Category: Phase 11

Not sure what’s happening here; Batman looks alternative reality to me. Apparently there are about 17,000 feral cats in Toronto.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 14
I admit. Train wreck yesterday. Today I must calm my mind and try for cleaner food. I have to cook a lot of food for next week. That’ll keep me focused. Hopefully.

I’m feeling less totally ache-y. I hope to live through tonight’s yoga class.

By the way, if you find pizza counterattacks after eating, try those lactaid pills. They do seem to act as a buffer.

I just finished preparing food for the week. It helps make me feel more focused.

Black Knight and Dr. Strange. I wonder if anything odd is happening in Winnipeg. Oh yeah. Flooding.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 13
I write from a place of calories. And post workout pain.

Yesterday at the gym I was scheduled for the high intensity workout. I had discomfort and resistance from the Thursday weights workout. I took on the kettlebell burpees with modest expectations and then proceeded to complete the full workout. Then I rode a rental bike home because they had not finished with the repairs on my regular bike.

I was sore for the rest of today and into today. No workout today. We’ll see what yoga holds tomorrow.

However, my sweet tooth is out of control.

Tomorrow I must gently pound it into submission.

Justice Society. Controversy in Saskachewan over football and beef.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 12
It was another strangely stressful day with lots of stupid repair stuff happening around our building. I ate off plan but was starving all day regardless. Most peculiar. I also feel like the clothes are loosening. I am still at the gym and yoga regularly, but cycling is less. I took the bike in for maintenance because the gears were slipping and the brakes were screaming loud enough to wake the dead. During my weights workout yesterday, I did bench press last and pushed past a plateau by 2.5 pounds per side. I wasn’t expecting that.

Advice to self. Progress is progress. Giving up is not progress.

The most powerful? Ottawa has to truly deal with race.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 11
Another thing that doesn’t help one’s diet is the presence of housing issues. I.e. a Telco drilling through a heating pipe and people putting up scaffolding and knocking holes in interior suite walls.

Stress comes in many forms. Calling plumbers is one.

I also have to change trainers at the end of the month again. Most unsatisfying. Maybe time to change gyms?

Carnage, Venom and Spider-man. Sounds like my day. Edmonton looking at monitoring oil sands pollution. Duh.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 10
I ask you. The day started out OK, then derailed. The gym was OK, but I realized that I really don’t have a steady personal trainer and therefore don’t have weigh-in dates. Even though I don’t like the process and I regularly postpone looking at the numbers, the weigh-in dates are points in time that focus my mind.

Right now I face 71 days of endless effort without being able to mark progress or test skills.

That won’t work.

Flash and classic bad guys. Rain rain go away in Vancouver.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 9
Important tip. Diet/fitness plans don’t survive funerals. Even when you are basically the slightly emotionally involved driver of the soloist.

Classic reset strategy. Stick to the essentials. Try not to be distracted by the next strangeness.

The plan is the gym and get back to seeing if I can move some heavy objects. Still no word from my trainer.

Boris Johnson is no Hulk. A shooting in Mississauga is disturbing.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 8
Sunday turned into a cheat day. Oddly I had a solid protein/vegetable lunch and within minutes I was starving. I asked the body to sod off because I’d just eaten, but as I was running errands, I gave up.

It’s was strange. Then we went out for dinner and I threw in the towel.

Back at it today, however. But, there’s a funeral for a friend of my wife’s. More of a celebration of life but at a minimum it will disrupt the schedule.

We move forward because the other options are not so fun.

Some days you just need Spider-man and She-Hulk.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 7
By the time I shuttle people to where they are supposed to be on Sunday morning, I have about an hour to do something useful. Due to my laptop battery crapping out, it requires a wi-fi and a power outlet. The Starbucks in Dundarave, West Vancouver has network problems. Argh.

Yesterday was weird. Solidly strict until I started starving in a food court at about 2:30. Then a good by party at a friend’s and then home, where I ate a pile of salad. I am still sore from Friday’s workout, which will make a 75 minute yoga class all the more interesting.

Now to tether my laptop to my phone. I hate using data.

I needed Spider-man and Dr. Strange today. The weather is better in Halifax today.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 6
Super sore from yesterday’s high intensity workout. As far as I can tell it was last June I even tried it. I lost 10 swings of the kettlebell. Strangely my legs are the most whiney after the workout. The workout involves 3 groups of two exercises done three times each. Kettlebell burpees (75 lb per side), mountain climbers, steps ups, overhead ball slams, walk out planks, kettle bell swings.

Today I recuperate with a soggy Saturday full of chores and errands.

I discovered this Golden Age image. Leaders are campaigning in Toronto.

Mutant Diet Phase 11 Day 5
Yesterday was super stressful (internal job interview and other fun). Chocolate and alcohol were required.

Despite this, I’m noticing positive change. Due to a reduction in cycling I’m committed to doing the whole high intensity workout today. I haven’t done that in ages.

I need to stay with this because there seems to be some momentum from previous phases. It would be really nice to have progress. The years in a plateau were horrible.