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I do the housecleaning once a week. Am reasonably active. At the beginning of lockdown I restarted trainer road but was also building veg beds which involved digging and carting a few tons of topsoil, manure and compost. Since then the gardening has been much less physically challenging.
Do 45 minutes to 2 hours of yoga each day, and the 5 trainer road workouts each week.
A lot of my diet is vegetarian or vegan, eating meat once or twice a week. Possibly what is doing the damage is homemade bread, cakes and eating chocolates in the evening watching tv. The other harm was birthday week last week, which was spread over 3 days with my dad coming one day, friends over another and a huge steak meal another day.
What has been disappointing is as trainer road workouts have moved more into over under territory it appears I have been gaining more muscle bulk, which I don't want or need!
Really trying to work out what will be the best training plan to chose next. Is a build phase going to just encourage more muscle? Would rather focus on cardio.
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Housework should help. You're already quite physically active? Clearing woods and fields, burning peasants crops, shooting game, chopping trees, demanding tribute right? Pretty functional strength.
Yoga?
Keep the hiit work going on trainer road.
Endurance stuff from dog walks.
You're fairly active if you look at what you're doing in its entirety. What do you do when you finish work/training/yoga?
How much food and what kind of food are you ramming in your face?