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Gaspari Nutrion Cytolean

I have always been skeptical about ‘fat burning’ products, though I really would love to try an ECA stack but unfortunately in Australia Ephedra and it’s related products are all banned. Given that this is supposed to the the fat burning stack and anything else is just making do I hadn’t given anything any thought.

In my last order I got a sample pack of Cytolean, three (3) capsules in a nice little pack with some instructions to take 1-3 daily. I thought I’d just take one and see if that made any noticeable difference to anything.

On taking the first capsule (and hte capsules are very cool looking) yesterday I did get a noticeable improvement in energy and wasn’t hungry for a good few hours. I ate mainly because I knew I should keep the schedule. This anti-hunger wore off probably about 4-5 hours later. The energy I didn’t really notice wearing off because it was so smooth. I wasn’t jittery and buzzing I just wasn’t at all sleepy or tired. It was more of an anti-tired thing than a pro-energy effect.

This morning I was literally falling asleep in front of the computer, I was dozing off while typing it was that bad so noticing the capsules sitting there I thought this was a good test to see if I got any energy. Within about thirty minutes I was not even remotely tired and I’m actually a little buzzy in my cheeks and feeling a bit like I’ve had too many stimulants, but not in a bad way. I’m not remotely thinking about food I’m having the check the clock to make sure I don’t miss my shake.

I mean I’ll try it again tomorrow but at this point I’m willing to buy a bottle of these to try them out on an extended basis. They’ve definitely turned me around on the topic of fat burners, energy tabs and appetite suppressors.

So I’m sitting here feeling not the least bit tired, having a bit of a buzz and feeling good about things.

I’m rarely comfortable suggesting products where I can’t absolutely say that it works or it’s a good product, I can only say that so far these things are definitely working a magic on me that I didn’t expect. Very glad I got this sample!

V-Diet 2 : Day 3

This was my rest day so I started the day with a coffee, whey protein shake and a 90 minute walk, by the end of this I was already feeling a bit tired. Then I got changed and jumped on the train to work. After work I rode my bike home then I took it easy and got an early night.

The ride seemed easier than usual but I’ll wait for a few more rides to see if it’s the diet or just a once off thing.

Sticking to the diet is proving to be very easy at work and then a little more mentally difficult at home. I haven’t come anywhere close to slipping though. It just means I will probably go out a bit more or get to bed earlier.

So, so far so good and I think I’m already feeling smaller in the waist, legs and chest but we’ll see come mesurements on Sunday.

V-Diet 2 : Day Two

It looks like I totally forgot to post on the second day.

From what I remember I’m feeling fine, I had Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) for 90 minutes tonight which was 60 minutes of training and then about 30 minutes of actual rolling. This took it out of me, but no more than usual.

When I got home I had my shake and then a couple of hours later I had a casein shake with a spoon full of peanut butter and some psyllium. I was super tired at this point and went to bed.

it was strange to notice my desire for foods such as the jar of dates we have at work that I would take a couple of each time I went by. Now out of habit I go to get some and then catch myself. I’m not hungry, I’m just putting stuff in my mouth because it tastes good. I’m slowly overcoming these urges just to have something because it’s there.

Having good protein powder is a godsend. I really, really like the ON Banana Cream Whey and the Vanilla Casein. Mixing the casein (choc or vanilla) makes the Dymatize or Body Ripped stuff bearable.

I increased most of my lifts today or at least stayed level so no drop in performance yet. The pump is definitely less noticeable and my vasularity is way down one before. It’s amazing what a drop in carbs will do.

So still feeling great, but still fighting some bad habits.

V-Diet 2 - Starting Measurements

I’m pretty disappointed with myself but it’s part of the reason I’m doing this again. There was a good four month period of good eating and more importantly a healthy head but that all seems to have been tipped completely arse up lately. The last three weeks have seen me slip deeper and deeper in to the bulimic lifestyle I had before and that needs to stop. I expect to still lose a bit of water weight this week as my carb intake was up last week.

