It's been a pretty busy week! I've been working my normal work schedule, exercised almost every day, and even did a 3 mile run in record time (this year :P). I will admit, yesterday was a really low day for me. I had to make a trip to Sacramento to visit the tech department at another school (sort of a meet n' greet), and on the way back started feeling really hungry and light headed, not unlike the first two days of the fast. Thoughts of fried chicken crossed my mind, chinese food, bacon, and just breaking early in general. I was really feeling hungry, and my juice just wasn't doing it!!
When I got home I made a Papaya, mango, and orange smoothie for my girlfriend and I. Within an hour or so I was pretty much back to normal. I'm not entirely sure what happened or why I was suddenly having such a huge dip in energy and resolve. My only guess is that during the day my juice lost some of the nutrients I needed to keep me full and fresh. It wouldn't explain why it hasn't happened already while at work, but I'm at least feeling 100% again. We'll see how today goes, I'm still feeling some cravings, but I think it's just because I love food so much :P
With luck, I'll be ending my fast 1 week from now and will re-introduce myself to solid food next Saturday night. It scares me a little thinking about going back to food. Not so much because of coming off the fast, but because of having to go back to something that I already have a routine in. With the juice fasting, what I'm doing and how I do it doesn't conflict with my old habits and routines in terms of food. Once I'm off the fast, I'll have to re-program how I'm thinking about food, where to buy stuff, how to cook it, etc. Cooking and preparing food in the past always took a good amount of time out of every week... trying to adjust to something new while not knowing what I'm doing is scary because if I can't keep up time wise, I'm afraid of giving in and wasting all of my effort.
Hopefully with any luck and planning I'll be able to lower the maintenance involved in prepping my diet each week. The real crux of all of it I think comes down to how well I plan it out, so if I'm hungry I know what to eat and how much.
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| Nick Husin |
The next phase I'm planning on going into after fasting and establishing good eating habits again is starting Beach Body's Power 90X program. It's been a goal of mine for awhile, but until recently I knew it wouldn't be something I'd really benefit from unless I changed up my eating habits. My goal is to get ripped like this guy. His story's pretty impressive. He basically achieved (with Power 90X & proper diet) what I wanted to do years ago (in high school), but couldn't because of my lack of knowledge and direction. Instead I just got skinny and lean, and didn't really know how to build muscle mass. I've actually gotten in contact with him and have asked him to be my BeachBody coach. We'll see if he accepts, I don't think he agrees with my desire to fast at the moment. I'll give it a week (once I'm finished), and contact him again to see where we're at. In the mean time I'm going to continue chanting to myself "Juice on!", and will probably see Captain America with my girlfriend tonight... just more motivation to get ripped :P
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