Tommy’s BodyBlog

The first carb up went crazy, but I learned my lesson. The second one was a lot tighter. Ok, I had pizza, but an home made healthy yet satisfying one. And a beer. The rest was oatmeal, sweet potatoe and brown rice. It did a lot of good on the energy levels, and my bodyfat percentage didn’t raise too much (0.3%) as compared to last time. Next carb up is tomorrow night, and I’ll make sure it goes smooth too. After that, one week on CKD left, and then I’ll go back to a more balance diet, with plenty of healthy carbs in the morning, and none after 3pm. I’ll miss the 35% cream + whey deserts for sure!

As for the training, I’ve been limiting myself to calisthenics (pullups, chinups, tricep dips, and various pushup styles), abs and smooth cardio (4×60s intervals of skip ropping, smooth rollerblading, smooth elliptical). I can’t wait to go back to the gym and lift some heavy stuff. Yet, I found calisthenics a lot more challenging than I initially expected, but I’ve made great endurance improvements that I’ll put to use with barbells.

Later,

T

I kind of exaggerated on my first carb up. I craved fast food for 3 days (I never crave fastfood). So when the carb hour came, I went crazy. Too much bad food. French fries. Pizza. Beer. I lost some of the progress I made last week, but not all (at least). Yet, I’m ashamed of my actual BF% as compared to friday. But I know now that carb up isn’t any close to a free pass. Lesson learned, moving forward.

After 24 hours of my last carbed meal, I’m not yet in ketosis. It’s probably normal, I figure that out over a few weeks I suppose. I’ll check back tomorrow morning. Energy is great, and my cardio+calisthenics workout went well. I’m gonna try some burpees tomorrow.

The next 2 days are going to be rough, as they’re mostly out of office meeting (15 hours in a row on wednesday). I’ll have to plan my meals wisely.

T

Work has been crazy lately. So crazy I had to pretty much stop training (still doing abs every other day). After all, there’s only 24h in a day, and I need to sleep at least 6. But this is soon gonna be over.

Meanwhile, I’ve been giving a shot at CKD. A little by accident at first, as I didn’t have much time to do the groceries, so I’ve been eating eggs, steaks, sausages, chicken breast and broccoli+cauliflower that I had frozen. My last carbed meal was on monday morning, and it was a protein shake with about a cup of oatmeal. Less than 10g of carbs per day since then. I’m feeling fine so far, and managed to drop by BF% by 0.7% since last friday.

I also bought myself a bottle of Ketostix today. I did two tests, and it turns out that I’m in the "trace" zone, lower than I expected, but not the end of the world apparently.

I can’t wait for my carb up. I’ve never had big craves in my life, and I’m not the fast-food type. But I’ve been dreaming about a greasy pizza slice and a juicy burger since I woke up this morning. If I wasn’t a guy, I’d probably do a pregnancy test.

Gotta get back to work now, finish this micro-site and get some rest.

Cheers,

T