Measurements

Weight : 98.8kg

BF % : 12.9%

Waist : 93.5cm

Hips : 105cm

Thighs : 64cm

Chest : 104cm

Arms : 34.5cm

Moving the Reward Culture Away From Food

I have really gotten into coffee lately and last weekend organised a Cafe Crawl as opposed to a typical Pub Crawl. I don’t drink very often (maybe a beer or two every few months) so this is more my style.

I have been wanting to get a decent coffee grinder for a few weeks, but have also wanted to save some money and would like to be able to justify my purchases from now on. The justification of the grinder has been difficult and so it has remained a want rather than a posession.

Walking to the train station today I thought that at the end of this four weeks when I finish the V-Diet and meet my goals that I will buy the grinder as my reward. I think it’s a great way of moving further away from the food based reward system (though it’s food related, it isn’t food itself) and helping me gain more skills in something I’m passionate about.

So in four weeks time I should be buying a new coffee grinder and enjoying a whole new world of freshly ground coffee at home!

V-Diet 2 : Day 1

Today went pretty easily actually. My delivery of good protein powders hasn’t arrived yet so I’m still working through some Dymatize Elite Whey (gross and bad mixing) and some Body Ripped SPS (bad taste and very bad mixing). I remember the flax being worse than it it, I’m actually enjoying it, I think mixed into a decent chocolate shake it will be nice.

I sat through my first meal tonight, while three of my friends had asian I had some Orange Pekoe tea and a Pepsi Max. I actually didn’t mind at all, really. After that was coffee where I had an espresso and a pot of Marsala Chai without milk.

The problem was I didn’t have anywhere to mix a shake without feeling a bit self conscious about it (something I’ll have to get over!) so I didn’t eat for about six hours and so missed two shakes. I’m having one of them right now and then I’ll have the night time one in about an hour.

One strange thing is the structure of it all has made me completely dismiss options I would have taken before. I realise that out of instinct I was eating things without it being processed as to whether I was hungry or not or whether I liked that particular type of food or not. I noticed this at the restaurant where I had a real urge to eat a piece of tofu or ask someone to try something but I wasn’t actually hungry. It was quite strange.

On arriving home I wasn’t ravenous and while normally my mind would have flicked to something bad like jelly or ice cream or chocolate, I simply mixed a shake and started drinking it. The thought of something bad was just a thought, there was no motivation behind it.

It will be interesting to see how things go in this first week, I think it’ll be the hardest. This diet does really make you consider your eating habits and motivations though and for me that’s a good thing.

I can’t wait to get the Optimum Nutrition powders though at least I can mix this crap stuff with it and get something that tastes half good.

So far so good, no problems, lots of thoughts about how bad my eating had gotten and not hungry.

V-Diet 2 : Start

Let me just say that I have already done a complete run of the Velocity Diet at the beginning of the year and my recollection is that it went pretty smoothly and I handled it quite well. I lost a lot of weight and didn’t follow the activity part of the diet completely but did follow the nutrition side of things strictly. It worked.

Out of it I got an absolute change in my eating habits, my view of myself and other people and a real love again of exercise and nutrition.

It completely destroyed my bad eating habits including my bulimia which I’d had at that stage for about a year. Or so I thought.

For some reason just when things were looking up and I was approaching having some abs and was the lightest and leanest I’d ever been I was bulimic again. Worse than ever. It’s embarassing to lay out exactly what I’m talking about but I think I should just so people know why I’m doing this diet again and how it can help.

I know that in the text books bulimia is a long term thing but I’ve had it before where it was long term for a year or so. I didn’t binge and throw up for about four months or more which was amazing, I even had the ability to eat something bad and not throw it up, I wasn’t just eating good stuff all the time to prevent the purging instinct. I thought I was completely over it. I was starting to like what I saw in the mirror, people were paying me attention. I thought things were going to work out for me. Then for some reason I was planning binges and purges almost every night of the week and sometimes twice a night. How weak am I.

That’s the problem too. Then instead of looking in the mirror and seeing someone that was strong and had made a bunch of great changes and had dieted and exercised to get something he wanted, I saw someone weak and disgusting that couldn’t control himself. Disgust is what I felt about myself and I drowned that in food and so the circle goes. It’s exactly the route I took to obesity and depression.

