Morning… 159.6. If anyone wants to stick their nose in here and share thoughts on food type & quantity, I’d be appreciative. These weird stalls… I don’t know if I’m eating a bit over, or a bit under (which is an old problem). 🙂
Food!
Breakfast? (1:20PM): Half of a handful of cashews, two eggs and 3.5 slices of bacon.
Snack: half-handful of cashews.
Dinner: Bacon & egg cheeseburger (burger with one thin slice of cheddar, three small strips of bacon, and one medium-fried egg on top, wrapped in a pair of lettuce leaves). 😀 It was tasty. (Although the (new?) waiter either missed the NO BUN part or the cook did, and it had mayo on it, which is disgusting to begin with – it was very thinly spread, and the little on my food was obvious and entirely scrapeable. 🙂 ) Also had one small side dish of fruit, mostly melon (four grapes and a couple of bites of pineapple).
Late: A few more cashews after the last oil tabs. 😛
Workout!
Warmup: Ladder drills, with 10’s in between… 10 squats, 10 pushups, 10 situps, 10 squats.
Strength: Front Squats. 5 – 5 – 5 straight set @ 80% of a 1 rep max.
I’d left my logbook here at home, so guesstimated. I used 39.6kg for all three sets, after a few warm-up sets at 15 and 25. These were rough, especially the last two reps of the latter two sets. Got my elbows up more, though. 🙂
(I checked here at home, and way back on 7.15 I PR’d FS at 45k. I missed it last time around, and have more recently gotten 40 for 3, so I think this was a good guesstimate. 80% of my 45 would have been 36k, so this was maybe a touch high, but do-able. 🙂 )
WOD:
“Kalsu”
Kalsu as written…Every minute, on the minute, complete 5 burpees followed by 135# (men’s Rx) thrusters. Continue until 100 thrusters is reached.
Yeah.
Ours was
- 5 burpees on the minute, every minute
- Thrusters at 40% of your 1RM Push Press
- reach 100 total thrusters
So I scaled to 3 burpees per round, 15k thrusters.
Clocking in at a respectable 15:44 was pretty nifty today. 🙂 Kalsu thoroughly kicked my @$$… I stood back up after the final thruster (one last set of 7) and my legs were not wanting to continue to hold me up, so I hit the floor.
Last time we hit Kalsu I’d started out with 3 burpees per round, 20k thrusters, and THAT was a disaster. I dropped to 2 burpees per round somewhere about 40, and switched to only 15k at 56. Today, switching things around, was much better. There were a few rounds where I’d only get 2-4 thrusters in, but I’d generally make it back up in the next round. I think it went well (as well as it can, for me, for now at least. 🙂 )
Post-WOD: GHD situps. Just 10. I felt I needed a bit of a back stretch, and didn’t want to try pullups today, given how my arms felt. Ow.
Think it’s an ice day. 🙂
Stuff:
I took a LOT of fish oil today. I’ve been trying to get used to the stuff. 😛 I choked down the last well after dinner, and hopefully won’t feel lousy from it tomorrow – although lousy from the workouts this week would still be understandable. 🙂
Looking forward to Trail of History! It’s going to be chilly, I’m sure, but I’m really getting excited about hiking out, walking around all day, playing with the kids and looking in shop tents and eating well. I *may* cheat a little but I’m not sure. There are things there that I ONLY have the chance to have there… but, well, we’ll see. *shrug*
Hi there, regarding eating…I didn’t catalog it at all, which is bad of me, but I’m sure I was eating a ton more when I lost my weight…granted I weighted 249, so that has something to do with it too. I haven’t said anything before b/c I thought Wild Bill was checking you, but since you asked, it doesn’t seem like you’re eating enough. I’m not sure what you should increase, but that is my take. Hope that helps!
What’ve you been eating lately? If you’re concerned about not logging it before, why not start now! 😉 I know I was eating more when I was heavier, but had just started training harder – so I know my appetite went a little crazy for a while. I’m not sure if I’m eating less now because I’m more used to the work, or if I’m just falling back into older habits, or if it’s even appropriate at all. *shrug*
If Bill is checking anything on this specifically, I don’t know about it. I’ve been trying to drop to lower carbs, to see what that gets me, but… all it seems to be getting me is hungry. ;D
A little cheating now and again is not so bad. And at times can be good for the soul. Find some one or more then some one to split the stuff you want to cheat on. That way you get a taste but don’t go over board.
