Jan 28, 2010

Woo yeah! first update in a while!

look how much I haven't changed:

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here is all the brand new pix for today:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/solarisonrails/sets/72157623303592242/

I really think I do got more muscle now, but I had a couple setbacks and I got bit fatter here too, so well see how this rolls over the next months


ill leave you to interpret this how you want

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Here are some pix with good lighting:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/solarisonrails/sets/72157616680956604/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/solarisonrails/3436126410/

80 Days In

80 Days In today. Well the 'experiment' is pretty much over. I think I'll continue with eating almost zero junk food and red meat indefinitely. I'll prolly have some, once in a blue moon, but I doubt it will ever factor in my diet overall. I'll prolly have a drink whenever I damn well feel like it, but its once or twice a month max anyway.

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The back

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front

Measurable Change

Today is April 2, 2009

Sept 17, 2008 / April 2, 2009 - 197 Days

Weight: 78.2kg / 73.6kg - 6% drop
Arms: 34cm / 34cm - Same
Calves: 40cm / 39cm - Same
Forearms: 29cm / 29cm - Same
Thighs: 55cm / 53cm - 2cm less
Waist: 88cm / 84cm - 4cm less
Chest: 94cm / 95cm - 1 cm more

It's been 72 days since I started my stricter diet, no treats or alcohol. Since then I've only dropped about 600 grams. ( A little over a pound for you statute twits). I've almost certainly gained some kilos of muscle and dropped some kilos of fat, but I don't have the tools to get any kind of acurate number. I can only guess 'a couple' I do not know what my bodyfat percentage is. I anticipated running alot more than I have so far, but after 5k on a treatmill I'm feeling good but bored to tears. And everyday thats been good enough, I go out for a run as well. Looks like the weather is just about done sucking ass so I'll be able to do alot more outside running, and since I have a car that doesn't suck I can go mtb as well.

Diet has been 2000cals per day for 6-8 days then a 2500-2800cal day. I'm really happy with my progress. Consistency over time ftw.

Allmost the perfect runner

Or atleast collection of running shwag on one man. I however forgot to where my GPS watch for this photo op. I'll have to do another later. In these photo I have: RX sunglasses, belt that carries water and other items like a key, klenex or possibly a joint. Running underwear, boxer briefs essentially with a slick surface. Running short shorts. and my five fingers. Besides the missing watch the only other thing I could add might be a music player, but I don't listen to music when I run, I'd hit a tree. I just think about shit. Big shit, I might just be a few runs away from saving the world with my big ideas.

Mid diet crisis

Actually there is no crisis at all but I had to have some kind of title. 60 days in I'd say its going real well. I think the no treats thing works well for me, and I've been eating about 2000 cals a day about 6 days a week and maybe 2500 once per week. And also no alcohol. However I plan on screwing this up around day 90 or so because I'm going to a wedding and it would be obnoxious not to eat cake and get drunk. Besides that though I get the feeling I'd keep the style of eating the same indefinitely. I never really crave any junk. Besides maybe diet soda. I do sometimes want a beer or whiskey but never for to long. I've been in a bottle before and I'll prolly get in some more soon enough anyway. Never crave red meat either. Been cooking salmon and chicken alot more now and enjoying that. I've been getting into a routine with eating that I like. Good food, and very economical. Breakfast will have a bannana, and oatmeal, and somedays also a protein shake. ( 1 scoop). I eat the bannana and drink a glass of water as I wait for the water to boil for the oatmeal. Its pretty much always worth the wait to have warm food i've found. I've tried to pretty much quit cold cerial. At some point in the day I will have a fiber one bar (30 for 8$) and a yogurt (about 50c) (maybe ill even mix some ground flax seed in for the ultimate jive and tasty healthy treat) . at the gym in my bottle I got 95% water and 5% fruit juice. Just enough flavor. Most days I will cook some fish or chicken at some point in the day. Sometimes scrambled eggs with random spices. A few large spoonfuls of 2% cottage cheese I get for about 5$ per 1.3kg before sleeping. V8 juice when disired. I got some wraps I can put either field greens/romaine in, sometimes egg or chicken. If you get the right wraps you can do really well, I've found some that have 9g protien, 20 carbs, 6 fiber, total 100cals and they taste great. yadda yadda

A second thought on pictures

I have diligently done (some might say narcissistically done) progress type pix every while for 60 days now. But its been a little ghetto with the bad lighting, and me not really knowing or doing a very consistent type of pose. Maybe I'll move to the laundry room with better lighting and try to be more consistant maybe not.

