[tkinsley]

Today:

Eats ON
Lifting OFF
Cardio ON:

Intervals on the treadmill, 30 mins total--ran only 2 miles, because I'm on day 6 of my modified velocity diet and just have too little in the tank to run for more than about 20 minutes right now.

Modified how, you ask? Well, every 4th day I eat solid food for 3 of my meals. Days 1-3 consist of shakes and one solid meal (which I save for dinner time). Interestingly enough, I'm only REALLY hungry around mid-morning. Weird, huh?

Why the hell am I doing this, you ask? (OK, maybe you don't care, but I'm keeping a log here, people... )
Well. Two weeks of traveling, moving, living in a hotel, eating out 3x/day, etc, etc--when I dared to step on the scale before I went this route, it said
146.6

This was despite eating low-carb, by the way. I can't imagine where it would have been had I been eating burgers with BUNS. OMG.... Anyhoodlihooo, as any of you who read my log know, I'm a tad bit obsessive about body fat/weight (yeah, me... hard to believe, no? Right. No!), and when I put on my BDUs to go sign in to work and the friggin things were tight--'nuff said.

Calories are between 1300-1500/day, and I'm down 4.9 lbs today (still up 0.3 from 0.8 lbs after having three solid meals on Tuesday). I'll get to around 138 and then reintroduce more solid meals sllllloooooowwwwwwwly.

Another "issue" that I have is (stop reading now if you aren't in the mood for TMI....)...................... .............................. .............................. .........................







problems with GI motility--i.e., there ain't much, and I was using miralax daily (polyethylene gylcol in powdered form, acts as a bulking agent) and, even with this, the ungodly amts of fiber that I normally eat, and the gallons of water I drink, I still had to take a stimulant laxative at least once/week. This SEEMS (fingers crossed) to be self-correcting. Weird, considering that I'm taking nothing now. Maybe less is more for me.

Anyway, my plan is to go to a two day on/one day off cycle (i.e., 2 days of all shakes save for the one meal, then the third day will be a 3-4 solid meal day), then a one day on/one off cycle, then back to food. The only planned indiscretion involves the copious alcohol I will be consuming after the boards are over on the 13th, which MAY set me back a pound or two! I won't do this for more than three weeks, I don't think--if I can get the 2/1 schedule working next week, then the 1/1 after that, I think it will all go swimmingly.

Thoughts?