Well, I think I lost all the extra water weight and whatnot. With all the dairy this morning, and mowing grass for an hour, in the hot sun, I had a great, and painful, “Cleansing”. I was 154 this morning, wearing nothing. Now I’m 153, wearing all my clothes, that are also sweaty. I’d say my clothes are at least a pound maybe 1.5 to 2 lbs with the sweat, so I lost 2-3 pounds at minimum. Im right about where I should be weight wise, at 151-152. Plus the long endurance training the last 3 days I’m sure had an effect.
Waist/stomach looked smaller too.
Lunch:
1.5 cups spaghetti
4 oz chicken
1 oz cheddar cheese
----Total: 694 Kcal, 29g fat, 61g carbs, 44g protein.
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Pre workout snack:
Soft granola bar (They could have made something similar to it in medieval times)
0.8 cup milk (the rest of the carton)
Redbeet hardboiled egg, 2 whites, 1 yolk
A sliver of beet.
Post Workout Snack:
2.25 oz Rice-a-roni (they had rice and seasoning and butter so this is ok)
1 cup grape juice
----Total: 724 Kcal, 17g fat, 122g carbs, 25g protein
Did workout. 2 minute rest is definitely superb. Also, Im not sure if it was just the backpack being rough on my shoulders, but I see more stretch marks on my chest. very red. That means there’s muscle growth (or just skin damage, one of the two, or both possibly).
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I saw he just completed a 1000-something miles trek but did not know he was doing it using indigenous food sources. Awesome! I’ll look into it.
@ZMFitness how are you liking the SE circuits in Base Building? Are you psyching up for week 5 (3x50 circuit)?
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psyching up for week 5 (3x50 circuit)?
The circuits are great. Dips are very challenging, only can do about 8-10 in a row. I definitely am a bit weaker with pushups, but I get them all in a row. I should get back stronger though. The rest of the exercises are pretty easy.
50 reps… Gonna be really tough. I hope I can get all the pushups in a row for one of the sets, at least.
I have a goal. I need to become completely independent of the internet. This, Google classroom/docs/sheets/etc, calorie tracker, and a very few select websites are the only ones I’m allowing. I wont use Google search at all, nor any search engine. If I want to know something I can look in a book. My primary focus is against ‘AI’, especially ch@+gp+ (call me paranoid, but I’m censoring the name so the computer can’t see that I’ve mentioned it here. plus signs represent a ‘t’)
Dinner:
1 Fried Chicken Breast
1 Fried Chicken Thigh
1 Fried Chicken wing
6 potato wedges
1 cup orange juice
----Total: 982 Kcal, 49g fat, 66g carbs, 66g protein
Still about 100 Calories left, so Il treat myself to something
1/3 cup vanilla ice cream- 160 Kcal, 10g fat, 14g carbs, 2g protein
TOTAL: 3473 Kcal, 145g fat, 374g carbs, 195g protein
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July 4 W1D5- Recovery day
Today’s assignments:
Mow Neighbors lawn
Sew 1 row of squares for Blanket
Work on area across creek (big plans, gotta move some stuff and shovel the dirt make stuff even. Gonna build a church/gym for myself) Bushcraft is fun
Anyone a fan of bushcraft stuff? If so, what should I use. I have access to natural clay (iron rich if that matters), and a bunch of stone. How can I make a form of mortar, so i can build a stone house. I have an idea for a system I will use to make the walls
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Breakfast
2 eggs
1 everything bagel
1/4 cup shredded cheese
1 cup whole greek yogurt
3/4 tbsp honey
1/2 cup protein granola (not eating this again. Its so sweet its sickening)
3/4 cup milk
Total: 1109 Kcal, 42g fat, 122g carbs, 66g protein.
Big breakfast to fuel the work I plan on doing today.
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trying to find videos on YouTube, I searched “How to build stone house bushcraft”. Almost all of it is AI generated, Clickbait, or I know its not gonna show me “How” to build one. Looks like I will be doing it on my own. Good thing I have a plan.
The Internet is gone. its beyond repair.
Soon enough, I am leaving the internet, including this. For the sake of trust, I will continue to document my journey on here, until December 31, 2025, or until I urgently must leave entirely. No longer does much time remain on here.
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Lunch:
1 fried chicken breast
1 cup orange juice
1 protein granola bar
6 small danish butter cookies
----Total: 861 Kcal, 36g fat, 88g carbs, 49g protein
Snack
2 slices protein “bread”
1 tbsp butter
8 bread and butter sweet pickle chips
1/2 cup protein granola
1/5 cup cashews
----Total: 659 Kcal, 36g fat, 63g carbs, 29g protein
Did all tasks for the day.
