015:breakfast

Pre-workout:

• Espresso

Workout:

• Cleans; 45x5x2 / 135×3 / 185x1x5 / 205x1x3

Post-workout meal (didn’t take pic):

• Chicken Breast
• Corned Venison
• Broccoli
• Tahini Sauce
• 6000iu Vitamin D
• Press-pot coffee

014:dinner

 

• Corned Venison
• Roasted Broccoli
• Tahini Sauce
• Collard and Pork Soup (not pictured)

011:breakfast

Pre-gym:

• Espresso
• Dried Mango

Workout:

• Deadlift: 135x5x2 / 225×5 / 315×3 / 360×3 / 405×4
• Jackie: 1000m row, 50 thrusters w/bar, 30 pull-ups. 10:05 (video)

Post-workout meal:

• Dried mango
• Chicken breast plus dark meat with black olives and green salsa
• Broccoli and tahini sauce
• Espresso
• 1000iu Vitamin D
• 20g BCAA split between pre- and post-workout

007:lunch

• Broccoli and tahini sauce
• Smoked venison

004:dinner

Oops! Again forgetting the photographs… it’s a busy day at work. My bad.

• Chicken breast from Honeybee Market rotisserie
• Broccoli and tahini sauce from 004:lunch
• Handful of cashews

004:lunch

You may notice a little lapse between the003:snack and this post… it’s not because I missed a post, but rather because I came home from work and wasn’t really hungry for dinner so I went to bed. Then I woke up knowing I was not going to train today because I had hit it pretty hard the past 3 days, so I didn’t eat breakfast and didn’t get the ravenous hunger that typically leads into post-workout meal. It was 17 hours without food, so it would qualify as intermittent fasting, but the truth of the matter is I just didn’t feel hungry until now. And with that…

A note on intermittent fasting: It’s not something you do to torture yourself. It’s an acknowledgment that you are well-fed leading up to the fast, not physically hungry and don’t require food to function optimally. I really don’t want someone to read this and think I was dizzy or shaking or incoherent or anything like that and go put themselves there. I had a good base, I was comfortable, and I ate when I was ready. Done wrong, fasting can be unsafe and detrimental to your overall health and fitness. Check yourself before you wreck yourself.

However I did have the following when I woke up:

• Espresso
• Vitamin D

That said, since I hadn’t eaten for 17 hours, when food did finally hit my lips, it was traveling at an alarming rate! So I don’t have a picture of my entire lunch, unfortunately, but it’s all leftovers or repeat items, save for the tahini sauce.

• Broccoli and tahini sauce (2/3 tahini, 1/3 lemon juice, mashed garlic to taste. I overdid it on the garlic.)
• A huge serving of “super chili,” which is the last 2 cups of chili, plus about 1 cup of taco meat. All venison (my deer).
• 2 big-ass dollops of crunchy almond butter. On a spoon.