Unfaithful

From across the room you see them.  As you begin your approach, you realize that you shouldn't be doing this, you don't care though.  The thought of putting it in your mouth is all that matters.  All thoughts of what you should be doing are gone, the only thing going through your mind is lustful thoughts.  Then...it touches your lips and a feeling of euphoria sweeps throughout your body.  You can't help but smile as you ravage what is in front of you. The sweet tastes dance in your mouth, the smell lingers in the air.  As you finish, you feel completely satisfied....

That is until guilt sets in.  Should I have done that? (prolly not)  What will happen now? (might get yelled at by your trainer)  Was it worth it? (undoubtedly yes)  Then you realize..you can't wait to do it again.

You guys know I'm talking about food here right?

Cheating on your diet is something that happens.  You can not avoid it.  In fact, I will argue that you SHOULD cheat on your diet.  If you love a certain food, then by all means enjoy it.  But what you have to do is not over indulge.  If ice cream is your vice, then get a small cone, or a small sundae.  There is no need to get a 3 scoop cone and then follow it up with a large blizzard (who does that? ;-)   Use the food as a reward for putting in a  lot of effort for the week.  This isn't modern little league where you get a "participation trophy", which is just crap, you should only get a reward if you EARN it.  If you tell yourself that, then you will likely put in more effort so then the reward tastes even sweeter.

WOD

Dynamic Warm-up
WOD:  7 minutes to find max balance snatch; 3 min hand stand walk; 2 min max double unders

Dynamic warm up was an 800m run, 500m row then a lot of stretching
WOD:  It was the first time doing the balance snatch so there was a bit of a learning curve here but I got 105 lbs.  I think I could have done more but just ran out of time.

It was also the first time doing the hand stand walk.  That was ummm..fun?  I did like it actually and I really wanna practice it a lot more.  I made it 41 feet.

Double unders I am starting to do a LOT better with.  I broke the 100 barrier and got 105 in 2 minutes.


DIET


I am reintroducing the diet section here because it helps me track it a lot better.  I cheated yesterday, but for good reason.  Karen and I went to Musikfest and trying to find healthy food there is near impossible.  Regardless, I did find steak on a stick at the "Made in Brazil" food booth.  It was delicious.  I followed it up with a soft pretzel and then a root beer float.  I did well with lunch and breakfast though.  3 eggs, apple, plum, chicken garden salad, and some cashews.  So all in all...I'm chalking it up as a win.

There is always a time

If you diet regularly you have likely heard of the Glycemic Index.  In it’s simplest form, it is just a measure of the effect of carbs on blood sugar levels.  But why is that important?  It is important because if your body receives too much sugar and can not burn it off fast enough it begins to store it.  The method of storage is actually FAT!  I might be the only person on earth who did not know this..I thought the fat on my body was from eating fatty foods and that gets stored.  I don’t know if I could have been more wrong.  I was thinking..I’ll eat a bunch of gummy bears instead of mcdonalds…look they have no fat so they won’t add to my waistline..just might make me hyper.  D’oh!  

They are evil...pure delicious evil.  

Even paleo foods contain sugars so recently I have been trying to front load my day with the foods that contain the most sugar, specifically fruit.  On a recommendation from trainer Evan, I try to eat all my fruits before about 1pm.   If I do have fruit in the afternoon or evening, I try to make it a low GI fruit so that my sugar is limited.  In the past week it has really helped me take off a few pounds and makes it easier to sleep at night actually (both could be more cause of the exercise, but it couldn't have hurt).  Below is a good chart that shows the GI index for some fruits.

WOD

I have done something like 14 WODS in a row (to the gym 13 of the last 14 days)  so I am taking a big breather this weekend by camping.  Of course, I'll stay active with a light jog or some swimming but nothing rigorous, gotta let the body heal.

July 4th Weekend - Falling off the Wagon Hurts

All around this past weekend was Amazing, one of the best weekends I've had in a long time.  Accomplished a lot around the house, had a few great workouts and hung with friends.  Food wise....yeah not as great.  I did poorly with my food.  Ice Cream, wings, soft pretzels...I could not avoid them.  They are three of my favorite things and they were in front of me a lot.  In fact one of the more hilarious conversations took place because of the ice cream.

Dennis (holding a pint of ice cream): This is my last spoonful

Jackie:   Wow Dennis, you really have some self control

Dennis:  no...It's because there is none left.

I downed a pint of ice cream in about 15 minutes.  14 year old girls who just got dumped could not compete with me.  I'd have beaten Kobiyashi in eating ice cream.  I couldn't help it...it was SO DELICIOUS!  

So what now? How do you recover from food infidelity?  Well...it's like riding a bike...you have to have a short memory and just get right back on.  You have to know how to forget when it comes to dieting, you're gonna make mistakes.  If you stress over them it will cause more harm than good.  So this week, I will forget that happened.  I'll lose the points and just get on getting on.  

End of the bike ride

Workouts

Saturday my wife, a friend and myself rode the bike trail from Valley Forge park to the Philadelphia museum of art.  It was by far the longest ride of my life at 44 miles round trip.  Trip details can be found here.

The Ride

Sunday was partner WOD day at Crossfit610 and it was a fun one actually.  While one partner held a position the other had to do as many reps as possible of a motion.

1. WALL SITS WITH PUSH PRESS (95/65)
2. PLANK HOLD WITH MAX PULLUPS
3. HANDSTAND HOLD WITH ABMAT SITUPS
4. RING DIP HOLDS (SUB BOX HOLDS) - PISTOLS
5. 200M RUN WITH ROW FOR CALORIES

I did the prescribed motion!!!  I can now do the 95lb push press which is really exciting for me.  I'm moving up in weights very quickly now, even as I am not losing a lot of weight.

Diet

a mess.  I did not add up the points yet, but Sunday is likely <10 and Saturday is prolly a lot of the same.