July 2011
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Is the dream dead?
Hell no.
Moving blog...
Hello,
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I’ll keep this blog online for archival reasons, but it...
Workout: Thursday
Back to the gym.
Obliterated the recent malaise. Feeling great.
boxing skills stuff
boxing circuit
Eaten Today: Thursday
Lunch
some apple slices
2 eggs scrambled
1 glass berocca drink
Snack
1 mug chai
4 slices of apple
Snack
1 glass smoothie with coconut milk
Snack (Post workout)
1 glass smoothie with coconut milk
Dinner
steamed veggies
peas curry
kidney bean curry
1 glass smoothie
Snack
some nuts
Tuesday: Meh
Title sums it up really.
Skipped the gym. Went off plan in terms of nutrition.
Really struggling with things at the moment.
Eaten Today: Wednesday
Breakfast
1 bowl of fruit and nuts
Lunch
2 egg omlette with onions, green chillies and cheese
1 glass of berocca drink
Added cheese to the omlette in a bid to liven things up. Didnt have as much effect as I hoped. Meh.
Snack
1 mug chai
1 white bread roll buttered
1 glass smoothie
Dinner
steamed veggies
okra curry
peas curry
1 rotli
dahl
yoghurt
Snack
1 bowl fruit + nuts
Eaten Today: Tuesday
Lunch
1 glass berocca drink
2 egg whites scrambled
Snack
1 bowl of cherries
handful of nuts
Snack
1 small plate of bhajias
1 mug chai
Snack
more bhajias
water
Dinner
steamed veggies
dahl
yoghurt
okra curry
1 glass berocca drink
Snack
1 bowl of cherries
water
Late Night Snack
1 white bread roll with butter + cheese + tomato puree
1 granary roll with butter + cheese + tomato...
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do...”
– Mark Twain (via theroadtoslimcity)
Encouraging Words, Perfectly Timed
So the last week or so I have been feeling pretty apathetic about the whole weight loss thing. You can see that reflected most dramatically in my diet over the weekend. Yes, I started eating cake again.
Today I didnt even feel like going to the gym, but I figured I would enjoy it once I got there, so forced myself to go. And I did enjoy it, although I found the session tougher than normal, and...
Workout: Monday
Boxing skills training (about an hour)
Boxing circuit (about another hour)
Found training a lot tougher today. No idea why.
Eaten Today: Monday
Lunch
scrambled eggs (1 whole egg + 2 egg whites)
1 glass berocca drink
Snack
1 bowl of cherries
Snack
1 mug chai
some nuts
Dinner
steamed veggies
dahl
some potato curry
1 glass berocca drink
yoghurt
Snack
1 bowl of fruit and nuts
“Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.”
– Buddha (via eddoeslife)
Eaten Today: Sunday
Breakfast
1 glass of Orange and Pineapple juice
2 slices of wholemeal bread toast with butter
Lunch
2 poodla (Indian pancake things) with yoghurt
1 can diet coke
Snack
1 slice of chocolate cake
Snack
1 mug chai
1 bowl of tortilla chips and salsa
5 pieces of dark chocolate
Dinner
pau baghi with about 4 buttered, toasted white bread rolls
ketchup
1 can diet coke
Snack
1 bowl fruit...
“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.”
– Napolean Hill (via eddoeslife)
1 tag
Weigh In: Plateau?
Pretty much no change at all from last week. Body fat % crept up.
I’m struggling to get out of the 180s.
Next week I need to tighten up the diet I think.
Date Weight(lbs) Body Fat% TBW%
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03 Oct '09 196 30.9 50
10 Oct '09 198.8 30.4 50.1
31 Oct '09 203.4 30.4 50.1
07 Nov '09 200.9 ...
Eaten Today: Saturday
Lunch
6 pieces of french bread pizza
1 diet coke
Snack
1 can diet coke
8 pieces of chocolate
1 piece of chocolate cake
2 bowl of crisps
1 glass of water
Dinner
2 glass coconut milk milkshake (banana, pineapple juice)
a load of garlic bread and salad
1 big plate of pasta + tomato sauce
some nuts
Late Night Snack
1 slice cake
1 bowl crisps
1 mug milk
5 pieces of chocolate
Workout: Friday
A bit different today. We started off with a load of flexibility and medicine ball work as the warm up.
Then we did some brutal running thing on the treadmills. We had two treadmills, and two teams of 2 or 3 people. Our group had to clock up 3K between us, running flat out (maximum speed on the treadmill) as long as we could. When we couldnt keep running at maximum pace on the treadmill we...
