Galileo Figaro Magnifico!

Last night was a little better.

I feel asleep at 6:30, got up at 8:15, went to the store, went to bed. It was about 11:00 by then and I layed there for a good 45 minutes. The power flashed about 1:30 and then the smoke alarm went crazy. Fell back asleep about 1:45. Got up with a nightmare about 4:00, went back to sleep. Alarm woke me up at 7:00. Not as bad, but not wonderful.

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Wow. That's pretty irratic sleeping—not the norm, I hope.

As of late, it has been. The last 3 days have sucked. I hope to correct this soon. I think it may partially be due to my last meal being close to bed, but I'm not 100% sure. Last night I just wasn't tired when I layed down. I probably would have slept through if conditions were different. I just started a new diet (dropping about 600 calories) which could put some tension on the system. We'll see if I can regulate soon.

Cutting Diet: Day 3 of 42

I. Mastication, Deglutition, and Supplementation
Daily Rating: *****
Day three. I keep forgetting to suck down the morning flax-seed oil...I am SO FRIGGEN STUPID. I should just quit now, my whole diet's shot. *phew* Now that that's out of my system, here is my daily diet. Enjoy.

07:00 300mg ALA
07:30 2oz Oatmeal, 2oz milk, 1 can tuna
08:00 2g Vitamin C
09:30 300mg ALA
10:00 48g FiberOne, 4oz milk, 3 egg white, 1 whole organic eggs, 1/4oz flax oil
10:15 Twinlab Daily One
12:30 300mg ALA
01:00 4oz lettuce, 2oz radishes, 2oz baby carrots, 1oz cucumber, 2tbsp fat-free ranch, 3.5oz turkey, 1oz sunflower seeds
03:00 300mg ALA
03:15 Twinlab Vitamin E
03:30 4oz fat-free cottage cheese, 2oz strawberries, 0.5oz almonds, 0.6oz oatmeal
04:00 Twinlab Vitamin B-100
05:30 300mg ALA
06:00 2oz chicken, 1/2 whole wheat bagel, 16g natural peanut butter
08:00 300mg ALA
08:30 5.2oz cottage cheese, 1oz blueberries, 1 yogurt, 0.45oz flax oil
09:00 2g Vitamin C

Daily Totals: 1846 calories, 60 fat, 193 carbs (46 fiber), 152 protein
Daily Split: 30% fat, 35% carbs, 35% protein
Supplements: 1.8g ALA, MultiVitamin, +400IU Vitamin E, +4g Vitamin C, +100 Vitamin B complex

II. Training
Daily Rating: n/a

III. Slumber
Daily Rating: *****
Ok this was better than before, but it still sucks. I fell asleep on the futon about 6:30 and got up at 8:15. I decided to then go to the store and pick me up some eggs for breakfast. I get back, shower, go to bed about 11:00. 11:45 rolls around and I fall asleep. At 1:30 there is a huge storm and the power goes off and on. The fire-alarm in my room goes all crazy and wakes me up. I fall back asleep after another painful 15 minutes of staring at the ceiling. I woke up about 4:00am from a bad dream which resulted in me being totally pissed off. I fall back asleep and go right back into the bad dream. Why is that? Why can I never fall back asleep and keep dreaming about girls with tight boxes that grip what I push with their eager bossoms in hand? NoooOOOooo. But when I have a dream about ass-raping midget dinosaur professional-wrestelers (pronounced "rasslers") it's right back into hell as soon as my eyes are closed.
Total Sleep: I can't even figure it out.

IV. Daily Rant
So, the restauant I visit frequently decided it would be a brilliant idea to put a glass cage around the smoking section to protect the non-smoking people from the harmful death-gas. Sounds like a good plan, right? Not for me it isn't. I am a lone non-smoker in a group of smoking friends. Now I get the pleasure of be trapped in hell much like a mime while my friends' cigarette smoke dances in my lungs like the sprites of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Ohh....My transparent tomb. For today I have a case of the megrims and this foggy pall of smoke will be the death of me.

William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
"Every elf and fairy sprite...Sing, and dance it trippingly."

The End

[Cougar]

I get periodic problems with insomnia myself... although for me it's half the time can't-fall-asleep, and half the time wake-up-hideously-early.

What sometimes helps, though not always, is kava root... take a little and it relaxes you, take more and it's a pretty decent sedative (beats all hell out of the over-the-counter remedies), take a whole bunch and it'll get you pretty damn high.

