Post-illness 4.5 lbs Heavier Recovery Day One - Eating sensibly and upping the movement

Over the last two weeks, some prior to the illness, and probably most during the illness, I had been eating far too many unhealthy foods, resulting in my weight going up by 4.5 lbs.
It could well be that the real gain is less but that is the figure when I stepped on the scales last night, so in the same way I accepted the surprisingly lower than expected weight two weeks ago, I will also accept the higher than expected weight last night.
I do intend to weigh every day between now and the Thursday before the race, which will remove some of these variations.

So with three weeks and two days to go, I need to rebuild my fitness and hopefully remove some the weight recently gained - the former is more important than the latter but they should go hand in hand.
Today's calories were;
373 calories for breakfast (muesli, milk, and a banana),
324 calories for lunch (Lunchbox full of salad with a very small amount of sundried tomatoes in oil, artichokes in oil, olives, gherkins and some stale bread)
710 calories for dinner (Chicken and Chorizo with long-grain rice)
238 calories for snacks (Peach, Apple, and a small cappuccino)
Total is 1645 calories.  I allow for 1840 calories, plus I earned 142 calories from the 7000 steps I did today - net deficit is 337 calories for the day.

Compared to the average steps of just 3000 in the last few days, today's 7000 steps is a good step in the right direction.  Tomorrow should be a lot higher, especially if I go for a short run in the morning.
Looking at my garmin connect data, I have gone from average steps of 100k per week down to 35k this week - no wonder the weight piled on with a drop like that combined with no doubt excess eating in the same time period.

A good first day - lets hope for three more weeks of the same.

The sub 60 10k, hungry, winning the 100k Steps Garmin Challenge, and Podcast

Today was a medium effort 6 miler so following last week's speedy 5 miler I thought I should have a crack at getting under 60 minutes for an off-road 10k.

The route was tougher in terms of terrain than last week, an out and back rather than being circular, but my downfall was my shoe laces coming undone twice, despite them being tight - I suspect they got caught in the undergrowth, and as a result I did it in 1hr and 33 seconds - close but no cigar.

There will be other weeks to have another crack at it.

Every week, as I've signed up for it, I am entered with up to 13 other signed up Garmin users to achieve a weekly steps target - beat it, and you go up to a higher target group but in addition one of the fourteen will finish top of the leaderboard.

I am at the 100k steps per week, and this week I finished first in my group with a total of 117k, which is now my second win, the being at a lower target.

There are no prizes other than badges but it's another hook to keep me going.

Yesterday, I was not that hungry and came in 500 calories under target - today, particularly mid afternoon, I was permanently hungry!  As I've stated before, I will not starve myself, so 200 calories over but not an issue given yesterday's gap.

If you ever read the Brownlee's book, Swim Bike Run, they mention that when training they always hungry, so it must be the extra effort this morning.

The link below is to an extract from a podcast (Marathon Talk) where Vassos from Chris Evans Breakfast Show is interviewed about doing the Race to the Stones this year, which might be of interest.

https://www.facebook.com/RaceToTheStones/videos/vb.272293052894094/670481873075208/?type=2&theater