Ever consider the Dan John strategy of carrying around a backpack with a loaf of bread and a jar of peanut butter (and jelly, but my understanding is that this is offensive to non-yanks, haha)? Bagels would work too, ala Chase Karnes/Eric Bugenhaden
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I’ve yet to try PB&J but it doesn’t sound appealing (might be the regional difference in jam/jelly and peanut butter), but I’m always happy to put away more bread!
It’s not generally access to food that’s the problem, yesterday for instance I was WfH (which I am most days) I was mentally pretty exhausted so just didn’t force food into myself, no excuse, just poor discipline, hence me being annoyed at myself.
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Apparently it was an American solider/GI thing that was brought back home from WWII. Soldiers were given rations of bread, peanut butter, and jelly, and took to making sandwiches out of them. They got hooked, came home, and it spread throughout the country.
Spam apparently has a similar story too. It’s funny the influences of food.
But I get that frustration. Hard to overcome inertia.
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There might be a regional/national difference when it comes to peanut butter (and breads), but we will use any kind of jam, jelly, preserves, you name it. Not marmalade though.
Grape, strawberry, raspberry, blackberry tend to be favorites.
Peanut butter and honey is far more regional but also a tasty choice.
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This was my pre-workout meal for a LONG time. On sourdough bread. It was really just an excuse to eat a PB and honey sandwich, haha.
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That’s a great story, you could even say pb&j originated in Europe 
Yup, the grind for gaining is real, I can much more easily adapt to feeling hungry than I can relentlessly eating (not even feeling full these days just the time/prep/eating/shopping/planning).
I have eaten that on the back of a Pwn recommendation in the past (spawned a conversation about sandwiches that made me look a bit stupid!). It’s a good combo.
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You misspelled peanut butter
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Weight: 205
Food:
60g whey & banana
Breakfast: 6 eggs, 2 toast (not peanut) butter.
Pre-workout: banana and sugar free energy drink
PWO: banana and 60g whey
Lunch: peanut butter on toast X2
60g whey & biscuits
Dinner: 2 x chicken Kiev’s, chips (fries) and beans
Going full white trash meat head today.
Totally forgot I had a donut earlier, now eating ice-cream, will finish the night with 60g casein shake.
Very poor quality food choices today, mostly just sticking 2 fingers up to my own body today, will improve.
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DC - A2
Wu: 60kg x 8, 70, 80, 90kg x 5, 95kg x 1
Work: 100kg x 7, 4, 3 (14)
Stretch 75 seconds
Final rep there was a bum off seat all out, seeing stars, grinder.
Wu: 15, 20kg x 10
Work: 22.5kg x 15, 5, 3 (23)
Stretch: 60 secs
Disappointing, I’m exhausted and felt weak as crap coming in, but having beat the first section of the RP I just needed to maintain the last time I hit this, but couldn’t, time to change it out.
Wu: 40, 50, 60kg x 10
Work: 65kg x 17, 7, 4 (28)
Stretch: 60 secs
That stretch was perfect today, it’s funny I can almost exactly time 30 secs (I close my eyes), that’s the point where the stretch kicks into the next gear and pain really ramps up, I open my eyes at that point, hoping there won’t be another 30 seconds knowing full well there will be, after that 45 seconds is next level and just a case of hang in there for 15 seconds more.
Wu: bw, 5kg x 5
Work: 10kg x 9, 4, 3 (16)
Stretch: 1 min strapped 40kg
Oh yea, glad to have a couple added on there!
Wu: 40, 50kg x 8
Work: 60kg x 11 - slightly less ugly reps
My feelings for today/this week/year:
Absolutely dragged myself through that, if it wasn’t already Thursday without any training this week, I’d have skipped this. Took way too long to get this done as well (somewhere around 90-100 mins). Mentally not in it this week, still got in here, beat the log book in most stuff - so that’s a win.
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No weight in been out all night
Food:
About 0400/0500 2 x chocolate bars, large curry pot noodle
0800: bacon roll (both food on a call out - 8 hour call out, big fire!)
1030: 60g whey
1530: 60g whey chicken fajita wrap
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Neither of those are food
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Morning weight: 206.5
Food yesterday didn’t get fully recorded, sleep deprivation - I’m not 100% sure what I ate, but there was a Chinese in there and couple more shakes (took advantage of being woken by the baby at 2am got a Casein shake).
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DC - B2
Alt DB curl 20-30rp
Wu: 7.5, 10, 12.5kg x 10
Work: 15kg x 16, 7, 6 (29)
Stretch: 1 min (40/20 split, pain!)
