Capua, Shall I Begin?

Cheers Trusylver, I think I'll give energy drinks a miss this week, as it seems from what you posted, they have little to no value in regards to the way I was hoping to utilise them. I had thought about the high calorie count wiping out any weight loss benefits, and you just confirmed that for me. I might just buy a couple of packs of pro-plus tablets, as they are high caffeine and I think without any sugars or calories, I'll have to research that one.

Also, MyProtein sell caffeine powder, but I'm a little dubious about buying it as most customer reviews on the site report feeling sick and being unable to train after taking the recommended dose of 200mg. Might order it just to give it a go at a much lower dose, as it's cheap enough to throw away if it has any unwanted effects.
 
Day 13 report:

Had a nice day of rest and recuperation today, which has done wonders for my motivation. It now feels like I can hit the rest of the week with a full head of steam and really get some good results by next weigh-in.

Food and drink for today:
Wake up: 11am (HAHA, lazy)
11.15am: Bacon crusty roll, cup of green tea no milk/no sugar
3pm: Tin of Heinz tomato soup with 3 slices wholemeal bread
7.30pm: Chicken breast chopped and stirfried with sweet and sour sauce, and a tiny portion of rice (I'm crap at measuring out rice and make way too much, or not even enough to feed a baby hamster) LOTS of broccoli and baby sweetcorn. Cup of green tea.
9pm: cup of horlicks light

Throughout the day I got through 4 litres of mineral water, just drinking it as I felt like it, and before I go to bed, hopefully by about 11pm this evening, I'm planning on having another cup of Horlicks.

Well that was my day, pretty uneventful! Spent a couple of hours playing through Prince of Persia the Forgotten Sands for about the 10th time (yes I am addicted) and feel pretty happy that I'm physically and mentally ready to put the maximum effort I'm capable of into my workouts this coming week.
 
Day 14 report:

Another late post, I fear this may be becoming a bit of a habit...... I'm finding it harder and harder to get to sleep at a decent time.

Also, I haven't mentioned this before, but I think I know the reason why I haven't been so eager to train with weights in the last week. At the beginning of last week I had quite a sharp pain in my right shoulder, no problem, I've had this before and I'm sure it's down to my crap bed which is a regular thing. Usually I just let it run it's course, and most of the time it clicks right back into place after a couple of day, and the pain stops instantly. This time is different, the sharp pain has been replaced by a constant nagging dull ache, which I can feel from my shoulder blade right down to my elbow, but mostly in my tricep area. I think I might need to see a doctor about it, as I've left it a few days with no improvement. VERY disappointed as I was looking to move on and get some good workouts done. I've had a chip out of the point of my elbow from a bad fall for the best part of a year, hope it's nothing to do with this as I've quite happily ignored it up til now!!

Anyway, crap day, no running or any kind of exercise accomplished felt quite crappy the whole day. At least I can say I didn't abandon my diet:

Food and drink for today:

8am woke up
8.30 - Porridge, 2 oranges, Monster energy drink
12 midday - 2 x poached eggs, 1 slice wholemeal toast, green tea no sugar no milk (2 cups)
3pm - Chicken breast strifried in sweet and sour sauce, with plain couscous and peas and green beans, 1 litre tap water.
7.30pm - Tin of Heinz tomato soup with crusty roll, 1 litre evian water

Throughout evening had a couple more litres of water, and a couple of cups of green tea.
 
It is good your going to get your shoulder checked by a Doc although with this sort of injury going straight to a physiotherapist is a good idea as most GPs have very little experience with this sort of problem.
 
Hey Trusylver, I know you're on a completely different continent to me, but I have absolutely no experience with physio's. Do I get a referral from my GP, or from the hospital? I have no medical insurance as I, like other Brits, rely on the NHS to give me slightly above average medical treatment. That is if it doesn't inconvenience them.
 
I think we have a similar system to you but not sure about the referral in the UK, here in Aus we can see a physio with or without a referral but is only covered by medicare (similar to your NHS) for 5 visits a year with a doctors referral.

Part of my job as a sports trainer involves sending people to the right specialist for the injury they have and I have very personal experience with shoulder injuries as that is why I can no longer lift competitively.
 
Day 15 + 16 Report

Ok so I didn't check in yesterday, It didn't go horribly, but it didn't exactly go to plan. As it is I'm currently carrying a shoulder injury, and as of yesterday I cannot run, at least for a couple of days. My left shin is giving me a bit of a problem, I can't really describe the pain, it's very odd. It feels as though something is putting pressure on my shin right in the middle every time I put any weight on it, even walking. I've had trouble with my ankles before, having broke both of them, but never with my shins. Hope it's just fatigue and will go away with a bit of rest.

