Woke up around 9:00 AM. I didn't really feel very hungry for a couple hours, but I was sure the hunger would set in soon enough. I began to feel the hunger around 11:00 AM, so I ate an apple around noon. I didn't do a lot today, I just mainly sat around. I went out to a get-together at 7:00 PM. Around 7:30 PM or something, had a small handful of strawberries, and had a small handful of grapes. Unfortunately, food was provided at the get-together, but it wasn't very hard to resist eating the food. It was mainly unhealthy food like soda, chips, and desserts. Could this be what Ori Hofmekler says about your body instinctively knowing what to eat? I came home and ate at 11:30 PM. Pasta and ground beef and some kind of sauce. And a corn/carrots/peas mix, mixed in with the pasta/beef. I think I may have eaten too much, because I felt a bit sick afterwards. However, I felt a bit better by 12:15 PM. I went to bed at 12:30 PM, and fell asleep pretty quick. First day down.
Concluding thoughts: The hunger pangs aren't particularly bad, which means they didn't make it too hard to follow this diet. Maybe this is just because it's the first day, but we'll see. Didn't notice too much about being alert and all that stuff, but then again I feel fairly alert most days.
Saturday, April 14, 2007
History 101
Just to get this on the record - this is a brief history of my physical activity levels recently, in order to put this diet into perspective.
In September, I began weight training in order to train for rugby season, but also for the sheer joy of it. Yes, I actually enjoy working out, something that many of my friends don't understand. I was doing three sets of ten reps for each excercise, and I usually did around three exercises for each body part, as well as some random core exercises at the end of the workout each day. I worked out five days a week, from around 3:30-5:00 in the afternoon. In December, I began to add some cardio HIIT to my program, in order to get my cardio into better shape for rugby.
Up until this point, I had been gaining weight. I started at around 185 pounds after dinner, and had moved up to around 197-198 pounds after dinner. However, with the addition of the cardio, I stopped gaining weight. In fact, I began to lose some weight, and dropped down to around 194-195 pounds after dinner.
Then rugby season started, and during the first two to two and a half weeks, I dropped down another couple of pounds. On Tuesday, March 27th, I suffered a minor concussion. I ceased all physical activity, and took Thursday and Friday of that week off school. I then got sick just before going away for Spring Break, and on Thursday, April 5th, I received another heavy blow to the head, prolonging my concussion. When I got back after spring break, on the 7th, I was mostly recovered from my sickness, but I had lost around five pounds, bringing me down to around 185-186 pounds after dinner. I then decided that since I wasn't able to train, I had better look at my nutrition, since I had always been told that nutrition is at least 50% of your athletic performance, and I had been meaning to do something about my nutrition for some time.
I did extensive reading on www.bodybuilding.com on diets. Fat loss diets in particular. After reading an article and deciding to make my carbs/protein/fat intake equal to 40%/40%/20% of my caloric intake, and counting up all my calories for the day, and grams of carbs/protein/fat, I read an article about the Warrior Diet. It sounded pretty sketchy, and I was very skeptical at first. However, I figured since the guy who conducted the interview in the article said it worked for him, there's gotta be some element of truth to it. I then did a lot more research into the Warrior Diet, and found that there did seem to be quite some good scientific evidence behind it, even though it contradicts most of what we are told nowadays by most nutritionists. Something about the Warrior Diet seemed to strike a chord within me, and I became convicted to try it. I figured that you can't really say whether or not a diet works or not unless you try it yourself, and since almost all of what I read from people who tried it said that it works really well, so I figured there must be some basis of truth to it.
So here I am, starting the Warrior Diet, and keeping this blog to record my progress. With any luck, it will turn out well. My goals are mainly to have fat loss, and not a lot of muscle loss. However, I anticipate some muscle loss due to my inactivity because of my concussion. I will also attempt to evaluate the effect of the Warrior Diet upon physical activity (ie. energy levels during exertion when the Warrior Diet is undertaken).
I'm 16 years old, ~5'10", ~185 pounds, and undertaking the Warrior Diet. Stay tuned.
In September, I began weight training in order to train for rugby season, but also for the sheer joy of it. Yes, I actually enjoy working out, something that many of my friends don't understand. I was doing three sets of ten reps for each excercise, and I usually did around three exercises for each body part, as well as some random core exercises at the end of the workout each day. I worked out five days a week, from around 3:30-5:00 in the afternoon. In December, I began to add some cardio HIIT to my program, in order to get my cardio into better shape for rugby.
Up until this point, I had been gaining weight. I started at around 185 pounds after dinner, and had moved up to around 197-198 pounds after dinner. However, with the addition of the cardio, I stopped gaining weight. In fact, I began to lose some weight, and dropped down to around 194-195 pounds after dinner.
Then rugby season started, and during the first two to two and a half weeks, I dropped down another couple of pounds. On Tuesday, March 27th, I suffered a minor concussion. I ceased all physical activity, and took Thursday and Friday of that week off school. I then got sick just before going away for Spring Break, and on Thursday, April 5th, I received another heavy blow to the head, prolonging my concussion. When I got back after spring break, on the 7th, I was mostly recovered from my sickness, but I had lost around five pounds, bringing me down to around 185-186 pounds after dinner. I then decided that since I wasn't able to train, I had better look at my nutrition, since I had always been told that nutrition is at least 50% of your athletic performance, and I had been meaning to do something about my nutrition for some time.
I did extensive reading on www.bodybuilding.com on diets. Fat loss diets in particular. After reading an article and deciding to make my carbs/protein/fat intake equal to 40%/40%/20% of my caloric intake, and counting up all my calories for the day, and grams of carbs/protein/fat, I read an article about the Warrior Diet. It sounded pretty sketchy, and I was very skeptical at first. However, I figured since the guy who conducted the interview in the article said it worked for him, there's gotta be some element of truth to it. I then did a lot more research into the Warrior Diet, and found that there did seem to be quite some good scientific evidence behind it, even though it contradicts most of what we are told nowadays by most nutritionists. Something about the Warrior Diet seemed to strike a chord within me, and I became convicted to try it. I figured that you can't really say whether or not a diet works or not unless you try it yourself, and since almost all of what I read from people who tried it said that it works really well, so I figured there must be some basis of truth to it.
So here I am, starting the Warrior Diet, and keeping this blog to record my progress. With any luck, it will turn out well. My goals are mainly to have fat loss, and not a lot of muscle loss. However, I anticipate some muscle loss due to my inactivity because of my concussion. I will also attempt to evaluate the effect of the Warrior Diet upon physical activity (ie. energy levels during exertion when the Warrior Diet is undertaken).
I'm 16 years old, ~5'10", ~185 pounds, and undertaking the Warrior Diet. Stay tuned.
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