October 15, 2012
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Day 1 – 7 and listening to your wife
Wednesday Oct 10- Woke up at 6, got 45 min of walking in with the wifey, bought some toilet paper. Then took one hot rox before heading to work. Since I knew warm water with flax seeds would probably make me gag, I decided to just go with two scoops of protein, one 5gm scoop of leucine and tried to scrap out 2 scoops of superfood but it had kind of solidified. I tried my best and shot it down. Also took 3 tablets of vitamin D, 3 liver cleansing pills and two flameout fish oil pills. Filled up two liter bottle with green tea. Lunchtime I took the same with the flax seeds and I don’t know what it is with milled flax seeds but they just make me gag. Afternoon shake ok. PM Shake warm water… skipped the flax. Suspect that the refrigerator doesn’t work. Make the evening shake to drink on the way home. Realized that I don’t have natural peanut butter but don’t care because the evening shake was making me nauseous… I take 4 fish oil, 3zma’s, 3z12′s before knocking out at around 9ish.
Thursday Oct 11 – Woke up at 545am (jetlag). Took a hotrox and did a quick walk 40 min walk. Got to the office and confirmed that the refrigerator is busted. Used chilled water from wine cooler. No flax seeds. I’m going to skip them. I also like to freeze them after I open the package but since the fridge was busted I’m afraid they’re now spoiled or at the very least a big shady. At night since I cant count on the superfood, I’m taking multivitamin before bed.
Friday – I don’t remember much of this day for some reason…. I’m sure I had 3-4 shakes throughout tho.
Saturday – Woke up, hotrox and 40 min walk around the block. Drink a morning shake and was feeling pretty meh. Was really debating whether I should go to the football game. I really don’t want to but they say they need me and I don’t want to bail on them. Decide to commit but maybe show up a bit later, need to conserve my energy. Drink a shake, start dressing and feeling nauseous again. Take a bathroom break and feel better. Start it up on the football field and it’s clear that the diet and lack of conditioning is messing me up a bit. Simple pulls are making my heart race… sometime in the middle of the 2nd quarter I allowed a defender thru and he and another lineman took out our qb who had to limp off. Took our my frustration on the next play and drove the lineman about 7 yards back but in the process tweaked my back. Decided to call it a day since we were way up and these guys weren’t going to catch up to us. Had to take care of some work issues so didn’t take my final shake until around 9ish. Ate some natural peanut butter from a spoon to hold off the hunger pangs. Took two scoops protein, 4 flameout and 4 multi vitamins before bed. Knocked out.
Sunday – Woke up later around 830. Skipped walk, made shake brought it with me to work meeting. Sipping it in the cab made me nauseous. After work meeting finished up the shake but not feeling so hot. Rested up, got a massage and went to church. Healthy solid meal at Roosevelt Prime that wifey booked for my bday. Was very hungry but determined to savor everything. Ordered the side of seasonal vegetables to start and let me tell you, broccoli has not tasted so good in so long. It was crunchy and seasoned just right. But most importantly I was able to chew. I closed my eyes while I was eating it… half in jest and half because seriously tasted that good. This is what happens when you drink your meals for 5 days, solid food becomes a novelty. Had very small tastings of my wife’s foie gras. Tasty but I like it better when its seared. Shared a medium rare porterhouse between myself and the wife and yum. However they said it was aged and when they showed it to me, it was not aged. Way too red to have been aged 28 days. Didn’t matter, it tasted wonderful to me. However would not recommend it since it seemed overpriced and would have been just ok if I was normal. Have really been thinking about my nausea…. am I allergic? I shouldn’t be but it would really suck to be allergic now. Realized that the tub of protein I’ve been using at home as been expired for 18 months. Look it up on google and apparently casein can go bad (I did not think powder could go bad). Ugh… may need to go off the diet if all the protein I counted on has expired. My wife pointed out the expiration dates a while ago but I ignored her. Whoops!
Monday – Back on the shakes. Have two tubs with no expiration dates and gave it a try. Morning shake with two flameout, 3 vitamin D, 3 liver cleansing pills. Sat down and no nausea. Success! Get home and prepare to hit the gym and realize that there’s no cold water for my workout shake. Put one bottle in the fridge to chill it and will drink it when I come back. Front squats @185# for 5/5/4/3/3 and quickly learned that while I’m strong in the back squat it doesn’t mean anything when front squatting, pulldowns @140# 5/5/4/3/3 (chin up grip) was ok but still feel like I was recovering from the front squats, dumbbell bench press @55# (coudln’t find the 60#) 5/5/5/5 pc of cake but winded. Stumbled home (damn those front squats!) and get on my ab roller (forgot it at home) and did 5/5/5/5. Wiped! A combination of being on no carb for 5 previous days plus strength work with little conditioning has revealed itself in my piss poor shape. Mope around a little bit feeling a little light headed… drink one scoop of surge recovery with chilled water and instantly feel better. Probably due to the water lowering my core body temp since I don’t think i could have digested it that fast. Resolve to chill water and bring the shake to the next workout.
Tues – Shake with two scoops, 1 scoop leucine, 4 flameout, 3 vitamin D, 3 liver cleansing. Legs, lats, abs are a bit tight but feel ok overall but know that it will feel worse later on and maybe on Wednesday. Shake with two scoops protein and 1 scoop leucine for lunch. Two scoop shake for afternoon snack. Have a bday dinner at night and make the mistake of not making a shake to take with me. Was fumbling around with my phone since it went dark all of a sudden. Am starving in the cab and take the time to let the hunger roll over me, calm down but then it comes back. Decide that I will order some veggies to hold me over until I get home but find out that the bday girl has already preordered. Make a deal with the wife to eat some vegetables during dinner with the caveat that she will pick our the portions for me. I chew slowly and drink tea to take off the edge and overall I feel ok. Take 4 flameout, 3zma, 6 bcaa’s with one scoop protein before bed.
