11 sessions (week 3 day 1). I’m going to give myself a punishment if I don’t achieve that target - if I fail I have to rerun the program (with the subsequent increases in weight). That’s going to help motivate me.
@T3hPwnisher thanks, I’m disappointed in myself like you say I know the basics, so I should be doing it. Thanks for the tips - always good, sometimes you pick up new stuff sometimes you just forget and it’s always helpful to have someone reminding you and offering advice.
If someone else has invested time (this goes to every helpful comment in here) in thinking and writing to help and encourage I want to honour that by actually stepping up and moving towards my goal - so thanks to everyone who makes this a great community. Accountability even if it’s to an online forum is powerful.
Nuts. Cashews if you can. Almonds also good. Or even peanuts. Per 100g nothing really has the calorific content of nuts.
650 cals/100g. 30g+ of protein. I’ll never get to a point where they doesn’t shock me.
I know this because I love roasted and salted cashews. BUT eating them is not conducive to my goals. So they are out. For now.
After my recent experiment of making nuts my primary fat source, I’m going to say nut butters should be rotated regularly for the sake of digestion. Nuts, like, corn, tend to make second appearances when consumed in large quantities.
I have the Mrs to thank for drawing attention to the idea of rotation. I’m pretty sure I was starting to redevelop my almond intolerance, and she pointed out that peanut butter wasn’t upsetting my digestion like it used to. It’s too easy for me to get into a nutritional rut, and with nuts in particular that seems like a dangerous game.
Thanks for all the suggestions all, nuts have dropped off the radar a bit recently, they’ll certainly go back in.
Morning weigh in (doing this daily again so I can feel the pressure if I drop back in weight at all) - 208.25.
Last night I made curry, despite being hot and spicy the overriding flavour was olive oil, think I used enough there… then added butter to the rice, was too hot for the Mrs, so just ate hers for breakfast.
I did consider it but genuinely had a huge portion for mine, I employed the tactic of smashing it as fast as I possibly could to beat the feeling of fullness. I do love bacon though!
Curry is all from scratch here, I just have a lot of dried spices and herbs in and throw in “some” - cumin, turmeric, fenugreek, garam masala, chilli, garlic, and salt and pepper, (coriander sometimes when I’ve got it but the rest are the main base), I usually cook it with chicken, onions (frozen chopped already because this is a very quick easy meal), rinsed beans (as in baked beans without the sauce - cheap protein and fibre), chickpeas occasionally, and coconut milk. Generally chicken is a stripped carcass left over from Sunday roast, so cooking time is literally rice time.
Yea it’s great, and the dark meat off the chicken is so much better than breast for the curry (plus going back to earlier talk on eating on budgets a £3 chicken from Aldi does meat enough for a roast and a curry, you’ve gotta really strip that chicken though, the spices even with a heavy hand are pennies per meal a tin of beans is 25p and rice is 40p a kilo and coconut milk is £1 a carton and I use about half, so total cost of the curry can’t be more than about £2.50/£3 - I’ve managed to be fairly successful at feeding the 4 of us for around £55-70 per week mostly £55).
Has transformed pizza for me, slightly more effort than frozen, but really not much. Use a jar of Bolognese sauce (I actually used proper Bolognese, with meat for one pizza - that was epic) for the base sauce then just go mental whatever toppings you like, I think this worked out something around £3 for 8 pizzas (including pepperoni, and ham and pineapple… that wasnt for me before the lynch mob starts!) but that was going thin on the bases. Cost isn’t the real win here - taste is.
I think it does go to show how used to certain movements our bodies become. I had lots of doms for three weeks doing the resto block, because it was different movements. All I get with the other movements when the fatigue sets in is joint pain !! Fk being old.