5 sec neg hammer curls
10kg x 12
Stretch: 1 min
Forgot to increase weight, next week.
This yet again, time to switch it, what else to do though?
Lying Ham curls 20-30rp:
Wu: 40, 50, 60kg x 8
Work: 65kg x 16, 8, 5 (29)
Stretch: 1 min
Had a friend who uses the gym come in near the start of this, he’s not long widowed, always make sure to take time to chat and make sure he’s in a reasonable place. It slowed my work down a lot but worth it, anyway ran behind and needed to call it and not ignore the Mrs for the whole evening! I’ll get the squats done tomorrow.
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Morning weight: 205.5 (Chinese bloat gone).
Thought dump:
- I feel a little fluffy, part of this is gaining weight, part of this is psychological, a further part is poor food choice
- apparently I can’t log my food choices for more than a day
- I don’t want to stop gaining weight yet
- the Mrs told me I looked bigger today, I didn’t believe her, funny how I’ll believe her when she tells me I need to do more direct arm work
- the tiny bit of recording I did showed me I’ve been justifying a stream of very poor food choices because I’m gaining weight, I can do better than that
Conclusion: keep gaining, improve food choices and cut out all sugar again, zero need for it. Also I’ll keep recording daily weight, but not food, I know how to eat well and I know how to gain, a simple weight recording will keep me honest without the faff of trying to write down everything I eat, not stepping on stage after all!
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DC B2 part 2
Wu: 60, 80, 80kg+ … Red, black, red & black, purple, purple and red, purple & red & black x 5
Work: 80kg + green + black x 8
WM: 80kg + black x 26
Stretch: 1 min
I realised that my back was feeling half decent, so thought I’d push the kg as well as the bands and reps, would be nice if my back stays this way to keep building the KG slowly against the bands, pretty sure I’ve squatted 170kg against black bands for reps (might even have a video somewhere) so I’ve definitely got a long run way here, I’m going to keep it SSB, and just see where it takes me.
Disappointed that I racked the bar on WM, don’t think I was far off, but my mind definitely gave out.
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DC A3
Morning weight 205,
Wu: BW x 8, 10, 20, 30kg x 5
Work: 40kg x 10, 5, 4, (19)
Stretch: 90 secs
Wu: 20, 40kg x 10, 50, 55kg x 3
Work: 60kg x 9, 3+F, 1 (14)
Stretch: 1 min
Wu: 50, 70, 80kg x 5, 90kg x 3
Work: 95kg x 4+F, 3+F, done
Stretch: 1 min
Honestly couldn’t see unloading and reloading to get 1/2 additional reps/fails being worth it, the fail at 5th was a mis-groove on this fat grip, smooth, awkward bar there’s no room for error, fail at 4th was a just me being in a crappy head space.
Seated cable rows:
Wu: 40, 89kg x 8
Work: 100kg X 20, 10*, 10
Stretch: 40kg x 1 min
*Little back spasm at rep 4 and onwards, unpleasant sensation in my scapula.
TBDL: 60kg x 1 - nope, mid back (picked up a new strain, probably could have pushed through, honestly couldn’t be bothered).
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Morning weight 205
Cardio (it happens occasionally)
Started 5 mins of walking then went 5.5mph for 5 mins, 6.5mph for 5, 7 for 5, then 7.5 for 5, final 5 mins I went 8 for 3 mins, 8.5 then 9 for the final two.
Started off as a LISS (how did it end up like this) didn’t stay that way.
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Food:
I said I’d make better choices and have done for the last few days, no sugar, that’s just an open ended thing now, I don’t need it.
Food has all been food, not franken food, adding in an additional meal alongside my night time casein shake - either PB or cheese on toast (I am happy enough with toast for gaining periods). Last night I was getting the toast done and realised we’d run out of cheese & PB… Found tinned mackerel instead (I don’t like fish particularly) did it in the interest of making a solid food choice and making progress towards my goals.
Today we got cheese, a 400g block is gone already, I didn’t eat all of it, some went on top of a family sized fish pie (1kg of white fish…slightly better than mackerel), but I made a good dent.
Tonights final meal was an extra calorie fest, I found some pâté that I didn’t know we had (fortunately unopened and still in date) so slathered that on thick and upgraded the cheese on toast, which was extra sour sourdough (had to pick off some furry bits!)
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Stick with me here: PB on cheese instead.
Found tinned mackerel instead (I don’t like fish particularly) did it in the interest of making a solid food choice and making progress towards my goals.
Hell yeah! Way to get to yes.
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