Eaten Today: Friday
Lunch
some apple slices
2 eggs scrambled
some olives (3)
1 glass berocca drink
Snack
1 mug chai
some apple slices
Dinner
1 glass coconut milk milkshake (banana, pineapple juice, some nuts, coconut milk)
2 plates of peppers, jalepeno, beans stir fry with some mango salsa and some cheese
Late Night Snack
1 glass coconut milk milkshake (pineapple juice, coconut milk)
1 plates of...
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Meditation & Final thoughts for the day
Yep I finally got back on the wagon. Did 30 minutes of meditation which was suitably “difficult”. Now I need to keep this up every day. Ideally a 30 minute session in the morning and another 30 minute session in the evening. Or just a 45 minute session, once a day.
My nutrition today has been pretty off plan. A load of carbs throughout the whole day. I’m having trouble sleeping...
Just writing the last post has made me feel a lot better.
Uncannily so in fact.
Realized today would be a fantastic day to resume my meditation practice.
Revelation
And suddenly the reason of my malaise comes into sharp focus in my thoughts.
I guess writing about your moods does help you understand them.
Admitting to yourself you feel lonely sucks.
Did I mention how great a burrito sounds about right now?
Depressed
No idea where this has come from.
Feeling like I’ll never achieve my goals and kind of angry about some things.
Have been fighting the urge to comfort eat all afternoon.
Might go to Chipotle again and have a burrito for dinner.
Decided earlier today not to train tonight because I am pretty tired and want to be fresh for tomorrows bootcamp workout. Wish I had trained after all -...
Eaten Today: Thursday
Breakfast
2 scrambled eggs
1 glass berocca drink
2 slices of wholemeal toast (buttered)
1 banana
Lunch
Vegetarian burrito bowl (from Chipotle)
Bottle of water
Snack
2 black americano
Dinner
1 veggie burrito (with sour cream, guar and cheese)
tortilla chips and salsa
1 can diet coke
Snack
cherries and a peach
Eaten Today: Wednesday
Breakfast
2 eggs scrambled
1 glass berocca drink
1 glass of coconut water.
Lunch
1 burrito (with cheese and some guac)
1 bottle of water
Snack
1 black americano
Snack
3 pieces of coconut
1 mug chai
Dinner
1 glass of coconut milk milkshake (peach, strawberries, pineapple juice)
1 glass of pineapple juice
steamed veggies
peas curry
Late Night Snack
1 can diet coke
Workout: Tuesday
Today’s workout was brutal.
Here is just some of what went down:
running (sprinting drills) at the park
Back to the gym for a circuit of death, including:
burpees
bastardos
squat thrusts
alternating squat thrusts
boxing stuff
the “tennis game” (with a medicine ball obviously)
kettle bells work
Tomorrow is a rest day. I goddamned earnt it today.
Goddamnit Corpsicle
corpsicle:
Weigh in 88.6kg
No workout ( maybe running later )
Food:
Breakfast
Fibre oatmeal
Low-fat milk
Banana
Linseeds
Psylliumseeds
Whey protein
Your nutrition makes me feel like a failure.
Eaten Today: Tuesday
Breakfast
2 glasses of strawberry milkshake (strawberries, milk, some fruit juice)
1 wholemeal roll buttered
Snack
1 nectarine
Lunch
2 egg omlette
1 glass berocca drink
Snack
1 mug chai
1 wholemeal roll buttered
Dinner
steamed veggies
mug dhal
some peas curry
1 glass berocca drink
Snack
1 bowl of melon
Snack
1 apricot
Workout: Monday
Boxing skills training stuff
Boxing circuit
Eaten Today: Monday
Breakfast
a tiny bit of banana and coconut milk milkshake
Why a tiny bit? Why not even half a glass?
Because after making said milkshake in the new blender, I spilt the whole goddamned thing everywhere trying to get the jug off said blender.
…
FAIL is me.
Lunch
2 egg omlette
1 glass berocca drink
1 apple
Snack
1 mug chai
Dinner
steamed veggies
mug dhal
1 glass berocca...
Eaten Today: Sunday
Lunch
2 pieces of quiche
1 can diet coke
Snack
1 mug chai
some apple slices
2 slices of apple tart with whipped cream
1 bowl of tortillas
Snack
10 sitck biscuit things
Dinner
2 plates of oven chips
baked beans
ketchup
salad
1 can diet coke
Snack
1 bowl of cherries
1 plate of oven chips
ketchup
a load of chocolate stick biscuit things
1 tag
Weigh In: Dodged a Bullet
This past week I have struggled a little bit with nutrition, but didn’t make any major transgressions until yesterday. Last night I missed a gym session due to travel issues, got home and suddenly thought to myself: “You know what would be fun? Just to eat and eat and eat lots of tasty food,”.
Cue eating lots of chaat, and drinking lots of diet coke. That wasnt the end of it of...
