Hm, that is a bit pricey. Though not unlike some of Dogfish Head's I suppose. We spent $8 on a 12oz bottle of one of theirs a couple of years ago.... 120 minute IPA I think. Not something I'd do often though.
Anyway... Operation Gluttony is officially over. I'm going to work on 100% compliance this week (or at least for a few days), just to make myself feel better... I feel rather gross today, after eating pretty poorly for a week. It sure was decadent though!
Croissants or crepes for breakfast, beer and pizza for lunch, beer and mussels for dinner!
And can I just say, it felt good to just eat. I ate until I felt full. Not just satisfied or to my caloric guidelines, but I Ate with a capital A. I love that feeling and I know that not having that feeling is a large part of my struggle with trying to lose weight – I really like feeling full (not to discomfort). I don’t know if it’s a rush of dopamine or what, but it just FEELS good. I missed that. A lot.
I'm not even going to bother stepping on the scale for at least a week, to let my body kind of 'reset'.
I'm taking myself off the beer for a while. I drank a LOT last week (averaged about 3 a day I think) and REALLY enjoyed it as much as I could. I remembered how much I love, love, love rich, flavorful beer. If I could find a calorie-free, alcohol-free beer that tasted like a Brutal Bitter or La Fin du Monde, I'd buy it by the case.
John read Lyle MacDonald's Guide to Flexible Dieting which I hope to read here in the next week or 2. John's in Lyle's stage 1 and i believe I'm in stage 2; I won't know more about it till I do some reading, though. We'll still be doing PN for our meals, we'll just be doing a few refeeding periods here & there according to Lyle's book. I'm going to try to get down to 140 by my birthday (~2 months) and it's going to take some hard work. I can't half-ass 5-6 pounds of fat loss in 2 months. I know I can do it, I just need to work a bit harder at the fat loss than I have been lately.
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I'm taking myself off the beer for a while. I drank a LOT last week (averaged about 3 a day I think) and REALLY enjoyed it as much as I could. I remembered how much I love, love, love rich, flavorful beer. If I could find a calorie-free, alcohol-free beer that tasted like a Brutal Bitter or La Fin du Monde, I'd buy it by the case.
Good luck with that... the more reasonable alternative would be to enjoy one or two beers a week, and really savor them.
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Infirma nostris corporis virtute firmans perpeti (Strengthen our weak body with eternal power)
- Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Text attributed to Hrabanus Maurus
Good luck with that... the more reasonable alternative would be to enjoy one or two beers a week, and really savor them.
yeah, I know... everything in moderation right? My problem is managing "moderation creep"... one a week turns into two a week turns into three a week etc... I just need to manage that well and I'll be ok. This week at least, though, no booze. I did enough damage last week.
Yesterday's workout - 30 minutes of cycling; after 2 mins warmup, the rest was on level 6 at a moderate pace.
I've been reading several things in people's training logs that they've cut out intervals and cardio to manage their appetites. I'm considering doing that but I don't know... I keep going back & forth. I hate being hungry all the time, but when I cut out cardio/intervals before, my fat loss didn't progress as much as it does with it in. But perhaps that was coincidental because i also started PN (and ended TNT) at the same time I started up the cardio/intervals again.
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I'd keep going with the cardio as I'd not want to do the same work twice in getting it back to the level you're at. But that's me.
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Infirma nostris corporis virtute firmans perpeti (Strengthen our weak body with eternal power)
- Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Text attributed to Hrabanus Maurus
My problem is managing "moderation creep"... one a week turns into two a week turns into three a week etc... I just need to manage that well and I'll be ok.
I hear ya' on that! That's why I'm trying to lose weight when I was supposed to be in a permanent state of maintenance! Damn creeping moderation!
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Originally Posted by DirtyMartini
I've been reading several things in people's training logs that they've cut out intervals and cardio to manage their appetites. I'm considering doing that but I don't know... I keep going back & forth. I hate being hungry all the time, but when I cut out cardio/intervals before, my fat loss didn't progress as much as it does with it in. But perhaps that was coincidental because i also started PN (and ended TNT) at the same time I started up the cardio/intervals again.
Try to eliminate variables one at a time... For me, I'm REALLY becoming more aware of appetite and the effect of lifting and higher intensity cardio... I WILL return to higher intensity work - but not til I get rid of fat and change my focus to eating more (clean) food and building muscle... For example, I lifted yesterday and then ended up over-eating last night
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Be careful about reading health books - you may die of a misprint -- Mark Twain
Negative Chin-Up I couldn't do a single one today.
3x1x13lb pack on my back + 20s descent
Underhand-grip Lat Pulldown
4x2x110
3x2x115
3x2x120
Barbell Split Squat
3x4x95
Push Up
3x4
Did these with my feet raised on a swiss ball, hands on floor. Harder than it looks, but I did it!
I was going to do more stuff, but I was really exhausted after this workout. It didn't seem like I did very much at all... It is probably because I haven't eaten very much at all today.
B: omelet (220kcal)
L: beef patty + salad (350kcal)
S: cottage cheese + fruit (150kcal)
PWO: protein shake (100kcal)
that's it... so yeah. not a great day. I'll make up for it with dinner - mancakes, comin' up!
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I miss my dad a lot today. Totally random, and I have no idea what prompted it. He died 6 years ago (Lou Gehrig’s disease) at the ripe old age of 51. Anyway, so I’ve been meaning to get this VHS tape he made for me converted over to DVD. When I went off to college, my family moved to Germany and my dad sent me home videos a couple of times. I think my mom has one he made for me, but I have the best one (which he named “Cheezy Winter Scenes”). I can’t even really remember what was on it, but I do remember that he set it to his favorite album at that time, Alice in Chains’ “Jar of Flies.” So, I downloaded the album today. It’s making me feel better. I’ve wanted to pick this album up for a long time but just never got around to it.
