Author: Robert Ford

This is an odd collection of characters. It’s time to see The Falls.

Mutant Diet Phase 10b Day 9
Today I’m better rested but not recovered from the shoulder. I have a chiropractor appointment tomorrow. I need to do so strength training today, but I won’t rely on that bunged-up area.

The presence of chocolate almonds is due to pain and fatigue. I have to figure out another way to mitigate that but it was terrible yesterday.

But, I still feel like I’m dropping weight. I was also slightly hungry going to bed, which is always encouraging.

How have I never had a Killer Frost image before? It’s 25° in the Kawarthas.

Mutant Diet Phase 10b Day 8
Clearly it’s a Monday. I dropped my shaving bowl and it broke. I cut myself slightly cleaning it up. I am tired because the right hip joint was a mess at bedtime and I had to roll it out with the metal core roller and take more acetaminophen.

Time to put such issues aside.

Diet? How’s this? My son noticed I lost weight off my legs. I tell you my legs were not on the list.

Due to a medical appointment there will be no workout today. Probably a good thing. My injured shoulder blade area is still not right. And this morning’s mishap did not send the right omen into the day.

Avengers 3. Practice water safety in the Okanagan please.

Mutant Diet Phase 10b Day 7
This morning I did a rare 9 AM yoga class. The family schedule was weird and I needed to do something to try to straighten out this pulled shoulder blade muscle.

I think it helped, but it’s still all tight in the wrong places.

I had a cheat pizza and a glass of wine last night.

The stain of all this really got to me yesterday. I know many people see this as just a diet. What’s the big deal? All I can say to those who feel this way, is try it my way for two weeks and then let’s talk.

Captain America and Punisher. There’s an ethics discussion Ottawa would enjoy.

Mutant Diet Phase 10b Day 5
This whole process seems to be about trade-offs. A 7:30 AM personal trainer session is brutal. I have a new trainer and he, at my request, was focusing on how I had hurt myself Tuesday doing deadlifts. My theory about bad form was correct. I have always had weak muscles in between the shoulder blades. I was shown how to activate these properly in a deadlift and I’m pretty sure I now know how to do this. I also have a hack for correcting my posture during the day. I slouch and it weakens the upper back.

The diet, however, went sideways due to pain. I was off-kilter for the rest of the day and took chocolate “medicine”. However, I achieved a lot of steps and kept my cycling going and the calorie burn recorded by the Fitbit was high.

And, the nocturnal disruption was lower than average as of last night. Fingers crossed I may have started re-training, even though I was super thirsty after 8 PM.

I’m not sure why The Hulk is bald. Apparently in London Ontario you can be drunk, drive the wrong way and blow up 7 houses.

Mutant Diet Phase 10b Day 4
Good grief. 7:30 AM personal trainer session. Hopefully in the Fall I can get back to a noon time regular session. I weighed in, but won’t look at the numbers until the end. The diet feels like it’s working. The focus today was on posture because I pulled a muscle in my own deadlift on Tuesday. Yesterday’s yoga class seems to have straightened it out. I am however tender all over because the workout was focusing on keeping my shoulder blades activated at the right time.

I must focus on my many tasks.

They’re making a Shang Chi movie. I have this comic somewhere. Check out my new Langley BC travel article.

Mutant Diet Phase 10b Day 3
When you restart a diet/fitness program on a Monday, normally things are wonky on the Tuesday. In this case there was minor wonky-ness in that I ate too much at dinner.

The other bit of annoyance is that I did the deadlift wrong, again, and pulled the muscle in the bottom right part of the back before the low back. It seems to be coming back together. I did stop the exercise the moment I felt the strain.

Tomorrow I see the personal trainer to see what I was doing wrong. However, his only time is 7:30 AM on Thursdays for the coming three weeks. Bleech.

I still shut off the food and drink at 8 PM, but there wasn’t a great improvement in disruption. It was also hot in the apartment.

I bought this very She-Hulk comic in Coombs BC at a rustic used bookstore.

Mutant Diet Phase 10b Day 2
Much of the diet/fitness process has turned into a mental health process, so yesterday I had two different medical appointments to try to move the needle on fatigue in general and mental fatigue in particular. By in particular I mean depression/anxiety.

So, armed with research and all my questions written out, freshly off my bicycle, my GP said, “You aren’t presenting as someone who needs medication.” However, I am up in the night to visit the bathroom too frequently so I am off for an ultrasound. “Does it hurt?” I asked. “Uh, no,” the doctor said.

He did ask, “How would you feel if you got two weeks of good rest?” I responded, “I’d take one night.”

The premise under which I’m operating is that I’m stunningly sleep deprived, but enough of a maniac to keep on the move. I am now supposed to stop eating and taking in fluid by 8 PM. Which I did last night and still was up 4 times. That’s what the P = 4 in the chart means.

Meanwhile I was super strict yesterday and at exactly 1:19 PM, my body screamed, “Where the fuck are the carbs?” Someone had mixed nuts in the office and saved the day.

Wolverine, my inspiration, leading the fight. Wild tennis news featuring a Mississauga kid.

Mutant Diet Phase 10b Day 1
Good Grief. Another mini-phase. This is meant to last at least 2 weeks. I’ll call it until August 30. It coincides with my wife and daughter tackling a vegetarian version, which is based more on trying to knock refined products right out and keep things really low glycemic index and then put things back.

I am going to try to keep to the 2000 calories as per Phase 10.

We just returned from a indulgent week’s vacation. I am so amp’d up on carbs that my body is going to freak out when it realizes what I’m doing.