[quote]cavalier wrote:
[quote]big nurse wrote:
Monday (at work)
01.30 chicken drumstick, green salad, dressing.[/quote]
Wow, you’re dedicated. I’d eat my hand if that was my meal.[/quote]
Fell off perch later when i found my emergency hiking stash in my ruck !!. 3rd night in though --usually massive carb cravings at this stage of night duty.
Yeah, working 24 hour shifts or switching them around really brings out the hunger for carbs.
Something that has always helped me with carb cravings is mixing 2 tbsps of natural PB and 1-1.5 scoops chocolate protein powder, add just enough milk to mix and eat with a spoon. It’s awesome, low carb, and tastes like a peanut butter cup.
[quote]Elaikases wrote:
Yeah, working 24 hour shifts or switching them around really brings out the hunger for carbs.[/quote]
don’t they ever !!.
I think it was the combination of high stress, lots of coffee and loads of fast easily available carbs that got me into trouble.
[quote]dday wrote:
Something that has always helped me with carb cravings is mixing 2 tbsps of natural PB and 1-1.5 scoops chocolate protein powder, add just enough milk to mix and eat with a spoon. It’s awesome, low carb, and tastes like a peanut butter cup.[/quote]
I now keep a big jar of chunky natural (whole earth) pb in the fridge at work ,when i am craving i just go, stick a knife in the jar and eat staright off the knife !!
Also just experiementing with having protein shakes at work, seems to help.
Tonights booboo was that i managed to leave home without the chicken drumsticks i had prepped but with a small amount of potato sald, so tonights main meal turned into :
1 protein shake
potato salad with walnuts.
unconventional but it seems to have hit the spot.
…Ill admit all this food talk is making me hungry, and I just ate !
[quote]UpScale wrote:
…Ill admit all this food talk is making me hungry, and I just ate ![/quote]
With the work you are putting in right now i would say ‘go eat’ and enjoy.
You deserve it.
End of week report.
Week 3, wherein it did all go : tit’s up.
Major disappointment time !!.
End of last week =82kg, end of this week 82.4kg !!!.
Actually what hapenned weight wise is that i ‘bounced’ at the weekend due to going on…coming off…going on…coming off…night shifts to a consistent 83.3 throughout the week. I wasn’t too stressed about this knowing that a shitty shift pattern and the nights issue will always give me water retention --anything up to 1.6l from previous experience.
So i was kind of expecting that once i dumped the excess water i would be sitting in the high 81s which is where i was hoping to be, instead after the water dump i am actually heavier then last week.
Ok…wasn’t the best week for weights training although i did get in and work through 3 lacklustre sessions–just punching the ticket sessions !!, i did however get in lots of hours/miles walking and did pretty well on the diet except for the transition off days when i did have some excess carbs and less protein.
On the positive side i do seem to have lost fat, my main measurement is a reference to the belt on my work trousers…let me explain…when i started all this i was in a 42" cargo style pants with a clip/slide belt, as i lost weight and changed sizes i kept the belt as an instant reference–the excess is still getting longer, indeed this week i had to tighten in again. On my ‘belt measure’ i would seem to have lost a near 11" total over the 18 months and probably a 1/2 inch during the week.
Colleagues are commenting how thin in the face i am getting !, there are parts where the fat is clearly thinning right out–partener says she can feel hip bones (ileac crests), peripheral fat is generally a lot less but i do seem to be retaining ‘lumps’ specifically front belly and love handles.
Moans over !! i do know from past experience that fat loss isn’t linear and when i was initially trying to just to lose weight that there were times when it was plummeting and times when it just wouldn’t budge.
I guess the frustration this time is that i know how much effort i am putting in all round and yet it isn’t happening.
Almost as though my body is giving me the finger !!.
So…off to the gym to have a first crack at the old meathead challenge.
Good luck with the meathead challenge, amazing that after just a few months training you can lift bodyweight for reps. Just be sure to get the police after the guy who pumps oxygen out of the gym halfway through.
[quote]cavalier wrote:
Good luck with the meathead challenge, amazing that after just a few months training you can lift bodyweight for reps. Just be sure to get the police after the guy who pumps oxygen out of the gym halfway through.
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Just done it…32 reps done as 4 sets of 8. Trying to do the upload now (filmed it).
By coincidence my junior doc colleague was in the gym but wasn’t needed !!
First successfull upload/download jobbie.
Give the monkey a banana !!
Good work, Nurse! Now, aren’t you glad you dropped weight?
Thanks cav–yeah just imagined what that would have been like at my starting weight (around 105kg)
Looking at the video now again i think i have a few more reps in me: i think i sold myself short by about 10 seconds and should have maybe tried for something like 12.10,8 etc.
Kind of talking myself into having another crack at it.
Completely new territory though. !!
Week 4 begins.
Weight up again this morning at 82.8 ??. Really not getting this.
Anyway…onwards.
late night as making transition back onto nights today.
02.00 protein shake.
12.00 looked out of window…pissing down, stayed in bed with a cup of tea (how very brit is that eh chaps !!)
13.00 late breakfast, sausage, bacon, beans 1 slice toast.
14.00 still heavy rain, more tea then drive to gym.
Workout : running warm up 1 mile. weight complex workout with barbell 1 @ 25kg 1 @ 27.5 kg
Then front squat progession with sets at 30 35 40 and 45 kg done as circuit with running intervals 1/4 mile at 9-9.5 mph pace.