Im going to be helping my friend/neighbor (8 years old) get strong/jacked. I know he isn’t really gonna get muscles like me, at least not until he’s like 13-14, and I told him this, but I’m sure he will be good improvements. Current exercises I’ve taught him:
Bench press with a long 2x4 or rock
Overhead press with a small log thing (1ft long, 6 inch diameter sounds about right) or rock
Bicep curls with 2x4 or rock
Squat with rock
Bent over row, with 2x4 or rock.
Writing this out makes me laugh. Were using sticks and stones to work out, lol. He looks up to me I think. I gotta train him right. He can almost do a pushup which is good, of course he is only like 60 something pounds. He is pretty fit also, since he plays soccer at school.
Any advice I should give him?
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I think research indicates that kids that have not hit puberty yet should not lift to failure.
That would be my only concern.
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Dinner: (Went to local community days (I guess it is a carnival)
1 slice pizza
1 fried chicken thigh (this was at home, along with juice)
1 cup orange juice
1 oz cotton candy
Total: 664 Kcal, 22g fat, 87g carbs, 29g protein
Days total: 3292 Kcals (with the activities I’ve done during the day, I still need almost 300 more calories), 136g fat, 359g carbs, 174g protein
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July 5rd, W1D6
45 minute run today. This will be rough. Oh well. Christ strengthens me.
Breakfast:
2 eggs
1/4 cup shredded cheese
1 cup whole milk Greek yogurt
1/2 cup granola
a bit of honey
----Total:689 Kcal, 37g fat, 44g, carbs 49g, protein
Kept it light today for my run.
Assignments:
None. Saturday and Sunday have no assignments.
What I will probably do today:
Make more outdoor gym stuff for the 8yr old next door
-finding rocks
-Finish making the wood barbell
-Engrave equipment with lbs, and whatnot
-Make a stand for the stuff
Today I get to pick blueberries at my uncle’s house. I gotta make myself like them. I like the flavor, its more of a textural thing that I dont like.
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22 minute run. I wanted to go longer than that but i needed to use the bathroom.
I think I will adjust my running times for the next weeks. I was going to do 40 minutes next week, but i think Il do 30 minutes. Slowly work my way up.
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Was very busy didn’t get to track my Calories or macros. I didn’t get enough I’m sure,
July 6nd, W1D7 Rest day
1 week done! I’m happy with what I got to do this week. 20% done with the first 5 weeks, then I get to move onto the last 3 weeks of base building which has some lifting.
Today’s breakfast:
3 eggs
1/4 cup shredded cheese
1/3 cup whole fat Greek yogurt
a drizzle of honey
some cotton candy (I tried making cotton candy Greek yogurt. Didn’t work, didn’t want to put a super large amount in)
1 cup orange juice
----Total: 605 Kcal, 28g fat 54g carbs 34g protein
Man, that’s not a lot.
Today after I get dishes done, I plan on working more on the stone equipment.
I have thus so far:
a 4.5lb stone
a 7.5lb stone
an 8 lb stone
a 13 lb stone
and an 18lb stone
I’m thinking I should add a few more, like 6lbs, 10lbs, and 15lbs. Any suggestions? Should I have a few heavier stones?
Excited for tomorrow. AP exam scores will be released. I think i did pretty well.
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Lunch:
2 slices protein “bread”
4 oz ham
1.25 oz mozzarella
some mushrooms
1 cup 2% milk
1 oz cotton candy (I wanted to make cotton candy milk. I know what cotton candy flavor is. Strawberry Nesquik!)
----Total: 607 Kcal, 23g fat 52g carbs 51g protein
I Put marker in the engravings of the rocks to make the symbols stand out. I weighed the wood barbell: Its perfect. Its 4.5 lbs. 1/10 of a standard barbell. So convenient. If I make weights, I just gotta scale it down a factor of 10. 0.5lb, 1lb, 2.5lb, and 4.5 lb plates. Wonderful. I think they might actually be roughly the same size too. I have a 1 pound circle of wood from some old project I scrapped. Its about the same size as a 10lb plate.
I might think about making dumbbells.
What other equipment should I make for the kiddo?
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I must begin to move things into paper from here. Calorie log will soon be in paper, and then I will type it in here. That removes one of the 4 tabs I use every day. I can eliminate one tab now, since I have already written everything on it that needs to be written. Google sheets then I will have to write up. Shouldn’t be too hard.
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This endurance training really does work. I took a hike, and normally Im breathing pretty heavy since its a steep hill. Not this time, pretty easy, although I did stop to pick some wineberries to eat. I have a lot more energy, I’m happy I’m doing this.
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