Day 37 : "All or nothing"

Now that a reasonable amount of my fat has gone, I've started to find myself obsessing a little bit with how quickly I can start building up muscle.  I don't want to go too mad, as would like to lose more weight before I start plateauing.  But, at the same time, I figure that I've still got a fair bit of fat to lose so should be able to lose that at a faster rate than I build muscle anyway, as long as I continue to keep the fat and carbs in my diet to a minimum.

One of the keys to building muscle (as well as to losing fat) seems to be to get lots of protein into you - particularly before or after a workout.  So I've found for the last few days that - rather than coming in from the gym, showering, writing my blog and then eating - I've been eating the protein from my dinner as soon as I get in, envisaging it jetting straight off into my still pulsating muscles.  It's led to some fairly disjointed meals.  Whilst I'm at the gym, my wife usually boils a couple of eggs for me to have with my salad (...oh yes, it's an exciting life we live in the Wicks household!...)  But yesterday evening when I got in from the gym, I just ate the eggs straight away.  Then I ate all the salmon off my salad, which my wife had lovingly prepared, before eating the vegetables later.

Tonight, I again ate my two eggs as soon as I got in.  And, as my wife hadn't made me a salad tonight (yes, I know, I should trade her in), I decided not to bother wasting time making one myself - so just devoured two tins of tuna instead.  Muscles ahoy!

And I've already started thinking that - once I've shed more fat and finished my initial 8 week challenge - perhaps I'll buy some of that whey protein powder that body builders use, and really start bulking my muscles up.

Sometimes, I do wish I'd do things by halves.


So my diet today has been:

- Breakfast:  An apple;
- Lunch:  An egg and bean salad;
- Dinner:  Two eggs, two tins of tuna, and a few nuts & raisins.

Gym:  Tuesday night biceps and stomach workout, and 30 minutes on the cross trainer.  (Like yesterday, I was feeling a bit rough today, but the gym seems to have temporarily knocked any illness out of me again.  In fact, I feel a bit high.  Woo hoo!)