Anyway, food yesterday was alright, food today was a bit hit and miss, to be honest I've felt a bit, well not depressed, but a bit sad that I haven't been able to exercise for the last couple of days. I feel like the motivation might be slipping away a bit, as once I lose momentum, I tend to revert back to old ways. Oh well, only time will tell.

I didn't really have breakfast, only a mini pork pie around 10am, and then didn't eat again till 8pm. I made Spaghetti Bolognese, which Mama Italia would be proud of, and there is a strong argument for it's inclusion in the Vatican Cook Book (There's bound to be one), but all in all, I've had a crap couple of days.....

Can anyone notice a pattern?

I need a severly hard kick up the arse, seriously, I'm letting it all get on top of me, when I promised it wouldn't, f**kin waste of space!!!
 
Keep your chin up man. Take a few days off to rest your body.

I will let you have some of my Cheesecake to cheer you up.
 
Actually I was carrying it into the house, slipped on some ice and it fell on the ground. I felt terrible having to throw it away. I really appreciated the gesture though
 
Don't you dare give up, Davey. I will pull an AnnaGail and come through your computer screen and pull your ears. :smilielol5:

Nah in all seriousness I hope your shoulder gets better and I really hope its nothing too serious. Particularly love the passive-aggressive exchange you and Ryan just had LOL.
 
I don't know anything about those drinks, but thought once about drinking them, just to have some energy. But my DS said the monster drink would give me a high and also a low....He said it made him jitterier and he had chest pains. So I stick to coffee and tea's of the morning. Decaf at night!

Good Luck to you this week Davey, still pulling for you!!:seeya:
 
Day 17 and 18 report:

Throughout this whole week I haven't put in a single bit of exercise, unless you count Monday and Tuesday's attempts at running, which the results are too poor to even bother posting. I have completed the Heroic 90 Day Challenge quest, which involved 3 x 20 minute walks at an incline, I had my treadmill at 8 incline setting at 4.5mph. I didn't really consider it exercise, just something that kept me from being totally inactive, yet didn't put any stress on my injured leg. I have also kept up with the eating healthy seafood portion of the quest, I had Prawn salad today with no dressing or sauce, Baked Pollock fillet with boiled new potatoes and steamed veg yesterday, and I plan on having a couple of fish dishes tomorrow: Jansson's Frestelse (I make mine with Sardines not anchovies) for lunch, a traditional Swedish fish dish, and another prawn salad in the evening.

Anyway, time to refocus entirely. I've re-thought my entire approach to exercise, the previous one possibly was the reason I got injured. Instead of one long slog on the treadmill once a day, I'm going to break it up into 2-3 smaller runs of 3 miles each. This will allow me to go at it at a higher intensity, rather than have to pace myself in order to achieve the possibly unrealistic (given my current level of fitness) goals that I'd previously set myself. In addition to this, I will have at least 3 sessions of weights per week. I'd previously neglected all weights training which was a big mistake, and although my shoulder is not quite 100% I think weightlifting cannot do any harm, only make it stronger!!!

UFC Fight for the Troops is tonight, so gonna have a couple of beers while watching it, not a fail on my diet, as I always have a few beers when watching MMA, although if I'm ever seriously to train in MMA i'll have to cut all that out. Oh well, we'll see what happens in the future, If I'm serious about it or not......
 
Day 19 + 20 report:

Ok so sunday didn't go great! As I said, I watched UFC Fight for the Troops on saturday night/Sunday morning (as it's on live, we don't get it till 2am) and didn't get to sleep till 07:45am sunday morning. I slept till about 2pm in the afternoon, and had my two fish meals as I'd previously planned, then went back to bed about 10pm. I didn't get any workouts in at all.

On to today, which also happened to be weigh-in day, and a day off work too. I weighed in at 3.5lbs heavier than last week, probably due to the 11 Stella's I got through leading up to and during the UFC event. I don't tend to drink alone usually, but the weeks total inactivity had got to me somewhat, and I adopted a bit of a "f**k it" attitude. Oh well, "spoiled brat mode" ftw I suppose!!!

My grandmother visited my flat this morning, and preceded to smoke her way through about 10 cigarettes during her 2 hour visit, I hadn't the heart to ask her not to as she's prone to fits of histrionics, and the last time I asked her to smoke outside when she visited my flat she refused to even talk to me for about 3 months. Ridiculous, I know, but I hate having that tension in my family, so I kinda tend to put up with it.

Anyway, I made the best of the day, I got 2 runs in, though not as good as they should have been, due to the chokingly smoky atmosphere (my treadmill is in my living room), food wasn't great, I had one burger in a crusty roll the entire day, and I still don't feel like eating again, especially not so close to bed time.

