V-Diet 2 : Day 13
May 25, 2008 7:17 pm Velocity Diet LogI got home this morning at about 5am and decided to stay up until I was completely exhausted rather than going to bed a bit hyper. I had a cup of tea (black) and a shake then hit the sack around 6:30am.
I woke up at about 8:30, 10, 11:30 and then decided to stay in bed and read a bit. It was good that it was overcast and rainy so there wasn’t any real reason to go outside or enjoy the day. I didn’t feel bad or anything it just made it easier to sleep and finish my book. Freakonomics was the book and I’d reccomend it to anyone, it was a very easy read and very interesting!
Anyway I remember the weekends always used to bother me because I’d get worried I’d be sitting around doing nothing and therefore lapse into old behaviours but it was never a problem. It seems the worry isn’t warranted again this time either.
This morning on the way home from the club I was definitely a little sad and underwhelmed with life but I just grit my teeth and worked through it. I think it’s just coming down from the high of being around so many people, wicked music and good fun and then you’re surrounded by nothing and it’s quiet and your life feels quite lame. The thought did go through my mind to grab some ice cream and drown my sorrows but I fought this and ended up just having my shake in the car on the way home and then drinking a stack of water. This fixed everything and given I hadn’t eaten in 6 hours and had been dancing a fair chunk of that time it may well have just been hunger and dehydration.
I concentrated today on getting a stack of water into me and keeping my shakes on schedule and I think I did a good job of it.
Given the activity yesterday with it being leg day and dancing for a fair chunk of time my legs are pretty destroyed today. I’m hoping that just resting will put me in a good position for a decent run tomorrow. I did want to do a half marathon in about 4 weeks but that’s probalby not going to happen. However by that time I’ll have been on reasonably normal food for a week and be able to train a bit so it may well be on the cards. At least for the next two weeks it’s not possible to train effectively I’d just be doing more harm than good.
I’m going to waste some time this afternoon by going to the shops and having a walk around. I think I have everything I need for my HSM tomorrow but I will double check.
Looking forward to weighing in tomorrow. I’m feeling leaner and the shirt I wore last night was a bit tight last weekend but fit well this week!
While I was at the shops I got some squash and a sweet potato for the HSM tomorrow and I was looking for some chilli and wholegrain mustard. I found some Sambal chilli paste and wow is it hot! However opposite this stuff was all the chocolates and stuff and I found myself looking at the two for the price of one special for the big blocks of chocolate and thinking that I should by some but not use it until after the diet. Then I thought if I want some after the diet I’ll just buy some, I don’t need two and I don’t actually want chocolate anyway. It’s just habits coming back to haunt me. I also had a good, hard look at the sugar free lollies but decided they’re still empty calories I don’t need or want. In reality I had no craving for this stuff anyway. Just habits that are being broken.
So I’ll be going out again tonight, it’s a friend’s birthday and so we’re going to go to karaoke. The start of it is an all you can eat and drink banquet for $38, given that I don’t really like crappy asian food normally (I do like good asian food though!) or booze at the moment I didn’t see much point to being there for that but I will be joining them for the karaoke portion. Without the drinking though it may be very difficult to handle. It might end up being a very early night!
I ended up getting home about 11:30 then changing for bed and deciding to stay up a bit until I was tired, then I got a message asking if I was awake and could I do a favour for a friend… pick her up from a hotel about 30mins drive from me and drop he home. So I did, I ended up talking to her fiance for a while and getting home around 6am on Sunday and getting to bed.