Three Week Drive

April 6, 2008 After The Diet, Cheats No Comments

Today was about a cheat day, I ran a 10km fun run over here called The Bridges and met the time I wanted to run quite easily. Given my preparation was absolutely shocking (down to the point of forgetting my running shoes!), I was pretty happy to sneak in under my goal time. As with any fun run there are definitely blockages to running your best time so all in all I was happy.

I don’t like to reward myself with food these days and that’s not what this was, essentially I figured I’d been pushing myself pretty well for the last three months, I was on target and doing well and I had a tough three weeks in front of me to try and meet my goals body-wise. With all of this in mind I made the decision that today would be a cheat day and I would eat a lot of junk food. I can’t say that I missed it really though it was kind of good at the start I definitely bought way more than I could possibly eat.

I put everything into the tracking program I used and it came in at 6500calories for the day. That’s about three times what I normally eat in a day. My thinking behind this is that I’m getting fairly lean and a high calorie day from time to time will be good to push my metabolism up and just shock the body a little bit. Sure I’ll put on a bit of fat and water weight but that’ll all be gone over the next few days.

I’m not going to be doing measurements tomorrow as they’ll be skewed but I’ll be back on task for next week.

I don’t see this as a hump or falling off the wagon as it was completely planned. I now have three weeks in which I’d like to drop 2-3% body fat and really see my abs come through. I see today as a part of that plan rather than a set back.

My eating over the next three weeks will be as strict as humanly possible. I’ll outline the plan soon.