i'm super curious to know how i'm gon' feel here in another week or two. This diet thang has got me mighty motivated, and today i did another two workouts. Did chest, etc., at the irongym, then went to the climbgym for a "workout". The diet's interesting 'cos i'm stuffing myself on greens and meat, and i'm still always hungry. Energy-wise i haven't felt much different than before, except that i don't feel full all the time, and i've been sleeping way better. i've no doubt that the sleep is a function of laying off the bottle and the toxic crap. For one thing, i don't have a reason to stay up so late, seeing's i can't have a beer anyhow. i think the not feeling full bit is--well i definitely notice i don't just cram stuff down my maw all the time, and i think i've just never noticed how calorie-dense cheese is. As far as the not cramming extra stuff down goes, i definitely have no temptation to munch while i'm cooking or when i just get bored since everything i'm allowed to eat is either (initially) raw beast flesh, or else some breed of boring vegetable. Snacking requires cooking (or chewing on raw bell peppers), so i'm generally just fine going hungry. It's amazing how having no "sit-and-chill" calories available kills the desire to sit and chill. i can't really eat anything out of a bag, bottle, handy plastic container, etc. And it's been eye-opening how used i am to doing so. i start working on a meal, and i go through the fridge and i'm like Nope, can't have that, or that, or that...or those. And i've just stopped bothering opening the pantry. Nothin' in there i can eat. i'm so used to coming home ravenous from a workout or school or so, and opening a bag/container of whatever's easiest, and packing shit in 'til my duodenum is getting it whole. Gotta say there is no temptation whatsoever to come in and hit the Ziploc of raw ground turkey or mixed baby greens. i have been eating a lot of fruit. i make a point to do so only around workouts, and i hope i'm not shooting myself in the foot; but i can't do a three hour workout without some carbs.
Went in, as i mentioned, to the irongym. It'd been probably nearly three weeks since i'd done chest. i did dumbell bench instead of barbell. Been a good long while since i've done those. Those things really take more muscles to push. i like 'em. Worked up to 70s after a nice long warmup, and did a couple of sets of 6. It highlighted the fact that i have no triceps. Pretty much floundered around for the rest of my workout, as i'd no functioning triceps left. Ooo, and i saw an article in Muscle and Fitness on doing the perfect bench press. Interestingly, the article was on powerlifting form, and it was by some record lifting dude.
Then i went to the climbgym. Couldn't pull down v3s that i'd done before and didn't actually think i could fall off of. 'Fact i fell off of some v2s. So i finally called it a day, went and got my harness outta the car, hooked up to the auto-belays, and did all the 8s and 9s i could find--maybe 10 or 12 routes. That was torture...good workout. But dude: i fell off of a 5.9. Couldn't do it. Looking at the thing, i knew i could do it with pneumonia and cataracts; but no! i got shut down. i definitely have a way to go to get back into top shape, but i'm reeeeal motivated.
2 comments:
That sounds wickedly awesome. I really want to do this diet, but I'm gunna have to wait till I've got the quid to go to the store for propper shopping. And of course it will be a solo act, as my family pretty much thrives on crappy carbs and shite from a box.
Yeah. i dig. i do gotta say that the meat wasn't much (if any) more expensive than my regular diet. i just bought a ton all at once 'cuz we didn't have any meat in the house really. But per unit, tofu, tempeh and seitan are some expensive commodities. Time wise, it is tricky with the kids. Steph's been eating pretty much whatever i fix for me, but then i make something different for the urchins. But that'll hafta be her job once i start back to school. i already cook for at least myself three times/day. And there's a lot of stuff you can make that doesn't take a ton of time. i've been doing daily turkey meatball salads with balsamic and oil, and they're really quick. i could speed it up even more if i cooked a bunch of meatballs ahead of time.
Post a Comment