale going up.

Today I was hoping that the scale would go back to normal. It did go down a little but still 79.4kg so up by .4kg from my pre celebration weight.

Hence the title "Two steps forward and one step back". Sometimes life throws little diet curve balls at you. When that happens just keep on following the plan and wait for things to go down over time.

Now today started out a little later than usual because, horray! It was Sunday and I was going to sleep in. Unfortunately my doggo had different ideas and had me up at 7am to go for a walk.

That him waiting for me to get him to go out after scratching the door while I tried to ignore him :(

Overall it wasn't a bad morning though. Not raining, not too hot or too cold.

and I thought the sun looked pretty in the sky so I took a picture.

After dog walk I came back and it was driving instructor time again. This time not for my son but my older son's room-mate. Her name is Thu and while she has made great progress from when we first started she is still very much learning.

One hour down giving driving lesson. Then it was time to return home and get on with the day which included:

• Getting my coin hunt done.
• Vacuuming floors
• Washing Dishes
• Doing laundry
• Making dog treats
• Making low calorie chocolate
• Making Hummus and Soy Milk

Then it was off for another Coin Hunt round and off for another walk with the dog.

It was pretty late at that time :

After all that it was time to come home and relax to some TV time :) Watched the first episode of "The last of us" which I'm quite enjoying.

** Addendum ** </center)>

** Dog walk and Coin Hunt route **

Now I keep mentioning that I walk the dog. If you are wondering about the route and how far here it is

This is the route :

I also mention that I do a coin hunt walk. That one is much longer and I collect bitcoin and ethereum along the way (more on that another time). Here is that walk :

** 2. I mentioned lower calorie chocolate **

Now I love chocolate but it isn't exactly nutrient packed. I also make soy milk which leaves me with Okara which is high in fiber and protein with few calories and no taste. Put those two things together and you get an Okara chocolate Bar.

How does it work? Really very simple:

1. Melt some shortening in a crock pot

1. Add some chocolate balls (I used cheap chocolate left over from Christmas)

1. Give it some time to melt.

The balls won't lose their shape but they will get soft and mushy.

1. I use some chopsticks to mix it all around and get liquid chocolate

1. Get some Okara and add it to the chocolate

1. Pour it out and refridgerate until it cools. When I pulled it out it looked like this. One big chocolate slab

Now I but that into squares and have a home made chocolate bar. The Okara adds bulk and protein but really no taste. So I have a less fattening, higher protein chocolate bar.

**3. My stretching routine **

I also mention that I am doing stretches daily (or at least am trying to. If you are curious about what stretches I'm doing here is the list.

• Lumbar Rotation Stretch
• Hamstring stretch
• Piriformis stretch
• Tall Kneeling Hip Flexor stretch
• Kneeling Hamstrng stretch
• Seated sping rotation
• Child's pose stretch
• Upper back extension
• Upper Trapezoid stretch

Now I'm sure that there are much better stretch routines, but I had to start somewhere so that is where I started.

and if you actually made it this far down on the post.

You may notice that I'm trying to add a little "style" to the post.

a little HTML so I can center, bold, change size, and add bullets. I'm still working on a page break jpg and making a table but this is very much a work in progress.

I figure since I'm writing on a phone from the Actifit app I can be forgiven if there is a learning curve :)

Thanks for reading

Until tomorrow :)

This report was published via Actifit app (Android | iOS). Check out the original version here on actifit.io

House Chores, Stretching, Walking

Height 178.1 cm		Weight 79.4 kg		Body Fat 29.3 %
Waist 103.5 cm		Thighs 58 cm		Chest 104 cm