What am I talking about though, it’s not like I’m eating a Mars bar and throwing that up. I would eat (this embarasses me but so be it) 1L or 2L of ice cream, a bag of biscuits, a block of chocolate and sometimes some other things like some other lollies, a bag of chips something bad. It was so much food that I would feel like I was exploding. So much that I was uncomfortable and it had to come out never mind the control aspect of getting it out to feel better about myself. I would then force myself to throw up in the shower for ten to twenty minutes to purge as much as I could. Brush my teeth, drink a stack of water and fall into a depressed zombie state until bed, sometimes I would just get almost straight into bed as I was so tired from throwing up. That’s what I am talking about, and that would sometimes take place twice a day, usually every night and it happened for the last three weeks where perhaps 3-4 nights I didn’t do this.

How do you rationalize that though? I’m not stupid, some people consider me intelligent, I think that makes it easier in some ways. I felt like seeing bulimia as a problem was simply a social construct and that while it is bad for the majority I was totally in control and could stop any time; because I was smart. In some ways that’s true, in some ways it’s a defense mechanism to allow it to continue. I know I was hurting myself. My skin was shit, I was always tired, I felt shit about myself, depression was settling in and I felt embarassed to be one of those “do as he says, not as he does” people. I hate those people, I hate me.

So I had to stop it. I can’t hate myself, I’ve come too far. I want to be happy with myself and I have the ability to make it happen.

This is where I find myself now.

Last time this diet changed my life more than a lot of people realise. It’s easy to see the physical change but it was a catalyst for a lot of other changes in my life and I found some confidence and some control again. I had some belief that I could achieve what I wanted if I applied myself. I want that back and I know I can get it.

I’m starting this diet again hoping that given the bulimia is only just back and I still like salads and lots of good foods I didn’t before that I will have an easier time of helping me change. I’m hoping that by the end I will have gotten under the 90kg mark and hit a real milestone for me. The main thing I’m looking for though is to get some control back in my life and to be proud of myself again rather than embarassed. I want to be able to be worthy of the praise I receieve from people rather than it be a sham.

Let’s see how I do.

Measurements

These are from last Monday, I just forgot to post them. I’m actually the lightest I’ve ever been and it feels good. I reckon 3-4kg would put me at a level of leanness I’d be happy with. That’s why I’m going to do another V-Diet run, some weight loss and some habit re-adjustments.

Measurements :

Weight : 92.6kg

BF % : 10.4%

Waist : 86.5cm

Hips : 100.0cm

Thighs : 62.0cm

Arms : 33.0cm

I’ll be changing my measuring day to Sunday morning from now on as it’ll be the day I have my solid meal and generally the day when I will end up having a few carbs when not on the V-Diet. I tend to have a decent breakfast after running on Sunday and then have some healthy carbs in the afternoon.

So V-Diet here we come!!

Body Ripped SPS

Just an update, this is a really bad product. I’ve been using it consistently since I got it just to get through it as quickly as possible; it’s not worth the difference in price between this and the ON products.

Mixability is shockingly bad, you can’t cook with it, flavour is bad.

Give it a big miss.

Another Velocity Diet Run

I’ve been steadily losing fat and gaining muscle since my last run of the velocity diet but I have picked up a few bad habits to go along with my good habits too. I’m still eating lots of veges and salads and my meals are almost always good but I’m also having a bit of bad food on the side and the carb sources aren’t as good as they could be when having a bit of a cheat.

I’m going to use the Velocity Diet to try and remove some of the bad habits and bolster the good food habits I got last time.

To that end I ordered the required protein powder today and will buy the necessary flax seeds and peanut butter on Thursday night. Then I’ll weigh in on Sunday morning before running and start the diet on Monday morning.

So, the next V-Diet log will be running from 11th of May 2008 and will go as long as I think is necessary. I’d like to do at least 21 days to try and get rid of the bad habits again so at that point another week isn’t any issue.

This week I will probably be a bit easier on the restrictions of food but nothing crazy.

It’s going to be interesting to see if things are much different this time around.