Pork Chop's latest workout blog

Wai Jia: The Kung Fu Forum Kung Fu Training and Health
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[QUOTE=JamesC;1128903]Good work Pork Chop!

Just keep getting the work in and you’ll start shedding the weight off. Most important thing is to make sure you get the work in every week, though. Consistency!

We’ll hold you accountable here so don’t let us down and make sure you log your workouts. ;)[/QUOTE]

hehe thanks :slight_smile:
I got my nickname because i would show up at the gym everyday, work hard, and still be a lard azz
So the diet’s very important to me.

Went to weight watchers this morning.
Weight at end of week 1: 245.4lb
Change: -6.8lb from first weight watchers weigh in. Almost -10lb from first unofficial.

I don’t want this to be a short-term thing. I’m in this for the long run. I need to eat in a way that I can continue for the rest of my life, and I have to keep aware of that fact. Trying to establish good habits here, not just bootcamp it for a few weeks. As a result, I’ve got 2 issues with dieting:

  1. Is not getting bored with the food.
  2. Is not getting overwhelmed with the preparation of the food.

For the first issue, I know if I don’t eat stuff I like, I won’t last but a day or so.
So I’ve got a few methods to approach this:

  1. Eat what I like and just adjust portion sizes - this works for a lot of things, but not everything.
  2. Find recipes of stuff that I like that’s healthy from the get go - the only worry about this goes back to issue 2.
  3. Eat what I want from time to time, points be d@mned - this is kind of playing with fire.

I have some other friends that do the weight watchers thing. Every one of them suggests ignoring the diet at least once a week. A couple take a full day off each week. One made it sound like she takes off whenever she gets a serious craving (usually about once a week).

I’m thinking for me, one meal each week of whatever I feel like eating wouldn’t be a bad thing. I’m thinking of splurging on Saturday dinner - so I have a full week of dieting before the next weekend weigh in. As long as I keep it one meal, once a week, I should avoid the trap of ruining a week’s worth of work in 1 day.

Today, I don’t really even feel like the cheat day, but my hope is that if I strike preemptively, I won’t wait until it gets too late and it will still be manageable.

For the second issue, right now I’m trying to scan in a bunch of recipes that I like from various cookbooks. The next step is to calculate points for each recipe and then generate a grocery list of ingredients. Going to buy a week’s worth of groceries tonight. This week is going to be tough because I’m tasked with the cooking. So execution is everything.

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Monday 8/29/2011
Yoga night.
Made me feel pretty light headed afterwards.
Not so much like I had low blood sugar or was dizzy; but like fuzzy.
I think it’s helping me to get my flexibility back though, so it’s all good.

Cooking for myself this week.
Made Vegetarian Enchiladas; didn’t eat till like 9:30.
Definitely had low blood sugar while trying to chop veggies.
Not too fun, but at least I have leftovers for lunch - got tired of subway all the time.

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you’ve probably already heard this before, but in case not. What helps with me when i cook for myself as i don’t like having cold cuts for lunch at work everyday is make a bit extra for dinner, then you can have the rest for dinner the next day. ie: if you’re making chicken, then bbq an extra chicken breast, then use that in a quesadilla the next day. Or make a T-bone steak one night and eat just half, save the other half for tomorrow. Make a decent size lasagna on the weekend and freeze portions that you can just pull out of the freezer when you need to. Make a pot of soup on sunday and freeze portions also.

Just some things i’ve done that work for me.

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Brule
That’s one of my favorite techniques to use when I cook.
I made almost a double serving of enchiladas last night, so I’ve got leftovers for days.
My wife; on the other hand, only makes enough food to eat for one meal.
I’ve even caught her halving the amounts listed in recipes so as to not have “too much”.
I’m not sure why she hates leftovers so much; but it’s really pretty inconvenient.
This week I’m hoping to show her that even if she doesn’t like leftovers, I do.

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Tuesday 8/30/2011
Cardio Bag class tonight.
They changed up the teachers for this month, so it was a bit different than last time.
Did a ton of burpees.
At some point I hit a nasty wall, and at certain points I was in “survival mode”, where I could barely move and just kinda flailed around.
Brutal class.
I noticed that a lot of it is like tabata intervals.
For certain exercises we go ballz out for 20 to 30 seconds and do 10 seconds of active rest.
Cooking tonight was an adventure.
Made spinach turkey lasagna.
Almost fell out a bunch of times.
Food was delicious though (and low calorie).
Don’t know what I’m cooking tomorrow yet tho.

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Wednesday 8/31/2011
Workout today was the crossfitness.
first 20 was a circuit:
lunges for time, flex tube curls for time, 25lb kbell swings for time, pushups for time
second 20 was ab death, with planks, more pushups, and enough leg lifts to kill someone
last 20 was basically tabatas on the bag

I survived a bit better today, but I did have a few bad moments.
kinda wussed on some of the pushups and the ab work.
Afterwards, I was tired, but not quite as shaky as I have been.
Hope it’s a sign that I’m getting better.

Diet the last two days has been solid.
Heck, I’ve actually had a hard time eating enough.
Tonight was yellow fin sashimi and roasted veggies.
I’m full and still have a lot of points left.

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Thursday 9/1/2011
Krav maga class tonight.
I was kind of ambivalent about doing it beforehand.
As a martial art, while I respect the realistic scenario-based self defense stuff, it’s not what I’m interested in.
Plus, I was still very tired from my other workouts earlier in the week.
Luckily, the class was more of a first-timers’ class and very easy.
I even had some fun - my partner was a nice guy.

Diet wise, today I had a bunch of leftovers.
Pretty sure I came in well under points again, but not at all hungry.

