Capt-MoonLight’s Memento Mori

I’ve just started calorie counting since last Sunday (Jan 4th 2009) to loose BF %, I have hit a hurdle and was feeling depressed lol and giving up, you can read it here http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=113266331

About the same time I took up walking to burn off extra calories,  on Thursday (8th) I did this 1st loop in my area, it’s a 4.7km/3 mile loop. The 1st time I did it at a medium to brisk walk and did it in 49 min. I was using that as a benchmark as the next time I planned on jogging as much as I could (which wouldn’t be far as I’m not fit) but the idea is, any time I knock off 49 mins I must have therefor jogged that distance. My goal is to jog the whole loop.

The next day I did and my time was 43 mins, so I must have jogged 6 mins lol

I thought before doing it that my lack of fitness would be what would first give in, but it was my lower legs that gave way 1st, the front part, the shin area. They felt like lead sinkers after a few seconds of jogging, so I jogged 10sec then walked a min, then jogged, then walked etc, etc,

Surprisingly my lack of fitness wasn’t an issue the 1st time, it was the lack of conditioning in my legs. And by  the time I got 3/4 way home my legs were feeling kind of fine.

The next time I went on the loop, Today the 11th, I was surprised it wasn’t my legs that gave up 1st, this time it was my lack of fitness, I found my legs felt better this time and what was stopping me was shortness of breath lol

But again, 3/4 the way home my fitness started to feel better.

I did this loop in 41 mins, so thats 8 minutes I jogged.

It will be interesting to see if I can do it even faster the next time, I feel I can.

The moral of this story, as 1 area of my BF% reduction program has hit a snag (The calorie counting bit) I am seeing gains and improvements in another area, exercise.  So I am feeling confident…

This is Tuesday’s breakdown. Let me know what you think, I’m new to dieting so input from pro’s would be good.

This is a 3 day average of total calories.

I’ve just had a startling revelation with my diet!Most of my meals aren’t to bad, although I’m far from a bodybuilding clean diet. I eat regular meals that normal people eat 1) Cereal with normal milk for breakfast

2) Iv’e been having protein shakes for lunch for the last month

3) Dinner is usually Smallish steak/mash potatoes/3 tablespoons of vegies

or 2 fried sausages/1 fried egg/ fried chips with 3 tablespoons of vegies

4) 3-4 night per week i snack on 1 mars bar (chocolate) or 1 KitKat and 1 bag of potato chips, 1 glass of milk. lol

the rest of the nights I have a handful of salted peanuts, 1 handful of cashew nuts, an apple and some other fruit and a glass of milk.

Not a pro body building diet but still, I’m not gorging on food and what I do eat isn’t that bad. It’s not like I live on fast food, although I do have that 1 night per week lol

Anywho…. I d/l a diet program where you enter the food you eat on a given day and it breaks it down to all the individual intake, carbs/fat/protein and it even breaks it all down to the vitamins and minerals etc and tells you what you should be eating for your age/weight/sex etc.

I was shocked that on my fast food night, see above for the 3 meals and just add the large tub of fried rice I had for dinner lol and I was SHOCKED!!! to see that I got not 1 dot of Vitamin C in my whole day.

The shocking thing is, that if I project that to my normal meals I still get very little to NO Vit C in my diet. The 3 tablespoons of vegies I have 4 nights per week or the odd banana/apple/nectrun etc hardly add up to a sufficient Vit C intake.

So I googled Vit C deviancy and the symptoms are ,

Anaemia – Feeling tired, lack of energy, sleepy.

Sores take a long time to heal

I have all those symptoms…

So I rushed down to the shops and bought Vitamin C tablets and will have 1,000mg for the next few days just to get some Vit C into me J Hopefully I will start to feel better.

http://www.wikihow.com/Measure-Body-Fat-Using-the-US-Navy-Method

Has a body fat calculator.