I think maybe the travel was it. My dad loved traveling and being in a European-style city reminded me of him. I remember him dragging us all over the place, map and videocamera in hand, just wanting to see “one more” thing. We’d walk around cities for like 12 hours, rarely stopping for a rest.
He never got to see me lose my weight (I was around 200 when he died) or get my MBA, not to mention get interested in weight lifting (an occasional hobby of his – I remember him taking me to the gym with him on several occasions while he lifted weights). It took me years to stop feeling like my sense of self-worth was tied directly to his approval/pride in me, and the remnants are still there. I still want to tell him about my accomplishments and share them with him.
Bleh. *sniffle*
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Well, I don’t believe in life after death (or god or heaven etc), so I don’t really believe that. But, I appreciate the notion and thank you.
I’m feeling better. I think I mostly got it out of my system. I looked outside and it’s completely sunny and nice out and that helped. Good thing it’s not all stormy.
Sometimes I think I should keep a journal to write down stuff like this but I don’t know if I would keep up with it. I probably should though; I do like going back & looking at my old journals to see what I’ve dealt with in the past (I’ve even done that with this log just to see where I started, and it’s only been a few months!). At the least, it is a good exercise in self reflection.
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Reverse Lunge w/Dumbbell
1x4x40
1x4x45
2x4x50 ... i obviously underestimated the weight I could hold on this one
2-point dumbbell row
1x4x40
1x4x45
2x4x50 ... same here.
Barbell push press 4x4x75
Good Morning (instead of back extension)
3x4x95
Reverse Crunch
3x4
I was pretty wiped out after this workout and I'm not sure why since it's pretty short. My shoulders have been feeling warm ever since Tuesday - a new kind of post-workout "soreness" for me. My legs & glutes are still pretty sore from Tuesday's workout (damn lunges!) and I'm thinking about doing some foam rolling... I'm not sure I want MORE pain at this point though. I'm sore ALL over.
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Chin-Up
3x1
I was able to do all three chin-ups today, with just a tiny, tiny hop to help give me momentum (nothing more than an inch or two). So it's cheating. I'd rather do that than the negatives.
Underhand-grip Lat Pulldown (AMRAP)
1x5x120
Barbell Split Squat
2x10x75
Push Up (AMRAP - feet on 6" step)
1x16
1x12
I added deadlifts to the end of this workout, but not many. They wore me out very quickly and my arms feel like jelly now.
Deadlifts
1x5x135
1x3x155
i'm tired now.
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I'm in Connecticut this week for work & staying at a Marriott. It has the BEST hotel gym I've ever seen. Dumbbells up to 50 pounds, which is a first. And, two swimming pools (one inside, one out) so I'm going to do swimming for my rest cardio the remainder of the week. FUN!!
Stage 6, Workout B5 - last one!
Reverse Lunge w/Dumbbell
2x10x40
2-point dumbbell row
2x10x40
Dumbbell push press 2x10x25e
Good Morning (instead of back extension)
2x10x30 behind head. These were super-lame but I didn't know what else to do.
Reverse Crunch
2x10
extras:
push-ups with feet on bench 1x10
1x8
*phew*
There's a Hammer Strength machine in the room that I thought I could use to do some sort of squats... so I attached the bar to each of the pulleys... then wondered how on earth I was going to get the bar onto my shoulders since it was only about a foot from the ground... so after sitting there for about a minute I gave up & went back upstairs to do some work.
It was this contraption:
See the pulleys at the top (with the dangling handle thingies)? You take the straps off and slide the pulleys down, then attach each end of the bar to each pulley. I could have put the pulleys in the middle of the gliders, but then the bottom of my squats would have had no resistance. I couldn't figure out how to get under that bar without having someone else lift it for me. *dunce*
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Breakfast - egg white scramble with mushroom/onion/ham/spinach, 200 cals
Snack - Pure Protein bar, 200 cals
Lunch - romaine salad with grilled chicken & FF dressing, 300 cals
Dinner - steamed vegetables and chicken breast over sauteed spinach. The chicken had a slice of pancetta on top of it, then mozarella baked on top. I ate about 25% of the cheese & picked the rest off (there was maybe 2oz on it). I'm guessing 400-450 cals.
post-workout - shrimp cocktail (I ate maybe 1 tsp of the red sauce) & diet coke at the lounge while I did some work. 100 cals
post-shrimp beverage - gin & tonic 200 cals?
Note to self: No alcohol tomorrow.
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No exercise today. well, I walked up two hills in heels - does that count?
Breakfast: egg white omelet with mushrooms, onions, cheddar, ham, green pepper, and tomato. 4 strawberries, 3 pieces of pineapple. 350 calories? 400 maybe.
Lunch: salad... it was about 4 cups of romaine lettuce topped with about 2oz grilled beef, 2oz grilled chicken, about 1/3 cup each of eggplant, carrots, zucchini, bell pepper, and 3 thin slices of mozzarella (maybe 1/8" thick, 3" in diameter). Pretty tasty and I only used about 1Tbsp of herb vinaigrette. Probably about 400 calories.
Dinner: buffalo burger & salad & sierra nevada pale ale (I know, I know...). I picked about 80% of the bun off and mostly just ate the burger (plain with a slice of tomato). I'm guessing about 500 calories.
Snack: half a muscle milk light bar. 85 calories.
I'm not totally sure I got the calories about right, but I focused on getting meals high in veg & protein and think I did a pretty good job at that.
Bah. It's 10pm, I'm tired, and I just finished up some work. I think it's time to hit the hay. I forgot how much you work when you're on the road!
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Damn creeping moderation!
I couldn't do a single one today.
200 cals?