Friday, Day 7, Week 1

First day of doing anything remotely physically demanding today. Working with a guy who is building his own house, so moving some drywall around, general cleanup, etc. Brought some grapes with me, two strawberries, and an apple. Didn't eat the apple, but enjoyed the strawberries and the grapes. Didn't drink much water. I did a bunch of lifting of drywall today. If we had two people lifting one 8'x4' piece of drywall, it wasn't too heavy, so I figured my concussion would be ok. Most of what I did was lifting drywall, though, so after about four hours my head started to hurt. So I switched to vacuuming duty instead, but the bending over wasn't exactly the best thing for my head either.

After I got home I ate 4 slices of Honey Maple Turkey Breast. 20% meat protein, 100g. Very little carbs, very little fat. I ate this because I wanted to make sure that my muscles had some protein after doing the lifting, and I'd heard that you're recommended to eat around 20-30g protein after exercise when on the Warrior Diet.

I didn't eat again until dinner, at 8:00. I continued to eat until 8:50. I started out with omlette (eggs, ham, and cheese). That was about 1/3 of a plate. I then moved on to about 1/3 of a plate of meat loaf (it was only about a quarter inch high, though). I then proceeded to have two buns. In each of the buns was a piece of maple flavoured ham (same as from yesterday) that was about a quarter inch thick and around 4 inches across. There was also a slice of cheese in there.

I estimate that it was more than two meals there. Funny thing is that I didn't even feel that gross-bloated-sick feeling that I always used to feel when overeating. I just felt the, "Mmmmmmm, so good" feeling of having a ridiculously full stomach. However, I felt very drowsy afterwards, and like I was trying to think through a fog. I went to bed at 10:30.

My concussion effects lasted from 1:00 until around dinner, and after that I'm not sure if it was the food or the concussion, but I definitely felt drowsy, and it was hard to think, and I felt very odd in the head. Probably the concussion. That's not good.

Concluding thoughts: The concussion is still bad, so I think it will probably be at least another two weeks from now before I can do training again, probably more like a month. As for the food, I think the drowsiness after dinner was due to the food, and partly the feeling like I was thinking through a fog. I notice the difference now between post-food alertness/brain function and pre-food brain function. I think this is because before it was always the same level throughout the day because of the 4-meal thing, but now there is actually a difference, so I notice it.