There's been some rumblings about possible liver damage, though after I dug through Medline there didn't seem to be any substantial basis behind it. The most compelling bit of counter-evidence is the fact that natives in Australia and Oceania take it in absolutely outrageous quantities for the get-you-high part and don't seem to be or have been suffering any hepatic problems from it.

When I'm seriously suffering from insomnia, NOTHING helps. But the kava really does help when it's a more borderline problem.

Thanks for the tips Cougar!

Insomnia sucks. I think my Day 2 rant explains it properly.

[Fudomyo]

I get that, planes and rabbits go by (well something) in my peripheral vision. They are never there when you look.

Luckily I'm usually the one keeping myself up. I took some Lion's Mane couple of weeks ago. Worst sleep I've ever had. Crap I say!

Good luck bleary man.
Fudo

Whew! Finally got a good night of sleep last night. I'll explain in the journal when I update.

Cutting Diet: Day 4 of 42

I. Mastication, Deglutition, and Supplementation
Daily Rating: *****
I was out of tuna this morning so I had the only protein I could find which was yogurt. That sucks. Gonna have to eat a little more chicken tonight for dinner to try to make it up.

07:00 300mg ALA
07:30 2oz Oatmeal, 2oz milk, 1 yogurt, 1tbsp flax seed oil
10:30 300mg ALA
11:00 48g FiberOne, 4oz milk, 3 egg whites, 1 whole organic egg, 1/4oz flax oil
10:15 Twinlab Daily One
12:30 300mg ALA
01:00 4oz lettuce, 2oz radishes, 2oz baby carrots, 1oz cucumber, 2tbsp fat-free ranch, 3.5oz turkey, 1oz sunflower seeds
01:30 Twinlab Vitamin E
02:30 300mg ALA
04:00 4oz fat-free cottage cheese, 2oz strawberries, 0.5oz almonds, 0.6oz oatmeal
06:30 300mg ALA, 3g creatine
07:30 posworkout shake: 8oz water, 44g whey, 50g dextrose [440kcal, 3, 60, 44]
07:30 600mg ALA
08:30 Wendy's 5 piece nugget, Wendy's Grilled Chicken Fillet (only) [330kcal, 18, 14, 30]
08:30 Vitamin C


Daily Totals: 2100 calories - the fat from the last meal balanced out the carbs from the previous meal (even though most are probably just going to refill my muscle glycogen).
Supplements: 1.8g ALA, MultiVitamin, +400IU Vitamin E, +2g Vitamin C, +100 Vitamin B complex

II. Training
Daily Rating: *****
The cut is killing my strength already.

frontSquats
Goal: n/a
Warmup: 95x6,
Workset: 135x8, 155x4
Holy šhit this sucked. My legs were fine but my upper body struggled holding the weight. Back down to 145 next week. That sucks.

trapBarShrugs
Goal: 235x8
Warmup: 140x8, 190x8
Workset: 235x12 Personal Record!
a lil hard at the end

benchPress
Goal: n/a
Warmup: 95x10, 115x10
Workset: 135x10
Wasn't too bad. This is the first time I've bench pressed in years! I kept my elbows tight, like da benchmonster said.

lateralRaises
Goal: 25x6
Warmup: 15x10
Workset: 25x6
I'm going back down to 22.5 next week. These were ugly.

weightedDips
Goal: +60x10
Warmup: +0x6
Workset: +60x9 Personal Record!
Woo!

twoHandDumbellLyingTricepExtensions
Goal: n/a
Warmup: 5x10
Workset: 15x8. 8. 8, 8
I took 15 seconds rest between each set. Another attempt compliments of benchmonster. The workout was going long today so I figured I'd turn it into a chest/tri/leg day.

weightedCrunch
Goal: n/a
Workset: 105x12

Strapholds with COC #1 gripper + 10lbs 10 seconds

III. Slumber
Daily Rating: *****
YES! YESSS! I fell asleep and stayed asleep last night! I only woke up once and it was for about 30 seconds! Bed time was 11:30, got up at 6:50!
Total Sleep: 7.5 hours

IV. Daily Rant
I probably won't have time for a rant tonight, but amuse yourself with yesterday's.

The End

V. Thought of the Day
Have you ever wanted to just take a plastic spoon and dig somebody's MOTHERFÜCKING EYEBALL OUT?

...me neither.

[galileo]

Help! I've turned into a guest!

[galileo]

Cutting Diet: Day 5-6 of 42

I. Mastication, Deglutition, and Supplementation
Daily Rating: *****
I ate generally decent this weekend with one cheat meal on Saturday. Sunday I woke up late and went to bed early so I probably only got about 1400-1500 calories. No harm done though.

