Day 39
February 14, 2008 10:30 pm Velocity Diet LogSleep
I was up last night working again so I ended up getting about four hours of sleep. I am really feeling run down right now and am keeping the nutrition tight to try to not get weak.
Exercise
Today is BJJ and with so little sleep I decided to catch the train in this morning rather than riding.
I had heaps of energy at BJJ and there wasn’t any match where I felt drained at the end of it except perhaps one, but the guy is a good 25kg or more heavier than me. I think the weight reduction has helped me move a bit better and I definitely feel like I’m rolling better than before I lost the weight.
I am sore though, so I have made sure to get protein in before and after BJJ and will get good, long sleep tonight.
Solid Meals
Today I had for lunch some minced chicken breast tossed through a big salad of lettuce, sprouts, tomato and red onion with some salad dressing. All up it was 290 calories for 46, 11, 8 PCF but with only 3g of fibre.
Dinner was brussel sprouts, cabbage, tomatoes and celery with some balsamic and 150g of lean red meat. It came to 280 calories split into 37, 20, 8 PCF with 9g being fibre.
All up today I had almost 70g of non fibrous carbs.
General
Work has been pretty mad lately and I’ve been working all hours of the night, drinking lots of coffee and eating lots of caffeine. It’s not good, but it’s basically over now. I can get back to a normal sleeping pattern and reduce the amount of caffeine I am taking in, I think it may be a contributing factor to any constipation I might be having as I feel constantly dehydrated even though I’m drinking plenty of water.
My energy levels are good all things considered, but I’ll be aiming to get in a good 10 hours or more of sleep tonight so that I can do a good weights session in the morning and have fun rolling tomorrow evening with Royce Gracie at our club. It’ll be great fun so I don’t want to be unprepared or tired.
Eating healthy is so easy now because I had the motivation to do it and now the benefits are obvious, so it’s really as to continue the pattern. Put good stuff in, get good stuff out. I’m eating more veges in a day now than I would’ve in three previously and fresh too rather than frozen. I’m eating less meat in a serving but probably more overall, but it’s all good, lean meat. I’m enjoying my food now, it’s tasty and I know it’s good for me and I can eat pretty well as much as I want of most veges.
I accidentally left myself without whey at home (it’s all at work) so I have just enough to have some before I work out tomorrow plus an egg white omelette. Then after I ride to work I’ll down some there. Oh well, you can’t do it perfectly.
I bought a bunch of great food tonight because I’ll be starting to eat three or four solid meals a day. I didn’t buy any bread or grains but I did buy some multigrain oats and some milk which I’ll use on work out days and the occasional coffee or desert. I also bought a salad spinner and a big bowl for work so that I can more easily make salads and eat the stack of food I usually do for lunch.
So everything is honky dory, lots of energy and I just need to sleep to let my body recover. I ‘m happy to have control over my eating again and being moving in a solid, forward direction!