Good job with not hurting yourself. The first thing to address is your t-dawg diet question. I can’t answer that as I know nothing about it and I’ll let someone else answer it that does have experience or knowledge about it. Though you can always do more digging into it, search the forums for t-dawg you should get some more posts on it.
Hmm I have found that a small cup of veggies twice a day is generally beneficial. Though of course if you look up the actual recommendations for the amount of vegetables you are supposed to eat its a bit higher then 2 small servings. There is a lot of information already on nutrition on the site and of course other sites.
Sounds like you responded well to the pyramid. If you choose to continue with this method when 135 becomes easy then 155 will become your new base and changes made in the heavier sets will also need to be adjusted accordingly.
When you can say : “Today felt like the best workout of my life”. I think there is some good progress going on.
Re: sudden pushup failure
If you suddenly head toward the ground, nose first then quickly turn your head to one side and make sure your forearms break your fall and just roll to a side. This’ll prevent you from smashing your face if it suddenly does happen. Variation of a martial arts move when falling forward ~ though since your so close to the ground your less likely to hurt yourself as bad as if you were to go from standing to face-planting.
