So this week has pretty much been business as usual as far as diet and exercise go. I have been listening to a ton of Robb Wolf's podcast this week as well. I highly recommend this if you are looking for good information on eating a lowish carb paleo/primal diet and exercise.
I have been working on increasing the amount of carbs as I think this will help me keep on track beyond the 2 to 3 months where I usually have issues. It is pretty difficult though with only eating things like broccoli, green beans and the like. So I've added in small amounts (~60g) of things like beets and parsnips. So far this seems to be going well.
I experimented yesterday with eating 4 meals to try and get more protein in my diet. Robb Wolf has been recommending shooting for 1g per lb of body weight for protein and I've been getting about 130g per day which is like .6g/lb. What I found was that hunger has a lot to do with routine. Meaning if you are used to eating at a given time, you tend to get hungry at that time. I'd read that on leangains.com before but had never really experienced that. Even though I had eaten at noon, I started getting hungry at around 2 or 3pm which was my more normal eating time. Decided it was a better choice to just add a bit more protein to each meal to get the level up.
For exercise, I've been doing one round of the Spartacus workout 2 days and 1 day of more strength body weight stuff (push ups, body weight rows and Bulgarian split squats). I'm thinking to be changing things (again) based on things from Robb's podcast in regards to what is best for leaning out. His advice is pretty similar to what Mark Sisson has in his book, mainly 2 days of strength, 1 day of sprinting and the rest of the days just being active. So I think I will be using a short guide in this month's issue of Men's Health to design my own workout based on what equipment I have on hand. The remaining 5 days I'll wing it. Doing stuff in a pretty unstructured stuff and mix it up, though I'll likely ride my bike a couple days a week.
I definitely feel like I'm still making progress and was able to wear 36" jeans today, which was totally impossible a few weeks ago. They are little snug but not uncomfortable.
Friday, June 24, 2011
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