60 Days In

I weighed 74kg the other day so I'm a whole 300 grams lighter than the day I started! ha! I do feel I have gained some muscle and lost some fat overall tho, but I couldn't say how much, I can just tell. Bodybuilder wise the main things I'm trying to improve right now is pecs and traps, I think both are tiny in comparison to my arms, I've been doing some different exercises to focus on that and its feeling good so far. These pictures come out really crappy due to bad lighting but wheteva. I said I'd take em I'm hopping there will be something to make a 100 day progress image or animation or something. Well see.

50 Days In

Well its been 50 days on the no cupcake diet. I'm half way though. My weight is 75kg, almost exactly the same as the day I started!! ha ha ha, I Guess thats good, I'm thinking I lost fat and gained muscle. Only way to really know is by pic.. I need to get a spot with better lighting though, because all these look kinda wacked.

Well I haven't posted in a week or so, so my two readers might be dying to hear whats going on. The ideal exercise part of the plan has been a complete non-starter. Since its winter and my car broke down I haven't been able to take anything to the extreme. I've done some p90x vids though, and p90x+ interval+ whipped me. I think I did it in maybe 5 sections. I'll be able to ramp that up soon enough.

Anyway tho, the no crap diet is going along almost perfectly. I've only done one sin which is a diet energy drink and a couple diet cokes. The eliminating artificial sweetner part of the plan I think is good, but I just had to give in. I normally drink coffee until my stomache is completely full of it, but sometimes I get tired of drinking it and then I just drink entire two litre bottles of pepsi max, and uhm.. Its just not good, to much acid. Thats the main problem with diet soda, I feel like I almost crave the acidity of it more than anything else about it. Then I also know, whenever I consume artificial sweetner without caffeine in it, I get a headache. (like sugar free gum) Thats the whole body expects glucose but gets none effect. ( I am not a headachey type of person, and that and alcohol are easily 99% of any headaches I might get, which is hardly any) (also interweb posting caveat, I don't have any specific proof or studies to point to for that effect, I've seen some, and I've seen some seemingly refuting, but thats my personal experience of it, if your interested google 'artificial sweetners weight gain' to begin your studies)

Otherwise though, I have had no cow/pigs/pizza/cake/alcohol etc and I've had zero problem with that. Sometimes though things are right on the line between healthy and treatish. And certainly many things are healthy treats. I went through a box of generic frosted mini wheats, and I think due to the frosting part I'm going to take that out of the diet. It just adds to much sugar. I've had a couple oatmeal cookies, and I dunno, it has the word cookie in it and some are really good. I think I'll keep the option of eating those because they can be so good. I've been eating between 1500-2200 cals per day, but again non of it being crap.

I've been weighing 75kg. BTW, just to note this here, if your trying to get anything at all usefull out of weighing yourself you need to do it second thing in the morning, right after your morning pee pee. And before you drink anything, and do it in your skivvies. If you always do it then you might get something usefull out of tracking the number.

I was thinking of renaming the 'no crap' diet to the 'zero cupcake' diet. Yeah, sounds good to me, I think that will be the new tenative name until I think of a better one.

'More interesting' posts later.

6 days in

The exercise part has been overwhelmed by events, and I haven't been able to really do anything to the extreme at the moment, but I'm hoping to rev that up real soon, I've done a vid, a couple runs, and some pull up/ push up stuff, but nothing special yet. The strict no crap diet, I've stuck to really well and I quite like it. Some people need consistency in their lives from one thing or another, and for me its food, I'm happy to know whenever Im eating, I'm eating something good for me.

On friday when it was warm I went for an outdoor run and quite enjoyed it, just 6k or so. It was a fluke day and people where outside grilling, I could smell some braughtwurst cooking and really loved the smell, I imagined myself eating a brautwurst and drinking grey goose + cranberry juice. Tempting stuff. What else was I tempted by... hrmm.. Red Bull Cola, I think I've only had it once and I really wanted to try it again, but its clearly just sugar water regardless of how Naturally flavoured it may be. I couldn't justify it. I imagined creating a list of temptations to give into at certain points, maybe I could do this 'no crap' diet 100 days at a time then have a couple days to just eat mainly crap inbetween. But I guess I won't know what I really want till I've actually gone 90-100 days with no crap.