Eaten Today: Saturday
Lunch
2 pieces of stuffed pepper (stuffed with cheese and tomato)
2 glasses of coconut milkshake (strawberry, banana, coconut milk, some fruit juice)
Snack
100ml Haagen Daz Strawberry & Cheesecake icecream
Snack
1 mug chai
a load of purees and gatia
Dinner
1 can diet coke
2 plates of pasta with a tomato sauce (+ some cheese sprinkled on top)
some garlic bread
Snack
1 bowl of...
Workout: Friday - NO SHOW
So I tried to get to the gym.
Then I got stuck on the tube, so that I would have been late for the class.
So I went home.
And thus began the evening of gluttony….
Eaten Today: Friday
Lunch
2 eggs scrambled
baked beans
1 glass berocca drink
Snack
1 mug chai
1 banana
Dinner
3 plates of chaat
1 can diet coke
1 banana
Snack
1 plate of chaat
diet coke
1 goddamned ice cream
Today went horribly, horribly wrong once I missed my gym session.
Late Night Snack
some chaat
another goddamned icecream
Workout: Thursday
I have had a pretty crappy day today. One of those day’s where everything you attempt runs into some lame setback that slows you down.
I was considering not hitting the gym at one point. Hell, I almost forgot my gym kit when I left the house today (yes I had to go back and get it). But I went… and I feel great now.
Here is what went down:
about an hour of boxing skills work. I...
Eaten Today: Thursday
Breakfast
2 eggs scrambled
1 apple
some nuts
1 glass of coconut water
Lunch
1 burrito (grilled peppers, brown rice, salsa, cheese)
1 bottle of water
Snack
1 black americano
Dinner
1 glass berocca drink
steamed veggies
dahl
cauliflower and peas curry
Snack
1 bowl of mango and some nuts
Self-sabotage
So its 1:57am.
I am sitting here eating a wholemeal bread roll with butter and a glass of OJ.
Why have I started late night snacking again?
It’s not stress. I think I am just getting complacent and bored. Definitely need to shake up the nutrition and add some variety to the mix.
Eaten Today: Wednesday
Breakfast
2 eggs scrambled
kidney beans, peppers stir fry
1.5 glasses of coconut milk milkshake (banana, strawberry, coconut milk)
A big breakfast for a change. I really should lay off that coconut milk though
Snack
1 cappucino
Late Lunch
1 burrito (with a bit of cheese in it)
water
Snack
1 black americano
1 glass of OJ
Dinner
steamed veggies
potato curry
dhaal
beans curry
...
Workout: Tuesday
In the gym this time for a circuit of death featuring:
kettle bell swings and lifts
squats, burpees, and other assorted bodyweight torture
squat jump things (absolutely destroying)
some heavy bag work
a bit of running on treadmills
“the tennis game” thing with a medicine ball and press ups as penalties. Awesome fun.
medicine ball throws
And probably a few other things...
Eaten Today: Tuesday
Breakfast
2 eggs scrambled
1 glass of fruit juice
some nuts
Lunch
2 eggs scrambled
1 wholemeal bread roll
1 glass berocca drink
Lunch was uninspired. I really need to get round to looking at more recipe ideas. And getting some protein shake stuff.
Dinner
kidney beans, peppers, onion
some potato curry
some kitheri
water
some strawberries
Snack
1 glass coconut milk milkshake...
A Creep and a Blown cover: Privacy & Blogs →
I’ve written this post fifty times, all from different angels. There’s a post saved in my drafts where I drop the F-bomb about thirty times, and then another one where I’m all vague about why I stopped blogging for a bit.
But here’s the truth.
I found out Boy- Roommate, who shall never be…
This is an interesting situation in a whole load of ways. I left a reply on your blog, but I...
Workout: Monday
Back in the gym for a boxing training circuit. We even got to do some more sparring skills stuff before the circuit began. Good fun.
“Your biggest challenge isn’t someone else. It’s the ache in your lungs and the...”
– (via poeticheartache) (via pinkeezy) (via downsizing)
Eaten Today: Monday
Lunch
some puree and sev
2 egg omlette (onion, green chillies)
1 berocca drink
Snack
1 mug chai
Dinner
steamed veggies
dhal
cauliflower curry
2 glasses of fruit juice
Snack
2 pieces of French bread buttered
1 glass coconut milk + strawberries
Back to it
So the weekend was pretty much a massive blow out.
And last week was not great in terms of number of workouts or nutrition.
Time to get back to it then.
Eaten Today: Sunday
Lunch
2 cheese and tomato sandwiches (wholemeal bread)
1 glass berocca drink
Snack
3 scoop of Ben and Jerrys Icecream
Snack
2 feta cheese and spinach pastry thing
some salad
1 diet coke
1 glass fruit juice
Dinner
paneer, pepper + onion kebabs
channa kebabs
1 can diet coke
ambli and lili chutney