Last night was the first Orlando area Body-for-Life Meetup group event I have attended. Perhaps other BFL Meetup groups are more active, but since I signed up for the group last year, I think there has only been one previous event. Anyhow, after learning that transformation coach Eric Shrieves would be the guest speaker at this function and that other local fit-heads like me would be present (Tanisha/Chameleon and Chris/1FastGTX from the John Stone Fitness forums and Chris’s girlfriend Rebecca), I RSVP’ed for myself (alas, my boyfriend had to be at his martial arts school last night for instruction by his national instructors) and headed over after work.

The group was relatively small, so instead of presenting in his usual seminar format, Eric had us do a roundtable instead and opened the floor up for questions and personal stories. One of the more interesting exercises was listing what you’d like to have as your final meal if you were on death row.

I said I’d like to have Chinese Beef Noodle Soup with a ton of bean sprouts, spinach, and other leafy greens and half a carrot cake minus the nasty frosting.

Oh, and a huge mountain of sushi.

I was told that my final meal was still too healthy if you didn’t count the cake.

What can I say? I LOVE my Asian food, and, as I pointed out last night, my fluffiness was never really due to bad food choices. It was more of an issue with liking the healthy stuff so much that I ate too much of it while I was nearly 100% sedentary.

Some other interesting tidbits gleaned from last night:
- Intensity vs. duration is the key to both muscle hypertrophy and more effective, efficient cardio.
- When trying to just gain lean mass, a macronutrient ratio of 50/30/20 c/p/f is recommended.
- When trying to lose fat, switch the ratio to 30/50/20 c/p/f.

I also got another free sample of the BFL Cookies and Creme bar. I had it as breakfast this morning because, frankly, I needed the carbs before attempting an unauthorized-on-SGX HIIT run. Hehe. I know. Bad me.

Anyway, the bar wasn’t that bad. No headaches, though I did get a stitch in my side 18 minutes into my run.

I’ve been logging my meals and workouts into Diet Power for the past two weeks since I can’t post my meals in my blog while I’m following Swolegenix. So far it’s been working pretty well. My metabolic rate has been skewing upwards from the default of 1815 calories to its current high of 1998. This makes me a happy camper as it means I can essentially eat more and still lose weight. Shoot, according to DP, I can sit on my ass and do nothing but breathe all day and still lose 1.12 pounds a week by just eating around 1429 calories a day! I’m not going to do that, of course, but it’s rather heartening to know my metabolism is still alive and kicking.

SGX nutrition continues to go well. I had some cottage cheese the other day (have to use up the last of my pre-SGX food), and nearly threw it back up. Have I lost my hard-won acclimatization to chunky dairy products in just 10 days? Possibly. I had to take two emergency Lactaid just to get rid of the nausea from eating 3/4 c. of 1% CC with blueberries. I also coincidentally had my highest weigh-in of the week at 135.8 lbs the very next day.

Dairy = Bloat

I don’t really miss it at all, and my stomach seems to be much happier with me when I’m not trying to dump two or three servings of dairy into my digestive tract. I guess I must sadly face a lifetime of no cottage cheese.

Boohoohoo. :claphigh::claphigh:

Good thing yogurt is low in lactose and doesn’t affect me the same way. I do enjoy my yogurt banana protein shakes when I’m on a more maintenance-oriented diet.

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Nutrition: SGX Non-Training Day Menu
(Details omitted by request of trainer)

Daily Supplements: multivitamin with iron, calcium 500 + D, 1 T. flaxseed oil or natural peanut butter, 1 t. GNC Creastack
Water: 16 cups minimum

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Workout:
8:30 AM LISS Cardio - Treadmill (3.5 mph / 10% incline / 27 minutes)
9:00 AM HIIT Cardio - Treadmill (4.5-7.0 mph / 0-5% incline / 18 minutes)

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The Awful Truth:
1. Didn’t get evening cardio in last night after BFL event. Will make it up on Sunday.

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Brownie Points:
1. Ate prepared dinner at 7 pm before heading out to Whistle Junction for BFL Orlando Meetup and was therefore not tempted to get anything at the restaurant.
2. Have logged all meals and exercise faithfully into Diet Power since starting SGX again.
3. Got plenty of sleep 3 nights in a row.
4. Upper body is looking leaner in the mirror again. :claphigh:

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Short-term Goals:
1. Do the laundry. Sigh.
2. File papers on drafting table.
3. Start Freehand 10 tutorials and finish by 8/11.
4. Rearrange living room into efficient home mini-gym.
5. Get through next three chapters of NASM manual.
6. Cook cabbage, zucchini, and other misc. veggies in fridge.