Its only been 6 days, but I think I've had about 1500 cals on 4 days and maybe 2000 on the other two, on the 1500 cal days I've had about 5 small meals, and on the 2000 cal days I've had 1 big meal and two small ones. I'd like to have two weeks of 1500 cal days but it wasn't practical with all the back and forth driving etc I've been dealing with in the past bit.

The beggining

Today is the beginning. Otherwise uneventful, I ate 1500 calories, most of it nuts and granola bars, I really need to hit the grocer. Did kenpo cardio plus from p90x+ with the gf, and she did better with it than I did :P Otherwise just sat around watched obama stuff and worked.

Further Explanation of the experiment

This is a bit more on my 'plan' extrapolating from my first post. Normally I eat reasonably, and indulge in such things as cookies and cakes and pizza and scotch sparingly, I also exercise regularly, rarely eat pigs or cows etc. I've don't necessarily count calories but I've done it a bit in the past so I know how much things generally are. I probably eat and behave as would be recommended by "them" whatever that means to you. The self experiment here is to see what level I can take it to if I _never_ indulge or cheat or whatever you want to call it, and combine that with an increase in exercise. Many would consider this inhuman or torture, but I think it will be good fun for me. One thing I don't lack is willpower, If I only knew exactly what to eat for perfect health I would eat it and never deviate. Healthy food taste great anyway, so thats why I rarely give in to something that tastes interesting but either is terrible for me or makes me feel terrible afterwards. Of course the harder part of life here on earth is that we don't have that perfect food algorithm quite yet (work in progress) . So that makes it a little harder to know, but me and millions of others are trying to figure it out.

If I was being chased by rabid gorillas on the African plains all day, that cheesy bacon gordita crunch might be just what I need, high starch and saturated fat foods can be part of a healthy diet (well the processed part of that might never be). But my main activities are sitting infront of the computer, sitting infront of a book and sitting infront of a professor. So I don't need any fat reserves beyond the essential, and that kind of food isn't going to be doing me any good at this time.

I hate the word rules, but their is somewhat of a blacklist to my meal plan, and like I said these foods can be eated enjoyed and healthy but they are not part of my plan right now.

- no pigs and cows
- no high sat fat / starch combos eg. pizza/pasta
- no candies/pastries/treats/sugar water
- nothing with artificial sweetners
- no alcohol

I wont be taking any pills or vitamins or supplements with the exception of whey protein which I usually take about 75-90g (in three or so doses) per intense weightlifting workout. So basically no gimmicks, not that I don't love gimmicks but the whole deal isn't based on any.

Also for workouts, exercise, fun whateva, I do it all. Running, mountain biking, workout classes, workout tapes, pushups, pullups, weightlifting with freeweights, a few machines. I cover the three primary types, aerobic, callistenics, resistance. People who just lift, or just run are beyond me. I crave all three types at different times depending on the whim of the moment.

The Last Supper

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The final terrible for me food. I tried to eat the worst stuff imaginable. (That I might enjoy the taste of) The cheesy bacon gordita crunch pretty much rocked for that. Its got two layers of starch with a layer of bacon in between and the middle is cheese and processed beef. I finished off that and another similar thing I forget the name of and the "loaded" nachos, and washed it all down with high fructose corn syrup. Oh yeah. I really never eat beef but I felt like with this and the five guys burger from yesterday that I literally had alot of fat in my blood. My friends call this feeling "the meatsweats" . I completed this last supper about 3:30 or so, and I could not get off the couch until I think 5:30 or so. I tried to get up earlier but I moved a few inches forward and then decided to just lay down for a while.

A token workout

So the gf wanted to goto the gym today and I went along, I had only made it one other time this year for a quick run on a -7c day. I did a 1 mile run at 10kph, 15 minutes on the bike at an easy speed, and about 20 or so reps on 7 or so machines. I barely broke a sweat but I did feel a little beat for what I would normally call a token work out. I felt like the workout was in some way painfull where as normally the entire process is energising, renewing and euphoric. I've been around this block many times before so I know this, but its wierd to experience it again. I couldn't imagine ever going more than a month without a proper routine, it would be such a ruiness experience. Time to run for the border.