II. Training
Daily Rating: n/a

III. Slumber
Daily Rating: *****
I got a ton of sleep this weekend! Averaged about 11 hours a night if I had to venture a guess.
Total Sleep: 11 hours

The End

[galileo]

Cutting Diet: Day 7 of 42

I. Mastication, Deglutition, and Supplementation
Daily Rating: *****
I've upped my ALA intake to 600mg/meal. You could say I...raised the stakes. HAHAHAH! Laugh now. PROFUSELY. Get it? PROFUSELY. WooooOOOOOOO! I don't expect you to understand my inside jokes. Smile and laugh, lemming.

07:00 600mg ALA
07:30 2oz Oatmeal, 2oz milk, 1 yogurt, 1tbsp flax seed oil
10:30 600mg ALA
11:00 48g FiberOne, 4oz milk, 3 egg whites, 1 whole organic egg, 1/4oz flax oil
10:15 Twinlab Daily One
12:30 600mg ALA
01:00 4oz lettuce, 2oz radishes, 1oz baby carrots, 1oz cucumber, 2tbsp fat-free ranch, 3.5oz turkey, 1oz sunflower seeds
01:15 Twinlab Vitamin E
03:30 600mg ALA
04:00 4oz fat-free cottage cheese, 2oz strawberries, 0.5oz almonds, 0.6oz oatmeal
06:30 600mg ALA, 3g creatine
07:30 posworkout shake: 8oz water, 30g whey, 50g dextrose [440kcal, 3, 60, 44]
07:30 600mg ALA, 2g Vitamin C, 7g Creatine
09:00 Breaded Chicken Sandwich, 3 chicken strips, blueberry pie.

I SUCK SO BAD. I took the extra food because it was free and now I feel like a dickhole. Oh well, it makes me realize how much I need to stay focused. I worked out today, I should be OK for one cheat meal.


II. Training
Daily Rating: *****
Ugh...sleepy. I'm coming down off of a caffeine high at the wrong time. Short, crappy workout.

weightedChinups
Warmup: +0x6
Worksets: +25x9, 8
Ugh...this was hard on the system. Failure both sets.

deadLifts
Warmup: 140x10
Worksets: 190x9, 9
Keeping it light and easy.

oneArmDBRow
Warmup: n/a
Worksets: 70x8 l:r, 65x8 l:r
This weight will drop even more next week because my 2" olympic dumbells will be here.

twoInchThickBarCurl
Warmup: 70x8
Worksets: 80x8
w00t! Thickbars rock.

weightedCalfRaise
Warmup: n/a
Worksets: 65x10, 10, 10, 10
Let's not discuss this, hmm?

III. Slumber
Daily Rating: *****
Went to bed around 11:00 got up around 7:00. Everyting's irie.
Total Sleep: 8 hours

IV. Daily Rant
So I'm driving to town after my workout and I see a vast sea of brake lights flooding the highway for a few miles ahead. Of course, when I'm in a hurry, anything that could possibly happen to make me late, generally does. As I crawl along the highway at a healthy clip of (...) 10 miles per hour some dick pushes his way into my lane. I had to resort to skillful NASCAR like tactics to avert the danger of hitting this asswipe. He had one of those numbers on the back of his ride like he worked somewhere special, so I called the number from my cell phone and was like "Hello. Driver A83360 is a total asshole. He cut me off on the highway while there was an accident on the road and he nearly caused additional fatalies with his assholocity." The woman who answered was like "Oh, I'm very sorry sir!" Then I was like "Well, you shouldn't be sorry. But I know that good old number A83360 is going to be really sorry when I follow him until he stops, pull him out of his car, then beat him to death with a tire iron." Silence on the other end. Then she hangs up. Chalk one up for street justice.

Ok so I get to the scene of the accident. Let me set this up a little bit so you get a better idea. Where I live most of the highways were "cut out" of hilly mountain-like places. So the highway sits down inbetween rock like so : \__/. Well this guy apparently thought it would be a great idea to drive his car up one of these mountains. His mid-nineties Chevy Blazer now lays on it's top with all 7 window sites totally shattered and the body damaged beyond repair. For this he wins...*trumpet music* Douche Bag of the Year! *pause for applause*. Apparently the DBOTY was some sort of ****ing genius. Sure, I can make it up a 60 degree incline with my crappy truck. "I reckon I've seen it on TV a hundred times." Well as much as this amuses me the thing that really pissed me off was...THERE WAS NOTHING BLOCKING THE ROADS. Nothing. The 500 assholes in front of me just figured they'd drive by as slow as possible so they could see the wreck. They even had a fireman on the side trying to get people to speed the hell up. People suck at driving.

