No morning cardio - slept late and woke up even later. Watched the movie Push, boring and stupid and wondered why the hell I slept late for that crappy movie. (Will DECREASE total calories today to make up for the missed cardio).
FitDay macros:
Protein 244.6 (38%)
Carbs 184.6 (28%)
Fiber 14.2
Fats 96.4 (34%)
Total calories 2537.
Today was not that bad. All I had to do was tell myself over and over that “If I am NOT hungry, then I am doing something wrong”. “I am SUPPOSED to be hungry and it is normal”.
I normally am still hungry when I eat over 6000 calories per day so I can’t fathom why I had a negative reaction to hunger, when I am supposed to be hungry on a diet. Of course I can reduce the hunger with volumization with vegetables (I think Stu was eating 3 lbs of broccoli per day!), but I will save that for later on in the diet when calories drop further down and I really NEED it. Well at least that is the plan.
I think you really need to rethink you “re-feed” days… all your doing is inforcing bad habits that will kill your future goals… binging on a pizza or a burger is one thing, but eating over 2.5k callories from fast food in one sitting, and the 3 to 4 candy bars are really undoing a lot of your hard work…
I am speaking from experiance here as I used to justify things like this also… Instead, go get a good steak / piece of meat… and focus on how good it tastes and really, really enjoy it… it will break your bad habits and build new good ones…
Yeah, the refeed day was my brother’s birthday refeed (so he controlled what and how much food we bought). I will try not to do any refeeds at all for the foreseeable future on this phase of the diet.
Yeah, that is why it was a birthday refeed, not just a regular refeed where a person will do it regularly. I agree even if I work out 3 hours per day, it is not enough to offset my appetite, so it is best not to do refeeds at all.
Evening cardio:
Walked on the treadmill for 30 minutes alternating between:
2 minutes at 3.0 mph and 7.5 incline and
3 minutes at 3.0 mph and 15.0 incline
Mike, how fast do you eat? Like, if you’re at BK and eating two whoppers?
It’s interesting how your diet has been more compliant the last couple days after the refeed. It’s also been more liquid. I guess it’s harder to get in trouble if you’re not eating solid food?
[quote]EasyRhino wrote:
Mike, how fast do you eat? Like, if you’re at BK and eating two whoppers?
It’s interesting how your diet has been more compliant the last couple days after the refeed. It’s also been more liquid. I guess it’s harder to get in trouble if you’re not eating solid food?[/quote]
I try to eat a lot slower than I used to. I read a few times that the brain needs some time for it to register that the stomach has food in it/ full. I wanted to eat more but I was saving myself for dinner - Dominos! Unfortunately my brother did not go through with his plans to buy pizzas and subs from Dominos and I was very disappointed. To be honest, if I knew that this would have happened, I would have eaten at least double what I did including fries and soda - instead of drinking water only.
The more solid food I eat, the more I tend to cheat, so I will try to keep my diet the way it is named in the thread - “Velocity inspired diet”. It will be like the Velocity Lite program where you can eat at least 1 solid meal, but the rest HAVE to be liquid. Hopefully I can keep eating cleaner for the rest of the duration of the diet, but as has been evidenced in the past my will power is sorely LACKING and cheats foods around me aplenty.
Damn, woke up with the sorest knees I have ever experienced (especially the right one). I think I tweaked it doing squats/leg extensions. It made the morning cardio a little more challenging but as Alpha always writes in his training log “it is what it is”. If you have not had a chance to read Alpha’s Work log, you definitely should. He has the mixture of size, strength and fitness that many here in TMuscle is looking for/ to build. Here is his link - Forums - T Nation - The World's Trusted Community for Elite Fitness
Fasted morning cardio:
Walked on the treadmill for 1 hour at 3.0 mph and 6.5 incline.
[quote]hawaiilifterMike wrote:
I read a few times that the brain needs some time for it to register that the stomach has food in it/ full. [/quote]
I eat pretty fast also. I’ve heard the number of 20/30 minutes for the ‘lag’ between stomach and brain. For me, honestly, I think it’s closer to 40 minutes. Which is a pain in the ass because waiting it out can take FOREVER.
Mike, I did some serious damage at a buffet last night, and I thought of you, and then I thought “damn, this is really easy to do”. The calorie intake estimate after the fact was a wild guess, but it was at least 2000 easy, mostly meat or salad dressing. I felt some physical discomfort in my gut for the next couple of hours.
I did everything wrong. It had been a long time since I last ate so I was hungry. The buffet was closing soon so I felt “rushed” (I probably would have pushed away a plate if I could have ate 30 minutes slower), and of course, since it was a buffet I was damn well going to get my money’s worth… the cheapness really gets me!
I haven’t bee very hungry at all today, probably because I have several pounds of food in my colon. But it’s make diet compliance much easier!
I hope that buffet was good and you enjoyed yourself. Sometimes when I go to a buffet, I end up saying to myself - “It was not that good” - only large food volume and very little taste!
I think I read on some articles about people who are thin doing what you are doing today (eating less). Many times a thin person at a party or buffet eats a lot and everyone is surprised that they eat so much and maintain their figure. Some claim (I don’t know if this is true or not) that thin people in general, self regulate their food intake better both consciously and unconsciously.
They eat less the next day or so to make up for the fact they overate previously, maybe without even consciously deciding to do so. Unfortunately I am not one of those self-regulated, self controlled people.
After reading this http://chazzweaver.com/site/down-size-me/the-journal/ and other criticisms of Super Size Me movie, I am contemplating the direction I have taken my diet the last few days/week. Should I dirty up my diet again? I don’t know, but I already had a cheat meal (Meal #2) so I am on a slippery slope…
Day 163 of diet 7/17/09 Friday.
Fasted morning cardio:
Walked on the treadmill for 1 hour at 3.0 mph and 6.5 incline.
I mis-numbered my diet days from day 139 - “wrote day 137” instead, so I updated the diet days from day 139 to today day 163. Will post pics on/around day 168 (week 24) as usual every 2 weeks or so. Hoping to see a bigger difference after switching to a slightly more “cleaner” diet, fingers crossed.