Change
What a crap run. I ate too late, started too fast, felt like shite and did six miles in an hour. None of them comfortably.
I need to get my eating in order if I want to get fitter. Craig’s high fat/low carb diet certainly sounds like it’s working for him but for us veggies it gets a bit more difficult. I think what I need to do at a much simpler level is just stop eating so much of the same things. Pasta one night. Baked potato the next. Curry on a big bed of rice the night after.
I should be mixing that up a lot more so I’ll order myself some of the low carb recipe books and, without going mad about it, try and bring in more balance to my diet.
Oh, and not eat a massive fucking plateful before going on a run. How many times do I need to make the same mistake?
Okay,
For veggies it’s just as easy. You give me a couple of measurements and your activity level, I crunch the numbers and come back with your prescription for food intake. You and I discuss vegetarian options for said food prescription, or you buy “The Soy Zone” by Barry Sears. Either way, if you have the balls to weigh and measure your food for 2-4 weeks (by that point you’ll have a good understanding of what size of portion you should be eating), your performance, energy levels and athletic ability will go through the roof.
Being vego used to be fine with me, until I found out that is has the propensity to produce an even worse systemic increase in hyperinsulemia due to carbs replacing protein to a huge degree, when handled incorrectly. Not only the average vegetarian diet going to make you protein malnourished (unless you’re spot on with protein intake) it will also promote cardiovascular heart disease, hypertension, obesity, high triglycerides and type 2 diabetes in a sedentary person – simply because of the excessive consumption of carbs.
Yikes.
By the time I come back from this US trip in May, I will be tooled officially to make you the best athlete you can possible be. And you’ll never run further than 13 miles in training. Ever. No matter what distance you intend to run in a race.
How’s that for a thinking cap full of juice?
I’d certainly be interested to see what your numbers are compared to other figures out there. Getting into weighing my food and worrying about every meal would never work for me though, it’s simply not who I am. Or rather, it’s the type of thing I could easily see myself getting heavily paranoid over and obsessing with. Not good.
At the moment, simply reintroducing higher protein meals is what I need to do. It’s a really easy thing to do, I’ve just been slack.
Oh, and more exercise. Always more exercise.