Day 17 - 18 Nov 2009
Feed
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Breakfast: Porridge w/honey
Morning Snack: None
Lunch: 2 bowls chicken & veg soup
Afternoon Snack: None
Dinner: Thai green chicken curry w/basmati rice, milk
Evening Snack: 2 pepsi max
Alcohol: None
Cals: approx 2500
Exercise
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15 mins - 5min slow + (1min fast + 2min slow)*3 + 1 min fast on exercise bike - level 9 - 5.47km
15 mins - 7 x (1.5slow + 0.5fast) + 1min slow on arm power- level 8 - 5.49km (again)
5 min trying to get a thing that looks like a cross trainer to work properly, much harder than the one I'm used to, gave up.
15 mins - 7 x (1.5slow + 0.5fast) + 1min slow on cross trainer - level 10 - 0.79km (again) - Was going to give up after 10 mins and add the 5 mins on the other yolk, but for about 20 secs around the 10 min mark, I was feeling ok and decided to tough it out. I regretted it very shortly afterwards, but I think once you make your mind up to do something you can't quit, or it makes it easier to quit the next time you feel uncomfortable.
7 weight training thingies 3 X 10.
Looking at Fitday my "fat" calories over the last couple of weeks have marginally overtaken my carbohydrate calories. 2 cans of coconut milk in the thai curry didn't help. I much prefer to have decent butter, olive oil, whole milk etc used in cooking, salads and spreads rather than imitation stuff. I suppose I'll have to use them more sparingly if I want to continue to use them. I've substituted a diet sweetner for real sugar in my multiple daily coffees and to be honest it ruins any enjoyment I used to get out my espresso to the point that I have more than halved my consumption. I probably drank too much coffee to start with, but I'm still not a happy bunny. Still last blood test, my insulin levels were too high, so these things probably have to be done. The calorie levels are still on the high side but I'm not going to attack that until the new year. I want to keep the energy levels up to get comfortable doing decent workouts. If I can stick to the 2500 calorie range , I should still be losing 6 or 7 pounds a month for a few months.
I watched Ireland being cheated out of the World Cup last night without any alcoholic beverage. I'm sure Pepsi Max won't win any prizes from the world nutrionist societies, but it has to be a change for the better. I had just come back sore and pained from a tough session at the gym, so I was damned if I was going to guzzle down a bottle of wine & crisps, like my fellow match watchers, and undo all the hard work.
I got a horrible pain searing cramp in my left calf last night. It is something I have been bothered with intermittently most of my life, through ultra fit phases, to overdoing an underfit body to doing nothing with an underfit body etc. etc. When I was very fit, I used to take very little salt (no processed food, no salt added to fresh food, minimal amount used in cooking), which I later found out can be the cause of cramps, and I suppose I'd probably have drunk very little water and too much alcohol in the unfit phases, which also would bring it on, but there's no excuse now other than overdoing it a tad. Hopefully they will disappear as I get a bit fitter. God they hurt. The only blessing is that cramps in your calf are quite easy to get rid of, with practice, once you can brave it to stand up. It's the hamstrings that are the real killer, fortunately I very rarely get them there.
I thought we went metric in Ireland about 30 years ago. You probably guessed that already but were too polite to say. Just for pig-iron, I had a quick try at the weight I thought I was doing. I think it's fair to say I won't be doing that level of weight training in this lifetime.
