V-Diet 2 : Day 18
May 30, 2008 9:25 am Velocity Diet LogI may as well stop saying how easy this is now.
I went shopping tonight wearing 82cm waist jeans and they fit perfectly. I mean not tight, not loose, perfect to the point of weirdness, it felt weird. Anyway when I bought these jeans about 18 months ago I honestly thought it was a pipe dream. Now I’m 8-9% lower body fat, about the same weight and they fit wickedly.
I made a protein cake for after the diet where I replaced the wholemeal flour with almond meal but it totally flopped. It’s still nice and will be great to eat anyway but I still need to play with the recipe. It has a lot of Splenda in it, but I don’t think it needs that much and I could probably add more protein powder and replace the gluten from the flour with arrowroot or xanthum gum.
Weights were great this morning, I had lots of energy and my pre-walk/weights coffee is a lot better now. I was grinding beans from the local grocery and they were bad so I bought some pre-ground from the local coffee place near work. They are definitely one of the top three coffee places in Perth and while they seperate themselves from the bunch through their milk frothing and texturing abilities the coffee itself is very very good. I’m getting into the texturing myself even though I can’t really use milk at the moment. Soon though!
I feel like the increased sleep and reduced activity overall is really benefiting me and even though I didn’t listen to the reccomendations of the diet and reduce it to weights and walking, I can see why they suggest doing that. I still do a lot more than is recommended but if you are finding it hard to get by day to day then rest is what you need.
I got some Chia seeds to try as a replacement or addition to the flax in my shakes and I have to say they’re pretty great! They don’t have a hard cellulose coating so you don’t need to grind them or buy meal, they just expand a bit when in water and feel a little like small crunchy semolina balls when they’ve soaked a while. Nutritionally they’re better than flax and they have no discernable taste. I’d definitely reccomend them as an addition to flax (maybe 1/2 and 1/2 or something) as I’m not sure about the insoluble and soluble fibre amounts though overall chia is richer in fibre by weight.
No hunger to speak of, no cravings really. All the chocolate and ice cream and everything awesome was on special yesterday (big specials actually) but I wasn’t all that fussed. Instead I was more pleased about wearing my 82cm waist jeans and having them fit perfectly.
So everything is going very smoothly. I have one weights session until day 21. I have a walk setup with a friend on Saturday morning and then I will probably have a leisurely walk or run on Sunday morning and then Sunday night is a big night with friends. It’s a public holiday here and there is a dance event. After that it’s week 4 and I’m looking forward to the home stretch.