Day4 of counting calories and it's been a little eye opening how much I'm shoving down the ole cake-hole. Best guestimate is that I was previously consuming approx 4,000 calories a day. Even on a good day with a 2 hour ride, that was at least 500 more than I was burning. Now I see why there's a lot of big belly folks riding hellacious amounts of miles each week. It's easier to ride than limit your food intake.
I did this back in 2008 when I was trying to get down from almost 300lbs. It appears somewhere between then and now my built in calorie counter has gotten way out of calibration.
I quit drinking (for now) on Sunday night. Last night was the first night I actually wanted a beer. It's hard to go from having a couple each night to having none. We'll have to see how this weekend goes as it'll be a test of my will power to not drink especially on the weekends. Maybe there will be lots of naps in my coming weekends?
Monday I switched to eating HFLC (high fat low carb) keto style. I figure I'll give this a go for a month and see if the hype is real. I did Paleo to get down to 198 and a bout 7% bodyfat. This keto style seems to be a lot more aggressive so who knows where it'll go. I'm hopefully optimistic that it still allows me to ride hard on the bike. Only time will tell. Trying to consume 25g or less of net carbs has been challenging. F'n carbs are in everything. 4 days of primarily eating meat, cheese, and eggs and all I can say is these foods are freaking awesome! I haven't eaten meat fat in a long time. Had a untrimmed ribeye the other night, damn! I forgot how flavorful that fat was. Same with some brisket yesterday, black crusted fat on some juicy brisket = mouth orgy.
Started producing some ketones yesterday. Finally up to .4mcl last night. Supposed to take 3-7 days to start making them so hopefully today will be the day shit gets popping.
Got on the scale Monday morning and I was 243. This morning I'm at 238. I'm assuming that's a lot of water weight gone. At this point I'll take it since I'm still in a little state of shock after seeing the 240's flash on the little LED.
Got on the bike and rode an hour at low tempo. It was f'n tough and had to force myself to keep going. I wasn't struggling, it didn't hurt, I just didn't have any power/energy. Felt like I bonked and was just riding to get finished. This is to be expected especially this early in, hopefully it gets better over the next couple of days. No racing for me this weekend. Hopefully the diesel motor adjust to these ketones, state track regionals are next weekend at the velodrome and The Battle of San Jac crit is in a month. Not to mention CX coming up. If I want to race something has got to change before those races as my big diesel motor is currently without it's turbos and the fuel pump appears to be clogged...
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