Food diary, Monday, Jan. 23

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9:30 AM: black coffee
1 PM: ground lamb .63 lb, 3 eggs, a bunch of spinach, all cooked in coconut oil. An apple with some salted roasted almonds.
9 PM: reheated chicken from last night (salsa, lots of coconut oil, a little prosciutto). Two glasses dry white wine.

Exercise: I fell on the steps today on ice and bruised my right-side sacrum. For a while I thought it may have been a joint injury, so for exercise I just did three sets of max press at 53 lbs and three sets of max strict pull-ups, and mopped half the gym floor.

Food diary Sunday, 1/22/2012

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10 AM: black coffee, 3 eggs with ground pork and spinach browned in lard, salsa
6:30 PM: a chicken breast and thigh browned in coconut oil then cooked with prosciutto, salsa, chicken stock, and seasonings. I couldn’t finish the breast. 2 glasses white wine.

Nagging headache all day that I was able to ignore. It woke me up sometime on Sunday night as a bad migraine, so I took Maxalt for it. It didn’t come back on Monday. This was the first migraine in 2012. I do feel that the eating twice a day most days is helping me not get headaches.

Food diary 1/19/2012

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9:15 AM: black coffee. Ground lamb with 2 eggs, spinach, a little kombucha store bought.
2:15 PM: Caramel hot chocolate at Starbucks. Sardines, apple, macadamias.
7:30 PM: .63 lb salmon fillet, 1-2 cups pureed turnips with butter that Tom made. White wine.

Exercise:
10:30 AM: Walked to gym with Tom in icy snow. Tense!

4 PM:
Pistols practice up to 24 kg x 1 per side in WL shoes. Then: AMRAP 20 minutes
5 KB swings (24 kg)
7 KB cleans on 1 side (16 kg)
10 KB deadlifts (24 kg)
I got 14+ rounds. So tired!

Food diary 1/18/2012

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9 AM: Black coffee, 3 eggs scrambled, “several” slices of bacon. Tom cooked.
3 PM: Sardines, apple, some macadamias.
8PM: Steak, kale, 2 glasses white wine

Exercise:
Deadlifts up to 1 at 217. I was planning to do five but was tired for some reason.
Workout:
20 lunges (10 per side with 15 lbs in each hand)
25 push-ups
20 lunges
25 sit-ups
20 lunges
25 long jumps
20 lunges
25 burpees
9:08, not one of the faster people today.

Food diary 1/17/2012

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11 AM: black coffee.
2 PM: ground lamb, 3 eggs, spinach, homemade kombucha, apple, a few almonds.
7:30 PM: almost two “natural” kielbasa, boiled then broiled. Chard and collards sauteed in a mix of coconut oil and butter. Small chocolate bar. Kombucha. Tiny glass of sherry (Yuck).

Exercise: just a few turkish get-ups, pull-ups, and experimenting with two-handed dumbbell get-ups.

Food diary 1/16/2012

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10 AM: black coffee
1 PM: ground lamb with 3 eggs and a bunch of spinach, kombucha, apple, a few almonds (1 almond per large bite of apple)
9 PM: .4 lb grass-fed steak from Madison Market, sauteed chard and collards (market was out of kale and lots of other things because of “the snow scare”). Kombucha.

Exercise:

Lots of Turkish get-ups (12 kg) mixed in with double and single floor presses and RKC arm bar stretch. “SoMo,” rx, 8:46. More TGU and floor press with my classes. Tired / more tired after yesterday’s front squats.

Food diary 1/15/2012

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10 AM: Bing’s sweet potato hash with sausage, peppers, 3 eggs, side of bacon. Coffee.

Exercise: front squats up to three sets of two at 185 (a PR). Very pleased! I put a video on Facebook. Then:

Ascending reps 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, etc as high as possible in 10 minutes of:
2 x 12kg kettlebell swing, clean, pushpress. I got partway through the set of 11… I did 11 swings and some of the cleans.

7 PM: .6 lb “American Kobe style” steak from Uwajimaya, kale, 2 glasses white wine.

Food diary 1/14/2012

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A long, three-meal day.

6:30 AM: 1/3 or 1/2 lb ground pork cooked with two eggs and spinach. Coffee.
12:30 PM: Starbucks hot chocolate. Two grilled sausages – lamb and spicy beef. Half an avocado. Homemade kombucha.
7:45 PM: 3/4 lb of baked salmon and a huge amount of brussels sprouts roasted with bacon. 1 glass white wine.
12 midnight (after getting home from Allen Stone show): 1 glass white wine.

Food diary 1/13/2012

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9 AM: black coffee.
2:15 PM: 1/2 lb ground pork browned with 3 eggs and spinach. Homemade kombucha. Apple. Almonds. Half an hour later I was all bloated in the belly. Somehow I think this was the combination of the apple and the almonds! Next time I’ll try just one or the other.
8 PM: Cheap steak and broccolini and three bites of mashed potatoes, one glass white wine, at Hudson. Later at home, one glass of white wine. It was a two-meal day.

By the time I ate at 2:15 I was hungry and euphoric. Driving home from an errand at U Village at 1:15, hungry, I noticed my mind was darting all over the place about various things I’d do when I got home before going back to the gym. It was a little hyperactive. I often get that way when I’m getting a migraine, but I wasn’t getting a migraine and I haven’t had one in the two weeks I’ve been eating less often. Just a coincidence, so far, I have to think. I was able to calm my thoughts and eat my brunch and relax.

Food diary 1/12/2012

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10 AM: 3 eggs, 1/3 or 1/2 lb ground lamb, cooked in lard with a bunch of spinach. Homemade kombucha. Coffee

Exercise: 6 sets of deadlifts finishing with 3 at 239. Couldn’t pick it up a fourth time! Calc. 1 RM is 263, still better than I’ve ever actually lifted. We had high rep DLs yesterday. I was very close to lifting this five times today and I think if I hadn’t done yesterday’s workout I would have had it. Then: 30 sec on 10 sec off, 6 rounds, KB swings 16kg, 20″ box jump, 20# dumbbell pushpresses, score 285 (unless I miscounted!).

2 PM: sardines, apple, almonds, homemade kombucha
9 PM: .62 lb spencer steak grilled with sauteed kale, 1 glass white wine. It was a 3-meal day. I’m keeping my lunches small on these days and I don’t have the urge to just keep eating. That is a change.