GabrielBlack’s BodyBlog

When I’m not tired I have an unhealthy love of food. When I’m exhausted I have no control over my desire for food. I will eat anything and everything. For the last…what’s it been now…month already?…I’ve been exhausted. Today is the first day I feel like I’ve finally gotten on top of my work. It started with working until 2am and since then I couldn’t catch up! I’d get a night’s break - an opportunity to go to bed at a normal hour - and then it’d be a week of late nights and early mornings again!

I’ve come out of this bad patch without any gym time and feeling positively frumpy, well padded and whale-like. I’ve eaten the worst kinds of food - the convenient, ready made or fast-food kind - and I feel terrible for it.

It’s not all bad I suppose. I did learn something. I’ve realized that I have no control of what I put in my mouth when I’m over tired and that my eating habits on a normal day are ghastly.

I don’t eat my food. I don’t even appreciate it - I shovel it into my mouth, masticate it three of four times to get it into position and swallow that way I can hurry it up and shovel more in…

When did I lose that joy of taste? When did I last appreciate the flavours, textures and aromas of food? When last did I eat something made with care, with nourishment, quality and enjoyment in mind?

It’s time I took cognisence of what I use as fuel and how I perform a fill-up.

I’m rather bummed. I haven’t really trained properly for a while now because my hand’s hurting and weak still. Before Christmas I did something rather silly. Something I’m rather ashamed of. I completely lost my temper and hit a large immovable object rather rapidly about 3 or 4 times in swift succession with full force.
My hand is still weak and painful when someone shakes it or I do something as simple as pour water from the kettle.
 

I’m not sure if I’ve broken anything – I don’t think so though. I should imagine a break would be much more painful. I can however guarantee that lifting weights will be painful.
 

My favourite Marcus Ruhl video – the one that inspires me the most – is no longer available! The video with the Disturbed soundtrack. I’m rather miserable about that too. I had to find another video with a hard core kick bum sound track.
 

I do hope everyone’s had a good new year and Christmas.
 

Ciao for now.

It’s amazing how fast the strength drains out of muscle if you don’t keep up the training! I’ve allowed myself some time off due to the marriage & honeymoon but started training this morning again. I was shocked!

I knew after not training I’d have to start on a lesser workout to get into the swing of things again, but I was really surprised at how I struggled even though I’d chosen weights lower than what I’d been doing!

It’s a good lesson in consistancy. It’s not how much you can pick up in one go - it’s the constant and long term work that really pays off!

Ciao for now.

The honeymoon is never over, but it’s about time for me to pull myself towards myself. I’m quite sure my lady doesn’t want to drown in a sea of blubber when she holds me!

Tuesday I start gym and my proper eating program again. This silly season I’m going to be very good. I’ll watch my portions and what I put into my body. I was doing so well! Ah well no regrets - I wouldn’t have done it differently.

I also cheated a little - that tattoo I wanted? Well I’ve got the line work done. My mother’s going to kill me! Yes, yes I’m this old and she’s a good two heads shorter’n me but her hands are like leather and well practiced. She’s going to kill me.

Ciao for now.

Okay, so last weights session this morning before the big day tomorrow! I’m excited and nervous - haven’t even practiced my speech!

The way I’m feeling, the honeymoon’s going to be great!

 Ciao for now.

Unfortunately, I fully intend to break my diet in about two weeks time.

I don’t believe wedding cake, well not the one we’re having, is low fat and right after that there’s the honeymoon! I’m afraid I have no plan to diet until we get back home.

I’m only going to do this once and I’m going to enjoy it.

Ciao for now.

The work I’ve been doing on my body was initiated and motivated through three reasons.

1.       I realized I was fat and with my heart condition, I was finding it increasingly difficult to do normal day-to-day activities.

2.       I’m getting married in 17 days and wanted to give my bride something somewhat good-looking and firm not squishy and doughy.

3.       Penance for things I’ve done in the past.

I will not be giving this lifestyle up after the marriage or honeymoon. I’m enjoying it too much! It may be difficult but I’ve got results that I never thought possible – so I didn’t try before. Shame on me.

I only hope my Lady likes what I’ve done and what she’ll get.

I’m so excited!

Ciao for now.

The sniffles have departed. My lady had them really bad with a chest infection and everything! She’s not allowed to train for another week and she’s HATING it!

I’ve taken the plunge and am using a protein shake with my low carb diet. I hope I see results - it was a lot of money but well worth it if it helps me on my way to a great body!

Ciao for now.

Yet again I cannot train because of a cold! Yet again I have the sniffles. Yet again I can understand how people become germophobes.

I’ve taken note of who at the office has colds and washed my hands after contact with them or anything they’ve handed me. I’ve washed my hands regularly for safety. I’ve avoided touching my eyes - the most suseptable part of the body for absorbing nasty cold germs and yet I still have the sniffles!

There is some consolation and I put this down to eating healthy and working out. I don’t have the sniffles anywhere as badly as any of my colleagues do.

Looking forward to gym soon again!

 Ciao for now.

I’m tentatively trying out the "Burning fat on a Budget" nutrition experience. Unfortunately I can only go so far with this plan for now, however it seems to be working.

I’ve been stuck in a weight rut of about 78kg for a few months now. I’ve definately been building muscle and slowly putting on the weight I’ve lost with such hard work. I’ll re-itterate that the scale is merely confirming change and my end aim is to look good i.e. lose a considerable amount of body fat and tightened up my muscles!

The only thing I’ve changed again is diet. I’ve included more boiled eggs and yogurt plus really watching those carb intakes. It seems to have shaken something loose somewhere because this morning my weight was 77.8kg. WOW!

The diet also recommends Protein shakes (high in protein) which is expensive here! The other ingredients are pretty pricy too! This is a beef-eating country and therefore beef is less expensive than chicken most of the time! Problem is our beef is fatty. This lean lifestyle has a foothold here, but only a foothold. Very few are ardently lean seekers.

I battle on.

Ciao for now.