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Fast Day Weigh-in
58 Hours Fasted; 54 Hours to Go
49 Days on Cut; 8 on Final Sprint
Weighed in at 188.4#, back to my Friday morning pre-feast low. That was my goal. Also, fat down another 0.4# and waist down 3/4" to 32". I know. Doesn't seem real to me either. Waist looks mostly like the same nasty gushy mountain bike tire it has for the last couple weeks. Slightly smaller and barely more aesthetic, but def NOT almost an inch smaller. The last 3/4" of waist I lost took 10 days and the 3/4" before that 15+. Totally implausible to now make the same move in 72 hours. Not feeling the win, which only serves to drive home the main point. Unless the mirror's right, and it's not (YET), the rest of this stuff is academic.
3.5# of fat away from my next target of 18.5#. If that comes mostly off my waistline, it seems like about where I want to be visually.
"Broke" my fast again with the late night cooking last night. Pop (90) came down around 9, right in the heart of the most difficult time for control. Cooked him up a couple chili cheese dogs. Grilled buns slathered in garlic butter, dogs split on the grill, topped with melted cheddar, homemade chile, and my homemade chipotle cream sauce. "Sampled" the chile to get the spice right. Also refused to waste the beautiful crust of melted cheddar in the bottom of my skillet. Total damage = 67KCal/0carbs.
Woke up angry AF this morning. Reeeaaally bad. No clear reason, just overwhelming negative emotions racing. Went through my full weigh-in protocol for S&Gs, which includes BP. (BTW - My blood pressure is down from the high teens into the 90s, just like high school, since I started fasting.) The BP monitor showed heartrate in the high 90s. WTF! Then I sort of checked in and realized that I was feeling a little funky physically and that elevated HR can be a precursor to palpitations. And the answer is....
...always electrolytes...
Multiple resources advocate consuming electrolytes while fasting or even while on a cut. Recommendations are all over the place. I have historically taken an as-needed approach to electrolyte supplementation, with my primary trigger being cramping in the weight room. Recently, I have been listening to the Snake Diet guy on youtube, who advocates consuming at least a litre of water spiked with 2,000mg sodium and 4,000mg potassium (or something like that) every day. That represents about 3/4 of a bottle of my go to salt caps, which last me months. So yesterday pre-track, I mixed up a liter of water with like 3/4 teaspoon of No Salt, which translates to about 1/2 his recipe. One swig and I though I was going to puke. Not for me. Anyway, I brought that crap home and later in the day experimented with ways to make it palatable. Ended up brewing up a stevia sweetened green tea limon Arnold Palmer type thing that is actually good. And the point is...
I just chugged a litre of that shiznit while typing this and now feel great! Antisocial mood disorder gone. Thankfully.
Def sore in the legs after Squats and Track Day back to back, but not stiff, Flexibility and range of motion seem pretty good.
Game time.
Let's go!
#next #grindtimeAF
Diet Calendar Entry for 18 June 2018:
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77 kcal
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Fat: 3.04g | Prot: 10.58g | Carb: 2.22g.
Snacks/Other: Broccoli Flower Clusters, Kroger Sliced Water Chestnuts, Snow or Sugar Snap Peas, Beef Top Sirloin (Lean Only, Trimmed to 1/8" Fat, Choice Grade), Kroger Unsalted Peanuts. more...
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