The New Dots
(Day 10.) So besides the mad exercise, it's also week 2 of the Mad High-Protein Diet now. That's going pretty well…I'm sure I'm overshooting the carbs a little, and I should be eating more vegetables (always), but so far so good.
Points:
- A small glass of chocolate milk is a surprisingly satisfying breakfast. It's my recovery/after workout drink (I've talked about that already), but since I work out first thing in the a.m. and then go to work, I usually don't eat again until lunch, and surprisingly I'm experiencing less before-lunch hunger doing that than I was eating two pieces of toast (granted, earlier in the a.m., but without the exercise). Odd, but nifty.
- I'm getting sick of tuna. And I like tuna!
- I am, however, becoming a big fan of turkey jerky. And I like Trader Joe's chocolate-flavored protein powder too, though combined with my third-grade-jealousy-worthy recovery/breakfast drinks, I'm starting to feel like I live on chocolate milk. (And meat.) I may switch to soy-or-something-else milk for one of them to reduce my dairy intake, but since my body is generally dairy-friendly and those two glasses of milk are all I get on this diet, that may be fine the way it is too.
- This is not a diet for vegetarians. I mean, I'm sure it's possible, but it's hard enough for me and I've always been heavy on the carnivore side. I think vegetarians couldn't eat anything but protein powder?? OK, but they'd do a better job getting more vegetables than I do, granted.
- I'm using the Dots for calorie-counting, but I figured out how to make them a little less conspicuous: Bracelet Dots! They generally stick around a day or two, so there's a sort of half-faded bracelet of them when they go all the way. (1 dot = 100 kcal, by the way. The pic was taken of the first set, when I got the idea, so you can't really see the bracelet effect, but it's working nicely.) I'm aiming for 1800 cal/day to support the workouts; I usually hit between 1600 and 1800. It feels like a lot, since my usual is 1400, but then again, it's a lot of exercise too. ;)
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