Let's try again...
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Lads, I reckon I'm sailing close to the rocks as far as diet goes. Last week Friday and today I've been having a bit of weirdness with my vision and the odd headspin. <br />
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Usually those days I've had a lot of protein and tried to keep the overall intake down, but I'm not starving myself.<br />
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Not enough carbs? Or is my metabolism sharpening up a bit and therefore need more food? -
got to have the carbs - your brain needs them - it's the only 'food' that it'll use!<br />
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Carbs - oats for breakfast, kumara, rice or something for lunch, dinner, not really needed. And that would be at least a cup of oats (whole grain rolled), and at least a cup of uncooked rice for lunch, or 200-300g kumara (or pumpkin). Got to feed the machine NTA!<br />
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get to a nutritionist - have your weekly schedule ready so they can then work out what your intake of carbs / proteins / fats need to be etc. -
Not avoiding carbs as such, just think I've been a bit careless on those days with energy input.<br />
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I am avoiding "white" carbs though like spuds and white rice (and sugar, obviously) because I've seen too much evidence of their detrimental properties in litetature and my own diet. <br />
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I have started getting into the oats though. At work I grab one of those microwave bowls (Uncle Toby's Cinnamon and Brown Sugar) and churn some organic yoghurt through it. Nice. -
Let me work my way into the horse food Bartman <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> One step at a time.<br />
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What I have been using for breakfast over the past few weeks is this:<br />
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[url]http://goodnesssuperfoods.com.au/protein-1st/[/url]<br />
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It tastes bloody good and has a fairly impressive nutritional readout. They do other cereals too. -
[quote name='Kirwan']Tastes good probably because each serving includes half your daily recommended sugar intake.<br />
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[B]In the words of Arnold; Sugar is de enemy[/B].[/QUOTE]<br />
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Bloody hell, how ya goin there Bart jr ? <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> not another one !!! -
I miss my horse food - ten egg white omelet at the moment for breakfast, with 200g kumara and veg etc in omelet just is not the same as the cup of oats, scopp of chocolate protein powder and 3 whipped egg whites... making my mouth water just thinking of it!
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[quote name='NTA']Let me work my way into the horse food Bartman <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> One step at a time.<br />
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What I have been using for breakfast over the past few weeks is this:<br />
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[URL]http://goodnesssuperfoods.com.au/protein-1st/[/URL]<br />
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It tastes bloody good and has a fairly impressive nutritional readout. They do other cereals too.[/QUOTE]<br />
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MMM, 17% sugar! Thats nearly half again more than the bottle of Mountain Dew in my fridge. When i started dieting the 2 things that went straight away were fizzy drinks and cereal. Will drink fizzies sometimes, cereal never. Horrible stuff. -
And Voltsy I'll bet I'm getting more protein from my cereal than Mountain Dew <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />
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Was going to head out for a run last night but got caught up posting on TSF about the Wobblies, and putting kids to bed thereafter. Decided I'd do it this morning instead at 6AM.<br />
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So I woke up about 5 and couldn't really get back to sleep. Went downstairs and weighed in at 111.2kg and was quite pissed off about it to be honest, having been there or thereabouts for a few days.<br />
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Got into my running gear and took out my anger on the road. Smashed out a PB of 5.42 km in 32:19 @ 10.06km/h. Took nearly a minute off my time of the other night, which was good considering I hadn't any breakfast on board at that stage, just fury.<br />
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Back to the scales - 110.5kg. Feel better about that, and yes I know its only fluid and various bodily reactions, but it still made me feel better and that's what I'm after.<br />
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DDO again today but I'll take it easy on the sweet stuff given I'm so close to my goal. 110kg by October 1 I promised myself, and see no reason why i can't hit that target and plan for the next one - double-figures. -
Dude you just did a 5km run!! that isn't anything to be displeased about!! maybe it wasn't the time you were aiming for but you did it. It will all add up in time.<br />
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My advice for improving speed is to really focus on your breathing and technique - keeping your core solid and really pushing through with your legs. I found that after a few weeks or regular running (3-4 times a week, 5-7km) I could actually push a lot harder than I thought. It is a fantastic feeling when you get that rhythm going and it just feels good to be running!!<br />
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Main thing when you are getting started is to listen to your body - I got the running bug and ended up with runners knee (bad case) which has screwed my running over the last 12 months - probably aggravated a rugby injury as well but it all came down to running too much. -
[quote name='NTA']yeah just a bit shitty I couldn't push through to 10+<br />
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Speaking of which - lower back problems again. High just above the left glute this time (was the right lumbar area last time). Bugger.[/QUOTE]<br />
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I fixed mine (over the course of a year) by starting gently with pilates, to build up some core strength slowly, then obviously working on core strength with xFit. Get that area right, and the lower back won't be an issue (unless your spine is fucked, but you seem to be describing muscular back pain)<br />
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And of course you are already doing the obvious thing of losing weight to take the pressure off your back.