You know that thing I said earlier about how it discourages me from exercising? Well, I forgot to mention it also destroys my diet. Just a few days after I vowed to eat healthier I had mad cravings for a slice of chocolate cake! I just had chocolate "cheese"cake on Friday at the raw restaurant so I know I wasn't craving it because I was lacking it. Let's go over what I ate yesterday, shall we:
20oz hemp berry shake (42 oz protein, 9g fat, 9g carbs)
banana
tofu soup
asian pear
apple
nuts
more tofu soup
- this is where my chocolate craving kicked in. Unfortunately Food+Lab on SL Blvd didn't have any choc cake so I substituted... -
ice cream sandwich (snickerdoodle with caramel and salt ice cream from Coolhaus, freakin delicious!!)
4 pieces of fudge
1/2 an almond croissant from Paris Baguette
slice of packaged tiramisu
- Plyometrics -
8oz protein shake (25g protein, 0 fat, 0 carbs)
3 pcs chocolate
As you can see, this is vastly different from Monday, when I was overly stuffed after 1300 calories. This was probably around 2000 calories. I was RAVENOUS, and it wasn't because I wasn't eating anything of value in the middle of they day. I was also really hungry in the morning even after eating what I normally eat which usually satiates me enough. Luckily, those cravings only last for about a day, then they're over. Today should be better. The hard part is getting back on track. Today I have banh mi, and even though I basically hollow out the bread, it's still a lot of carbs, and I had a banana this morning in my smoothie too, so I might need to make sure to tone down the carbs tomorrow. And surprise surprise, yesterday I felt bloated thanks to all this carbo-loading.
Interestingly enough, my performance during Plyometrics today was much better than Monday's work out. All those carbs did the work they're supposed to do, but I'm supposed to chill out on the carbs and up the protein so my body can burn fat and build muscle. This is where I have the question I've been wondering for a few years: Am I supposed to sacrifice a workout sesh where I last longer and I'm able to do more of the exercises for eating more strictly on my diet plan and not doing as many of the exercises for as long? My gut tells me the latter, as I know exercise is practically nothing if not completely nothing without eating right, and I can always improve my endurance.
