June 16, 2004
Hump day already?
Wow this week is going fast... but I guess that's what happens when you take Monday off... Boot Camp was BRUTAL today... lots of cardio outside in the sun... sprints, running lines on the soccer field, and lots and lots of stairs. The resistance part was all upper body with pushups(incline/flat/decline), bar pulls(close grip and wide grip both over and underhand), bicep curls, rows, wheelbarrows, shoulder presses, more pushups, etc... It was a fun class tho, and now Linn is off for a week and a half in Jamaica!!! (bastard). I asked him in class if he'd packed yet, and his response was "not really, but come on, what do I need? A pair of shorts and a tank top and I'm set!" (bastard).
I can't wait till the boys are old enough to go on real vacations... I know they'd love Disney (of course) and Yellow Stone and such... but I really want to take them to Hawaii and other places tropical as well... some of my fondest memories are of family vacations.
*sigh*
In any case the dietary planning is in full force and while I am able to ditch the alcohol for four good weeks, I can't impose that restriction on my young (24) single (and hot!) friend who spends many a friday and saturday night carousing with her other young (early 20s) single (and hot!) friends. The dietary changes will be based around a protein/carb ballance with a low fat intake (hey, its the only thing I HAVEN'T tried, so why not, right?) but I will be making sure to get my fats from FABULOUS sources like olive oil, nuts, nut butters and the like. Details on Sunday as I said before.
I know that I just have to keep going.
It is my life now... I LOVE LOVE LOVE working out, running, exercising, etc... I do! Its the constant dietary dilligence (because there is so much readily available CRAP to consume that it comes at you at every moment and from every angle and makes even the strongest of wills crack once in a while) that tires me out more than anything.
But hey... I'm an 8... I'm a happy, healthy, fabulous size 8 and that's good enough for me!
Posted by Lexy at June 16, 2004 02:18 PM
Comments
Ah yes, calcium... that is also on the list along wtih omega3s... my suplements will need their own organizational carrying case! And yes, white lumpy stuff is nummy!
(P+C? P+F?)
Posted by: brenna on 06/16/04 @ 03:47 PM
Protein plus Carbohydrates (taking advantage of the nutrient transport provided by insulin to aid hypertrophy)
Protein plus Fats (the necessity of circulating fatty acids means you *have* to have fats in your diet...but combining them with protein allows slower digestion, and without the insulin pump to push them into fat cells, they stay circulating for the liver to convert them to aldesterone and along the chain)
Posted by: Jim (a.k.a. the Mighty Slug of Thunder) on 06/17/04 @ 09:13 AM
Are you going to crank up the calcium intake as well? (several recent studies, at least one not funded by the milk industry show it to be helpful to lipolysis), and (hypertrophy guy talking, now) if you're calorie-deficient, are you likely to be trying slow-digesting protein at bedtime to stave of catabolism? IIRC, you eat the lumpy white stuff, which would solve both simultaneously...
(P+C morning, P+F afternoon?)
Posted by: Jim (a.k.a. the Mighty Slug of Thunder) on 06/16/04 @ 02:30 PM