July 13, 2008
Belly 46.5
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June 8, 2008
Bubba and I got a guys day out yesterday, and drove up to Texas Motor Speedway to watch the Bombardier 550 IndyCar race. We had a great time. Uzzman came along for the ride and documented the event photographically, I look forward to seeing his pics. The highlight of the day for us may have been Robbie Knievel performing the Texas Hummer Jump, jumping 21 Hummers to the amazement of my son. After the race we were able to go down into the garage area and see the teams cleaning up and working on their cars.
June 8, 2008
June 4, 2008
Song of the Moment: Saul Williams — List of Demands (Reparations)
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“I got a list of demands written on the palm of my hands.
I ball my fist and you’re gonna know where I stand.”
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June 4, 2008
My work often involves designing, or redesigning business or IT systems. One of my pet peeves during the design and implementation is optimizing to early. It has been my experience that until the process has revealed itself to you through familiarity and repetitive use optimizing is pointless, you simply don’t know enough to know *what* to optimize. I learned an expression after moving to Texas, “Picking flyshit out of pepper” which is often what you wind up doing. This entry from A Pattern Language (one of my favorite books of to return to to prompt thought) seems to be an expression of the same idea. Don’t spend to much time strengthening things and setting them in stone until you know they are where you want them.
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May 31, 2008
One of the benefits of having eaten like crap for a long while
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is that once you get back on the wagon diet wise you have a crap load of water weight to dump. I have dropped 10 pounds since Sunday, I know it isn’t “real” weight, but it still motivates me, and it still makes the pants fit a little better.
May 28, 2008
Third failure post in a row. I’m pissed. I spent the last 3 1/2 months traveling on business, eating like crap and making every excuse under the sun not to work out. I have ballooned back up to 282. Filled with self loathing and feelings of failure right now, but want to use this motivation to jump start myself back into action.
I started low carbing again on Sunday, and can already feel my body dumping water weight. To build on this momentum I will back back in the gym tomorrow working back up to a complete workout. Based on my sluggery over the last months, I suspect this will take time.
January 15, 2008
and finally got back into the gym today. Did the last two exercises Tabata style, 20 seconds of max effort followed by 10 secs of rest repeating for four minutes. I only did four exercises total, squats, dips, rows, bench press. I was totally beat when I finished. I had to rest in the locker room, rest in my truck before starting up and heading home, rest on the couch at home while I ate a clementine. But I feel great now, clean and unsluglike for the first time in weeks.
September 9, 2007
After making great progress with hard work for a while, I got really lazy. Been cheating on the diet, skipping workouts and taking steps backward healthwise. Time to recommit. I’d like to weigh 245 by Nov 10. Let’s see if I can make it.
May 16, 2007
Low Carb Diets and Post Workout Nutrition
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So I have been studying the question of what a low carber should be looking at for post workout nutrition. The best article I have seen about it is this interview with John Berardi.
So although it’s customary to prescribe low carb (especially low GI) diets for those with some degree of insulin resistance, the post exercise period is the one time of the day when insulin tolerance is much better than the rest of the day. So use this time to promote growth and recovery. You can use the rest of the day to avoid carbs and take supplements to improve glucose and insulin tolerance.
Given the catabolic state that occurs post workout, the ability for an insulin spike to halt that process and begin the anabolic process much more quickly, and the increase in insulin sensitivity post workout, I am going to experiment with adding a post workout carb and protein drink. Specifically Surge from Biotest. A friend at work tells me I am a giant sucker on this, I may be, but I’ll evalutate it base on results. Surge provides 46g of Carbs and 25g of protein in the forms of d-glucose, whey-protein hydrolysate, and maltodextrin. I am interested to see if 1) I continue to lose weight on a low carb plus post workout carbs diet, or 2) If I don’t continue to lose weight, do I at least start putting on muscle mass.
