A boat full of carbs

Breakfast was lots of different hams and cheeses (bought some great Spanish ones), lunch was pork and chicken with sweet potatoes (yesterday's left overs). I had more ham, cheese and olives later. After the gym I had strawberry milk with protein.

A very hard session at the gym today. The warmup was around 50 press ups, both wide and triceps ones and then we had 3 sets of 2mins intervals of 8 exercises with the worst of all being the one with the huge ropes that you have to move up and down, no idea how it's called but it was brutal, it left me breathless in less than 30secs.

The carbs after the workouts now seem to work, my legs were in much better shape today than last week. It might also be that was on a high cadence for most of the duration of the spin, around 100.

So yesterday breakfast was cheese, brazil nuts, an egg and two slices of bacon. Lunch was smoked cod with poached eggs and hollandaise sauce and peas. For dinner I had chicken with spinach salad.

Training was 40k very slow spin.

Today's breakfast was 5 different types of cheeses and 4 different types of ham along with some nuts. Lunch was 6 angus beef sausages and then I fell off the wagon quite spectacularly, first time I started the diet like this. I had sugar cravings all week that I was trying to fight, I guess because I reintroduced chocolate milk and protein? Anyway, I had two chocolate brioche with nutella, a flapjack with marshmellows and a redbull before the gym. Now I am having milk with protein.. With that much sugar and the redbull after so long, I expect not to sleep at all today lol.

Training was an hour in the gym in a very hard session again, lots and lots of pullups, pressups and core work.

Since I started the diet or since I started the gym?

Weight has come down 3kgs and has stabilized at 78kgs at the moment. Bodyfat is down 5% and I am looking more lean. But I wouldn't say I 've seen any difference in strength or stamina on the bike, I am only out 2 times a week, so I don't expect any miracles at this time of year. My cycling is still adapting on the fat burning, I have a lot of work in order to train it like that. Good news is that on the last Sundays spin which was 80k I didn't eat anything at all, although I had a massive steak and egg breakfast.

In other news I was supposed to have done blood tests last week, but my gp annoyed the hell out of me telling me that I am going to die from cholesterol and i only need to see HDL and LDL without even hearing my arguments, so I waved him goodbye and going to find another one who's at least willing to hear me out and do the proper testing. You know you 've gone too far when you argue with doctors about what's right and wrong

Done

I am wearing some jeans today that I haven't put for a long time because they were very tight on the thighs and the stomach. Now they were very loose in the stomach and loose on the thighs. Not sure if that's a good thing..

I actually did more this week. Monday I was in the the gym again for an hour, tuesday one hour spin, wed one hour spin and last night to the gym.

I had the recovery drink only on monday, I didn't get tired in those 1h spins, they were very relaxed just to spin the legs. The trainers were sure that the reason I could lift so much was exactly because of cycling, strong glutes and hamstrings.

The gym goes well, the bike I am not so sure, I seem to be getting slower getting up hills.

I 've been suffering from sugar cravings and I don't know why, especially late in night. I haven't changed anything in the diet apart from adding milk and protein after the trainings. For example yesterday I had bacon, eggs and cheese for breakfast, chicken with salad for lunch and pork fillet cooked in coconut oil and milk and stir fried vegs and also oven baked cauliflower with olive oil, salt pepper and grated parmesan on top. After 10-20mins of what was a really good meal and with plenty of fat I had the urge for something sweet and had an apple, but that wasn't enough. The same thing has been happening the last week or so, not sure what's going on

Oh.. I also decided that each Tuesday I would be going up the sally gap for as long as there is no ice, I need to HTFU It's only 25k from my house to the crossroads so there's no excuse of why I shouldn't be doing it.

Oh...

http://www.joe.ie/joe-life/life-features/pic-anyone-for-the-1100-calorie-burger-that-is-dinner-and-desert-rolled-into-one/



I would probably have that haha

So I was talking to my father about the diet and how lately I feel the need for something sweet and he pointed me to something that I had in the house (and had forgotten) and it's originally made in my fathers island.



Tha name is Mantolato (I think it might be called nugat in english? ) and it's only, egg whites, almonds and pure honey. (yes I know there is sugar in honey but still)

It is indeed a slippery slope, I think it's a good choice for emergencies.

But my question comes back to.. why do I get sugar cravings? I can think of three things:

1) It's much harder to get rid of years of bad habits
2) I am not eating as ideal as I think I am
3) My body is not adapted fully to the new diet

Maybe all of the above maybe none of the above. I am fighting it though!