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Fruday 9/2/2011
Muay thai tonight
Barely even got a warmup
spent most of the time doing defense/counter drills with a partner.
it was fun and it’s one of the things i really need to work on to get my stuff back.

showed a lot of self control at dinner.
ate a chirashi bowl that wasn’t very big.

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Saturday 9/3/2011
Little disappointing today at the weigh in.
Got about 243, for less than 2lbs lost this week, and 8lbs overall.
Trying to take it in stride, my average is still 4lbs a week, and my goal is time and not weight, so this doesn’t mean anything.
This next week is probably going to be a bad workout week because of school and the vacation.

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Monday 9/5/2011
Didn’t make it to the gym on labor day.
School and family kind of got in the way.
This week is going to be tough - Wednesday evening I have a meeting for a professional group, Thursday night I have class in Houston, not sure I’ll be able to make it back by Friday.
Looking like Tuesday will be my only workout day.
Thinking I’ll hit up muay thai and put in a nice long workout.
Knee started bugging me last week, so I’m hoping I don’t tweak it further.

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Tuesday 9/6/2011
Put in a real muay thai day tonight.
5 rounds jump rope with calisthenics during the rest
stretching routine
more calisthenics (burpees, lunges, calf raises, squat jumps, high knees)
3 rounds of shadow
a bunch of partner work (attack/counter drills)
kicks on the heavybags (35 low round each leg, 35 mid round ea, 35 high round ea, 100 push kicks ea, 10 low round ea on the harder bag, 10 mid round ea hard bag)
some ballistic stretching to finish
took over 2 hours altogether and i still didn’t really hit everything i wanted to hit
the bags are hard as sh!t these days so my legs got torn up

diet-wise, i’ve been doing good except for my cheat day.
I think i way over did it on the sushi on saturday.
my weight jumped up 6+ pounds on saturday and even today (tues) i’m still 3lbs over what I was saturday morning.
Calorie-wise, the idea of 18000+ calories in 1 day (let alone one meal) makes absolutely no sense; but the weight fluctuation is kinda crazy…

I have a feeling that this saturday’s weigh-in is going to go bad…
The idea behind saturdays was a meal where I could eat what I wanted without worrying about points; not an excuse to pig out until I get sick - so I’m going to have to do a better job on saturdays.

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18000+ calories in 1 day who told you to intake this much energy?

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[QUOTE=viper;1131549]18000+ calories in 1 day who told you to intake this much energy?[/QUOTE]

sorry if that was confusing.
apparently i gained 6 pounds in 1 day.
there are 3000 calories in 1 pound of fat.
that would require a calorie intake of 18000+ calories in that one day to gain 6lbs of fat.
as bad as I pigged out, I don’t think i pigged out THAT much.
then again, muscle is supposed to be something like 600 to 800 calories per pound; so there is that possibility.

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Did you take into account your hydration status which can affect the weight a bit more then you think.

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[QUOTE=viper;1131835]Did you take into account your hydration status which can affect the weight a bit more then you think.[/QUOTE]

good point
last weigh in was on tuesday
i think it was in the morning
i was still 3lbs over
hoping to be okay by saturday, but no guarantees given the fact that i won’t be able to work out.

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Why do you have cheat days is your diet bodybuilder strict?

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[QUOTE=viper;1132073]Why do you have cheat days is your diet bodybuilder strict?[/QUOTE]

My definition of “bodybuilder strict”, is eating the same bland food over and over.
My diet is not this type of diet.
There are, however, foods that I can not eat while on this diet.
Some of these foods are some of my favorite things to eat.
These foods are typically foods that have extremely high calories or fat; or foods that I have no applicable nutrition info for - even with online assistance like Livestrong with nutrition info for over 75,000 different foods.

My point of having the cheat meal is so that I can have one meal a week without stressing over counting points (calories) or worrying about getting the healthier option.
If I want chicken strips from popeyes, buffalo wings from wingstop, pizza, fried sushi rolls, a double cheeseburger, etc; Saturday night is my night to get that in. I just need to remember to just eat what I want, not just eat till i get get sick.

Didn’t have time to eat last night between the round trip to houston and my masters course.
Weighed myself this morning and I was 4 pounds under my weight from last saturday (7 pounds lower than tuesday). Going to do muay thai tonight and stay the course. If the weight stays somewhat consistent for tomorrow’s weigh in, then it’s some nice progress. 49 more weeks and I’ll be at my goal.

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Friday 9/9/2011
Muay thai tonight.
hit it from about 5:45 to 7:30.
jump rope
calisthenics
stretching
then a ton of technique work with a partner

no bag or shadow, but i didn’t have much choice, and there’s a limit on how much time i can spend down there.

Dinner was a nice salad of chicken & veggies with olive oil over spinach. Tasty. :slight_smile:

We’ll see what tomorrow brings

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Monday 9/12/2011
Yoga tonight
think i’m getting better, some of it still hard.
left shoulder bugging me a bit in the back (left rear delt).

pepper encrusted tuna steak for dinner.
diet’s going pretty well.
was 240.6 for my last weigh-in, 11.6lbs overall.

think i’m going to switch up the schedule.
not a huge fan of the krav maga class.
their fitness classes are cool, but the martial art itself is kinda “meh” - just not my mentality.
I’m going to try to switch out thursday’s KM level 1 class with All-in-all-out.
Depends on whether or not All-in-all-out has the KM 1 prereq like the Fit-to-fight class; which requires you to pass the km1 test before you can take it.
new schedule would look like this:
monday - yoga
tuesday - muay thai
wednesday - cross fitness (cross training)
thursday - all-in-all-out (more crosstraining) [or the cardio bag class]
friday - muay thai

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Peeing and taking a big dump can cause you to lose a few pounds, too.

I agree with viper; some of it was likely water weight.

You didn’t eat 18,000 calories in one day unless you like drank butter all day or something.