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Hair today, gone tomorrow. I suppose even tho its 36 hours or so till obama is sworn in, these are my starting pics. I had my cake binge, my scotch binge, and I just had a five guys cheeseburger with bacon, and I even got the root beer soda with all the high fructose corn syrp in it. I really can't think of what other terrible things I can consume before the start of my program, perhaps a lack of imagination on my part.

I shaved my belly which I haddn't done in some time. I did not feel like shaving my chest tonight, but perhaps some day I might have the urge. Shaving the belly is quite easy, the chest is a bit more touble, I def like the look of the shaved belly better, where as the chest I like both the hair and shaved look. Shaving pretty much any other part of the body is far far to much trouble, and If I were to ever try it, id outsource. ( Like I do with my head/neck hair).

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Oh whisky!!!!

I really don't care for alcohol overall, but for some reason this johnny black label, oh I love you!!!

Tick Tick Tick

90 hours to so until bush is gone and quit drinking scotch ha ha ha

Today I weigh 74.3 kg. I expect I could drop 5-6kg if I only went for cardio, but I'd honestly be shocked if I ever dropped under 70kg, Id expect a sustained drop of no more than 3kg, and then it creeping back up as I pack on more muscle tissue. Well see.

Todays fitness activities: nothing.


Here is my numbers from September:

Sept 17, 2008

Weight: 78.2kg
Arms: 34cm
Calves: 40cm
Forearms: 29cm
Thighs: 55cm
Waist: 88cm
Chest: 94cm

Cake for breakfast

ahh so... when I woke up today and went downstairs, I saw the last bit o that cake, prolly about an average size peice left there. I HAD to finish that cake, I mean thats the last sweet treat for atleast 90 days?? I'm going to have some kind of cake scurvy!! ... Cake complete.

So yeah, thats how I start my Health and Fitness blog, cake for breakfast!!

alas... I have other demons to face before the inaguration...

Jan 15, 2009

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Every good diet program always beggins with a binge of some sort. Here I am trying to shove down an entire cake.

ps. I'm fucking joking

I did try to eat alot of this cake, but I prolly only got down what would be considered a large peice, the appearance of the cake was just that todays my gf's birthday and he co workers got her this cake. Even tho its 5 days before the start of my experiement ill consider this my last sweet treat. Her bday party celebration is this weekend so I fully look forward to some final good indulgences of alcohol and food. Binge and purge baby!!!


ps. I don't actually endorse binge purge.

Jan 15, 2009

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Ok this is how I look on Jan 15, 2009, 5 days until the start of my " the experiment"

Oh and I also wanted to say, that December 20th to now was probably the most sedantary perioid of time I've had in the last year or more.

Oh and my gf thinks I look gay in this picture

October 3rd, 2008

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Ok This is what I looked like on October 3rd, 2008

Introduction to this blog

I'm going to try to eat and exercise as I would in nearly my most idealistic envisioning. In my normal day to day life in the past few years I'd say I reach my ideal on a third of days and do ok on the rest. The point of this blog is to see what happens if I try to hold it together and do a string of at least 90 days. I'm not doing P90X but I do have the disks and might use it somewhat as well. What does 90 days even mean? It just means I'm going to be as disiplined as possible for that long, and then revaluate. Maybe life would be better if I never ate pizza, cake or drank beer, rather than sparingly like I do now, I don't think I've quit these petty indulgences for that long in a row. Like that head bitch on the work out show "Sugar is the Devil"

One of the reason's I say nearly is, I have the same limitation that most everyone has, I goto school and work, and I don't have a personal chef, so I prolly wont be having fish sandwiches for breakfast, and I can't just workout all day and do nothing else, or eat so little calories that I can't think strait just to get down to 3% bodyfat. That said the hardest thing is really going to be that its winter here, and cold as fuck, so I have to exercise inside or at the gym. Its -7C outside right now, so running or biking is simply not going to be happening until atleast near the end of the 90 day experiement.

I'm not going to pretend anyone gives a flying fuck, this blog is mainly just for me to keep track of myself. I'm going to try and take a body pic once per week , that should be a fun slideshow at the end of the experiement and beyond. I might or might not post what I ate or did for exercise that day. Oh and since everyone is smoking so much hope these days, I'm going to officially start this deal on Obama's inaguaration day, tuesday the 20th of Jan 2009, it will amuse me greatly if on tv or print news they talk about his X day in office and its my X day of this experiement.