Exercise for the day:

Treadmill runs:

1st time 16:08
Distance 1.5 miles
Calories 177

2nd time 50:16
Distance 4.7 miles
Calories 558

The first run ended early, as despite my attempts to leave all windows open and air the flat out, I ended the run due to nearly throwing up and having to use my asthma inhaler (which I hate using, as it's an admission of my weakness). The second run was slightly better, not really my best but could've been a lot worse. Anyway going to try a lot harder this week!

Anyway just about to settle down to watch one of my favourite films of all time, Absurdistan (when is it going to get a UK DVD release?), no work tomorrow so I can get a decent couple of workouts in!!!
 
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Day 21 report:

Had a blinder of a day, both diet and exercise seem to be well back on track, as well as getting a decent amount of sleep and waking at a reasonable time. I do seem to be losing my marbles somewhat, as I found myself taunting a chicken breast as I pummeled it with a rolling pin to tenderise it. It appears the usually riveting conversations with myself are no longer enough to keep me entertained, so much so, that I sought refuge in the belittlement of my dinner. Hmm must keep an eye on that. And find some female company......

It's not that I haven't had offers, it's just that I haven't yet adjusted my expectations on the belly fat to girlfriend attractiveness ratio. It's got to that stage whereby most of my former girlfriends would be downright embarrassed to admit we dated, or to even acknowledge my existence.

How the mighty have fallen. Anyway, enough of this very English self-loathing (one of the few things left that we exceed at), let's try to concentrate on what I've done right recently, shall we?

Food for today

Wake up: 8am
Breakfast: 8.15am - Bowl of Muesli with Greek-style yoghurt (what is the difference between Greek-style and actual Greek Yoghurt?), with 10 chopped strawberries and a cup of black coffee (it never tastes any better so I wait till it's nearly cold and down it), no sugar. 500ml bottle of Evian water.
9.30am - 1 x Rocha Pear, and slice of wholemeal toast with peanut butter, cup of earl grey, no milk no sugar.
11am - 12 midday - 2 litres of bottled water during run.
12.45pm (lunch) - Baked Chicken breast stuffed with small slice of Boursin cheese and wrapped in parma ham, with plain couscous and veg (broccoli, green beans, baby sweetcorn). 2 x glass of robinsons orange squash
4.30pm - Small tin John West Red Salmon with salad (lettuce, celery, cucumber, spring onion, cherry tomatoes) and teaspoon of olive oil drizzled over and 5 small boiled new potatoes. 2 x glasses sparkling spring water with fresh squeezed lemon juice.
8pm - 50g protein powder mixed in semi-skimmed milk, cup of green tea, no milk or sugar.
10pm - cup of horlicks

I feel like that's the healthiest I've eaten in ages, I may well stick to this as my daily diet, with small alterations here and there. Everything was extremely tasty, and kept me full for a decent amount of time.

Exercise for today:

11am - 12pm:

Treadmill intervals
Time: 57.42
Distance: 5.4 miles
Calories: 624 calories

Didn't go all out on the treadmill today, and finished my run about 10 minutes earlier than the playlist I'd created, but on the whole I can't complain. After all, after the bad week I had last week with no exercise at all, at least I'm managing to motivate myself again.

Anyway I fully expect myself to keep at it this time, If I don't then I will literally invent time travel in order to come back from the future and kick my own arse!!!
 
It's not that I haven't had offers, it's just that I haven't yet adjusted my expectations on the belly fat to girlfriend attractiveness ratio. It's got to that stage whereby most of my former girlfriends would be downright embarrassed to admit we dated, or to even acknowledge my existence.
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Ah, steady on Davey (I hope I used that correctly). You're gonna kick some ass and go back to womanizing in no time.
 
Day 22 Report (Jan 26th):

Didn't check in yesterday evening, but not cus of any alcohol related escapade or because it was a crap day, it was in fact a pretty good day. I finally got round to watching some of the Boardwalk Empire episodes that have been sitting on my hard drive for quite a while, and I must say I'm pretty disappointed in myself that I never bothered to watch it before. I'm up to episode 5 now, I watched the first four in a single sitting, then realised how late it was and skipped the forum in order to get some sleep. I'm addicted already, can't wait to see the next few episodes.