So :
Fs 66lb x10, run 0.25 mi
Fs 77lb 1x10,run 0.25 mi
Fs 88lb 1x8, run 0.25 mi
Fs 99lb 1x5, run 0.25 ,i
Fs 99lb 1x5, run 0.25 mi
Continuing with some rotation abs work with the black band : (simulating kayak,canoe and archer pulls)
Finishing with 1 mile interval run.
16.00 protein shake,latte and fj. drive home, weather breaking so should be able to walk to work.
18.00 main meal : burgers x 2, salad.
Leaving straight for work in brief weather window.
Feeling really dry at work straight away–definite impresion that this is what happens when i start to retain lots of water, could be salt related which would explain a lot.
19.00 supplemtary workout pre work : 2 x stair sets ! (6 floors) up and down with 5 x decline pressups (1 step decline) at top.
New supplementary anytime workout–just need something to do pull ups on now !!
22.00 snack time : nuts apple.
Overnight, running up and down stairs.
Tuesday.
00.30 main night meal. chicken drumstick & salad.
03.00 snax , dates, nuts 2 knife loads of pb
06.00 supplementary workout (2 fast stair sets + 2 sets of 5 decline press ups…2 step decline)
06.30 breakfast. cottage cheese, creme fraiche,berries, dab of honey
Walk home.
09.00 protein shake.
Very disturbed and nroken sleep, dowmloading quite a bit of fluid through day.
16.00 up, evening weight 83.0kg. grean tea and 2 db to wake up.
17.30 main meal .chicken breast and sald.
18.00 walk to gym.
Workout.
Warm up, 6 move complex 1 round 55lbs.
Main work : deadlift, second work bench. Plan was to superset but the gym was really busy and bench sation in use. Even had to search gym for unused oly bar
So : deadlift
60kg 1x10 Bench bb 1x10
80kg 1x10 30kg 1x10
90kg 1x10 40kg 1x10
100kg 1x15 50kg x4 x4 x4 x4
110kg x3 x3 x3
Chins 1 set.
Gym just too busy to get decent work done.
19.00 protein shake,banana,dates,nuts
Overnight at work.
Total paces 24.000
Wednesday.
06.00 usual breakfast .
08.00 walk home.
Rest day,
Toast x2 x2 x2
Very disturbed/restless night, finally to bed about 04.00
Thursday. weight 83.0 (wtf)
Surprise surprise, late start.
Raining…went back to bed.
Approx 12.00 green tea. Zma
13.00 lazy breakfast.toast 2db
14.00 to gym, circuit training based on : squat,chins,decline press up, run 0.25 miles each round…5 rounds. 1dm to finish.
Post workout shake,latte and fj
Walk home
17.00 chicken drumstick
19.30 main meal : breaded fish fillet & chunky salad (broccoli,green beans,cauliflower,spring onions,walnuts)
20.30 supplementary short workout : pull ups 3 decline press ups 2x5 chins x5 pull up 1.
21.00 late snack : cottage cheese ,berries pb cf.
Friday.
Late start, but transitioning onto nights so not such a problem today.
11.00 ZMa and green tea. Then breakfast, usual cc. banana.cf,berries.honey
12.00 lazy day : coffee and 2 db pre gym.
13.00 walk to gym
Workout ; meathead challenge and workout posted separately.
16.00 post workout shake, latte and fj
16.00 to supermarket abd walk home.
18.00 main meal : breaded fish fillet, sald and small amount potato salad.
18.30 walk to work.
Good job on the deads.
The weight gain can be muscle growth. The mirror and / or measurements are a better guide for progress. I would ditch the scale for a while.
Great lifting dude, breajfast sounded pretty good.
Thanks guys, it’s been real ‘scratch head’ time this week.
Todays effort.
(rest day yesterday after coming off nights)
Morning weight after long sleep = 83kg…does not compute !!
Anyway…onwards.
Walk to gym, still raining.
Warm up complex 2 rounds ie 10 reps each of : deadlift,ohp,rear squat,gm,bnet over bb row,clean and push press. First round as normal loaded at 55lbs. Second round new progression to 66lbs. Felt ok except stalling a bit on the last move, but it’s still a progression to the next plates.
Main work : circuit/cardio.
Circuit of : front squat 5s, chins 5s, decline press up 5s and run 0.25 mile at 9mph pace average…
Progressing as :
Squat 77lb x5, chins,press ups & run.
Squat 88lb x5 …ditto
Squat 99lb x5…
Squat 99lb x5…
Squat 104lb x5…etc
Which makes it first time out with the front squat over 100lb–wasn’t particularly pretty but was a good effort.
Finishing with :
1 dartmoor mile, height gain around 230 ft.
Kb swings 15 and squats 15.
Post workout shake/latte and walk home.
So : just a small (5lb) progression on 2 week areas but better than nothing.
After workout–walked up to the college gym to scout out the facilities there. Some of the kit in the free weights area looks better than where i am and the membership is only half the cost of where i am now. The music is just as bad though !!
Decision ??
Don’t base your decision on the noise raining down from the loudspeakers, charitably known as “music”. Every gym I’ve been in my life has it exactly the same.
Gyms in the US often offer 1 or 2 free workouts before you sign up. Do they offer that over there?
The music issue is really a non issue now as i have taken to wearing one of those bicep holster ipod thingies…usually with a mix of led zeppelin/metallica/wagner etc. !!.
I think i will go and have a workout there anyway.
The free weights kit looks that bit more serious (although there was nobody–but nobody using it).
Price is attractive and that is a driver…even though i am in full time employ i only use a small part of the facilities at the posh gym–in fact really only 1 small corner and i gradually get the impression that my gym just doesn’t really provide for the lifter in terms of space and kit.
Gym chain has also changed hands and the new conglomerate are putting the fees up.