I am not sure which diet yo are following but it looks like you are following the Atkins diet from what I have read. From what I remember my step-mom eating when My dad and her were doing the Atkins diet. I don’t think you are getting enough food. She started her weight lose diet at 180lb and I remember her eating a lot more food then what you are now. And doing pretty well with it. An other problem you maybe having. Is your body may not be dealing well with a mostly meat diet. You may need to eat more veggies and fruit. So your body does not store every thing you eat in the veggie and fruit category any time you have it. I also don’t know how much dairy(or other source of calcium) you are allowed but you may want to up that or at least make sure you are getting enough calcium from some place. I stop loosing weight if I don’t get enough calcium in my diet.
I am not much help though. Since I can’t do an Atkins style diet. Actually part of my weight problem now is from following my kidney stone diet(the urologist put me on it) in the first place. I am suppose to eat an 80% carb diet. Does not work out well for me.
I fully intend to have a few treats once November comes around, although I am hoping to keep them somewhat small, and shoot for REALLY high quality. 🙂 (Going downtown for deep dish, and fresh-made cheese&caramel popcorn… Cold Stone or Oberweis for ice cream, etc. 🙂 And a loaded, huge steakhouse baked potato, maybe a single trip to Olive Garden. All of this very spread out, of course. XD )
We’ve been shifting to a Paleo/Primal diet, which has some similarities to Atkins in that it tends to be low-carb; that’s about where the similarities end, though.
The meat hasn’t been any kind of a problem so far, other than the whole purchasing/cooking part. I’ve been getting lazy. 🙂 That, and whenever I have a container of leftovers, Giles has been tending to take the whole container with him for his work meals – which doesn’t leave any extra for my lunch. *shrug*
I’ve never been much of a veggie person, not good I know, it’s just how I was raised and it’s hard to get past that. Especially when it was mostly the ‘Meat & potatoes’ type of diet – usually with corn and homemade bread. Which is still much better than some food options, but not quite what I’m shooting for right now. I’ve dropped dairy (other than the occasional bit of cheddar and some butter for cooking) to see how my body deals with it, and I think I could be okay with a bit more added back in, but not lots.
Since my preferred method of getting dairy is chocolate milk and ice cream, and those are out at the moment, I think it’s safer to leave it out for now. 🙂
Why are you on a 80% carb diet for stones?? I know it’s supposed to be lower in protein, but….?
I am suppose to be following a low Oxalate diet. My kidney stones are made up mostly of Oxalate and a little bit of calcium. Most of what is safe for me is carbs and refined cabs at that. I have pretty much given up following the diet one of my urologist out lined for me. Way to hard to follow not to mention I put on weight like crazy. Here is a link if you are curious about what is high in Oxalate http://www.branwen.com/rowan/oxalate.htm
I am suppose to avoid any foods high in Oxalate and sparingly eat those in the medium group. I was also suppose to keep dairy to a minimum too. I followed the diet for about 3 years. Pretty much gave it up when I got pregnant. Since most of the food I was avoiding was healthy stuff.
The only thing I try to avoid all most all the time is peanuts. Which was hard for a very long time since I love peanut butter toast. I finally broke down and had peanut butter toast for dinner last night for the first time in a couple of years. Peanuts have the highest level of Oxalate out of all the foods.
Part of the reason My urologist really wanted me following this diet is I all most lost my left kidney to my first stone. It was 2cm big and blocked my kidney opening for a few days and caused a raging kidney infection. I had to have surgery to put a stint in and then wait a month(my kidney had to heal from the infection, I was on a lot of heavy duty antibiotics) to have lipotripsy to break the stone up. Since then I have tended to past a stone once every couple of months and that was 8 or 10 years ago. Thankfully all the stones I have had since then I have easily been able to pass with no intervention. Unfortunately for me kidney stones are hereditary in my family. Well you either get stones or gout.
Beth, way to go on Kalsu! That workout was absolutely brutal. I used 40kg, cut off at 20:00, and only completed 69 reps! Brutal. Just brutal.
What you’re eating looks great, Beth. I’m really proud of you!
Thank you!! Oh, Kalsu, how I loathe thee… *lol* I really think it’s up there with Fran in terms of agony, just spread out over a longer duration. 69 reps at 40kg is awesome!! I’m sort of dreading the day where I have to increase either burpees or weight on this one. 😀
Thanks for the food input! I’ve been trying to cut a bit more in the way of carbs, but I’m just finding myself more and more hungry – and eating more fats (usually nuts or olive oil) just isn’t working out. 🙂 I just don’t know how you guys do it day-to-day. 😀