Anyway, food and drinks for yesterday was as follows:

Wake up: 6am
Breakfast, 6.20am: Poached egg on wholemeal toast, Rocha Pear, black coffee, 250ml Innocent orange juice.
8.30am - 10am: Litre of evian water
10am: Sushi box from Waitrose, Powerade drink, plus litre bottle of Perrier water throughout rest of morning.
3pm: Chicken Kiev, with salad (Cherry tomatoes, lettuce, salad onions, celery) and steamed veg (broccoli and green beans), cup of green tea, and glass of orange juice.
Late afternoon - early evening: 2 more pears, 3 cups of green tea and another litre of water, not too sure on the timings of each, just had them as I wanted them.
8pm: Breaded Cod fillet, baked, and salad (same salad portion as earlier), Innocent Strawberry and banana smoothie
10.30pm: 2 cups of Horlicks light (made with water instead of milk, halves the calories)

Exercise for the day:

Well, didn't get any exercise in officially, but I had a work day (a rare occasion these days) and I'm sure the calorie fairies don't discriminate between exercise done while at work and exercise done during "off the clock" hours. Anyway, being a house removal job that I do, it's pretty physical and in total (after lunch and travel time was deducted) I got about 4 hours of work and workout time in. The removal job was a first floor flat to a ground level flat, so literally about the first hour and a half was running up and down stairs with boxes in my hand, and lifting heavy furniture down the stairs. I'm pretty sure that all the running I've been doing lately has payed off greatly, my stamina and cardio seems immense, I didn't get out of breath once throughout the entire job, and the clients commented on how fit I must be to keep going at such a fast pace. I hope business picks up soon, as each work day is a great workout. I am currently looking for a new job, but I have some cash reserves, so I don't have to resort to scrounging off the system just yet lol.

Day 23 report (27th January):

Today was another good day, I might actually be getting the hang of all this healthy living malarkey. I had another day of good food and good exercise, and feel all the better for it.

Food and drink for today:

Wake Up: 7.30am
Breakfast - 8am: 1 sachet oats-so-simple porridge, glass of semi skimmed milk, a pear, and a slice of toast. Cup of coffee with semi skimmed milk.
12.30pm: Rainbow Trout fillet with salad and veg (same portions as above), glass of orange juice, and cup of green tea.
4pm: Tin of Heinz Tomato soup with 3 slices of wholemeal bread, half litre of perrier water.
7.30pm: Baked Chicken Breast and Lamb Chop (I couldn't be bothered to do anything with it) with a small amount of ketchup, half litre perrier water, earl grey tea with semi skimmed milk. Pear for pudding!
11pm: 4 Jacobs Crackers with Brie Cheese, cup of Horlicks light.

Exercise for the day:

2 treadmill runs:
1st (11am - 11.35am) time: 35.02
Distance: 3.1miles
Calories: 379

2nd (6.30pm - 6.55pm) Time: 21.11
Distance: 2 miles
Calories: 245

Not the best treadmill runs, but I read in Muscle and Fitness magazine lately that smaller cardio workouts, broken up into twice or three times daily burn more fat rather than one big workout, so I thought I'd give it a try.

Anyway, I'm pretty happy with the last couple of days, I shall try to keep it up as it clearly has some benefit for me.
 
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Daybehavior said:
Ah, steady on Davey (I hope I used that correctly). You're gonna kick some ass and go back to womanizing in no time.
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LMAO, have you been watching Eastenders? You used the "steady on" perfectly! I've kinda grown out of the whole clubbing scene, and all that goes along with it. In my early twenties it was fun, but now I hate it with a passion. I think right now that whole lifestyle is behind me, there'll be no classic Davey coming back from the dead, just a more mature me looking for something a bit more, well if not permanent, then certainly more stable than some of my less than salubrious past misadventures.
 
Then I started talking to myself, offering words of encouragement to try to push myself further, which then became shouts of encouragement. Finally this degenerated into what can only be described as potty-mouthed self-abuse, my personal favourite went something like this: "If you don't finish this, you deserve to die you weak c***!". Quite clearly not my finest hour in regards to convincing people I'm a sane, normal human being, but whatever it takes, I suppose.

Now, I like to keep my front window wide open while I'm running, so God knows what any passers by must have been thinking upon hearing these obscenities spewing forth as if from Hades itself.......
I'd imagine, they were probably thinking about planning a different route to the shops next time!
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Ooooh, just one of the many giggle fits that I endured reading this!

Congrats on your progress! You're doing fantastic!! You should be very proud!
 
Tik said:
Ooooh, just one of the many giggle fits that I endured reading this!

Congrats on your progress! You're doing fantastic!! You should be very proud!
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Hey Tik, Cheers, both for the congrats and for finding my postings funny. I won't be proud till I hit my target, and get myself back to martial arts training. I could go right now, but at the gym where I'm hoping to train, most of the guys and gals are involved in some level of competition, both pro and amateur, and I'd feel like a total bum walking in there out of shape.

It's late right now, so gonna head off to sleep, but I'm gonna check out your diary tomorrow. Hope you're doing well!!!
 
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