Mitch’s goof off space

I’m often indecisive in picking out what to eat, especially when my choices are confined (like lunchtime at work.)  Today I picked up two different slices of pizza from a decent italian place down the road.  I got through once piece, then nearly half the other, and gave up - pizza has lost nearly all of it’s appeal to me.  The taste and aftertaste is just so strong - and the feeling afterwords, it’s like pouring sludge onto gears in a machine.  I just feel kind of nasty on the inside.  So I think I’m done with pizza and pizza-derivative foods for a while.  The gourmet stuff, like Urban Flats, on thin wheatbread is okay though.

Poor performance today, a nice headache brewed in my left hemisphere and made high intensity reps pretty much impossible about half way through.  Frustrating!  Still, I got most of my workout done, and for the latter part concentrated on more reps at a lower weight to stop spikes in blood pressure making my head pound.

I have a pretty good idea what caused it too: my worst sin regarding bodybuilding is not eating enough/at the right times.  Lunch at 12:30pm, and then I should have had dinner right after work, but I screwed around and went to the gym on a very empty stomach.  I have got to eat more, and more often.  How do you do it?

That’s what I call my dinner of a slice of greasy pizza and a Yuengling beer.  Whenever I behave badly, eating wise, I consider it a ‘loan’ against my fitness.  To pay the loan back, all I have to do is work out the appropriate amount to counter it.  Works well for me. 

After getting sick twice and being all bent out of shape from girl problems, I finally got back to my ‘holding’ weight of 155.  My true goal is to end up ‘cut’ at 165, which I suppose would require a bulk beyond that.  I’m going to keep my higher calorie diet going and see where I can get to.

I’ve managed to get sick again, just a minor little throat irritation but probably something that will stick around for 3 or 4 days.  And I know how I got it…

Life’s events have got me down, and I admit to being in a little depression.  Depression, among other things disrupts sleep and surpresses appetite, both big contributors to lowering your immune system’s strength.  There’s germs on everything, and there is a threshold of how many you can take in before you get sick.  The more quality rest and good diet you have, the higher that threshold is.

So there it is - a happy outlook and a positive mindset can help keep you from getting sick.