Sunday, December 28, 2008

Sunday 28 December 2008

Challenge Alert!!

11am
Harry's burrito in a bowl - 6g

1pm
100ml cream - 2.1g

2.30pm
1/6 SF choc, mixed nuts - 6.5g

7pm
Social BBQ - two satay beef skewers (which I put together myself so it was totally lc), one hamburger rissole, some BBQ chicken and green salad with dressing I made myself - 3g

Beverages
Four glasses of water and half a black cup of tea. Nearly a litre of pepsi max at the BBQ (better than what they were drinking) - 0g

That gives a total of 17.6g carbs for today.

OK, so, CHALLENGE ALERT!!!

On the 16th of Jan I will be climbing through some caves. Now, Oct of 07 I last tried this cave and embarrassingly got stuck. Ahh!! I had a whole crew of people (well, 3) drag me out with lots of pushing and some rope. I do NOT want this to happen again!

Scary thing is, I'm not much different in weight now to what I was then (I gained after that incident and have lost weight again) so I need a bit of a fast forward. Any suggestions? I'm happy to be deprived for a little while - it's only a few weeks. I also plan to go to the gym a lot to build up my muscle which is metabolically active and will physically help me with all the crawling around.

I was initially thinking maybe a liquid fast like Vadim, but after looking at his stats of 22g carbs and 1350 cals I think I can eat proper food for that. So... I don't know!

The reason this is so last minute, is we were to do a nicer cave on the Sat and some rope/harness work on the Sunday but the vote was taken and the majority would prefer to do a cave on Sunday.... and it's THAT cave!

Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4 comments:

  1. I'd be crappin' my pants, Erika! And, I'd be coming up with an excuse to not participate - but that's my way of dealing with situations.

    Did you have any luck with the Kelly Howell CDs? She has a website where you can directly download MP3 files if you don't have luck with ebay or itunes.

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  2. I've done caves before. My problem was more with muscle fatigue than anything. Endurance wise is what I mean, so do lots of repetitions of an exercise for your ankles, etc and let us know how it turns out !

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  3. Let us know how the caves turn out. Good Luck!

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  4. Erika, protein fast can be helpful in many ways, especially if you only do it for a week or two. But it is very hard. I wasnt hungry but I was getting bored and was craving real food. You will loose weigh though really fast. And you will do better then me, you have a better control. Try Isopure brand, it has 0 carbs for 2 scoops and 50 grams of protein. Or even better then protein shakes would be fat fast!

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