V. Thought of the Day
People should need to take a driving test every 5 years. This should be compliments of the state. If you drive like a douche bag, then *yoink*, there goes your license, assface.

The End

[galileo]

Cutting Diet: Day 8 of 42

I. Mastication, Deglutition, and Supplementation
Daily Rating: *****
Perfect diet!
I've developed a bad addiction though....Diet Snapple Iced Teas. Oh man...they had them on sale at the store so I picked up two cases. With the low-no sugar diet, these things taste SOoooo sweet. Now I understand how ppl can handle diet drinks. I'm limiting myself to 2 a day and I shoot for 1.

07:00 600mg ALA
07:30 2oz Oatmeal, 2oz milk, 1 can tuna, 1tbsp flaxseed oil
08:00 2g Vitamin C
09:30 600mg ALA
10:00 48g FiberOne, 4oz milk, 3 egg white, 1 whole organic eggs, 1/4oz flax oil
10:15 Twinlab Daily One
12:30 600mg ALA
01:00 4oz lettuce, 2oz radishes, 1oz baby carrots, 1oz cucumber, 2tbsp fat-free ranch, 3.5oz turkey, 1oz sunflower seeds
03:00 600mg ALA
03:15 Twinlab Vitamin E
03:30 4oz fat-free cottage cheese, 2oz strawberries, 0.5oz almonds, 0.6oz oatmeal
04:00 Twinlab Vitamin B-100
05:30 600mg ALA
06:00 2oz chicken, 1/2 whole wheat bagel, 16g natural peanut butter
08:30 5.2oz cottage cheese, 1oz blueberries, 1 yogurt, 0.45oz flax oil
09:00 2g Vitamin C

Daily Totals: 1901 calories
Daily Split: 33% fat, 33% carbs, 34% protein
Supplements: 3g ALA, MultiVitamin, +400IU Vitamin E, +4g Vitamin C, +100 Vitamin B complex

II. Training
Daily Rating: n/a

III. Slumber
Daily Rating: *****
I didn't get to bed until midnight and I got up at 7. Twas good sleep though!
Total Sleep: 7 hours.

IV. Stat Whore
Again, morning and dry. I also tested after a shower today.

Weight: 156lbs

Ab: 16mm this morning, 15mm this evening
Chest: 5mm this morning, 4.5mm this evening
Leg: 18mm this morning, 17mm this evening.

That puts me between: 10.2%-11.0%
Which I'm guessing is inaccurate since I can't see my abs *that* well yet. The point is...I'm making progress.

2.5lbs this week. I'll say 1.5 fat 1lb glycogen flux. Since my measurements went down substantially, I'm getting somewhere.

V. Daily Rant
I have stuff to say but no time. I'll say it tonight or tomorrow.

The End

[galileo]

Cutting Diet: Day 9 of 42

I'm tired so rather than complain, I'm going to sleep. Night folks.

I. Mastication, Deglutition, and Supplementation
Daily Rating: *****
Perfect diet + 2 coffees + 2 diet snapple peach iced teas.

07:00 600mg ALA
07:30 2oz Oatmeal, 2oz milk, 1 can tuna, 1tbsp flaxseed oil
08:00 2g Vitamin C
09:30 600mg ALA
10:00 48g FiberOne, 4oz milk, 3 egg white, 1 whole organic eggs, 1/4oz flax oil
10:15 Twinlab Daily One
12:30 600mg ALA
01:00 4oz lettuce, 2oz radishes, 1oz baby carrots, 1oz cucumber, 2tbsp fat-free ranch, 3.5oz turkey, 1oz sunflower seeds
03:00 600mg ALA
03:15 Twinlab Vitamin E
03:30 4oz fat-free cottage cheese, 2oz strawberries, 0.5oz almonds, 0.6oz oatmeal
04:00 Twinlab Vitamin B-100
05:30 600mg ALA
06:00 2oz chicken, 1/2 whole wheat bagel, 16g natural peanut butter
08:30 5.2oz cottage cheese, 1oz blueberries, 1 yogurt, 0.45oz flax oil
09:00 2g Vitamin C

Daily Totals: 1901 calories
Daily Split: 33% fat, 33% carbs, 34% protein
Supplements: 3g ALA, MultiVitamin, +400IU Vitamin E, +4g Vitamin C, +100 Vitamin B complex

II. Training
Daily Rating: n/a

III. Slumber
Daily Rating: *****
I got home late, went to bed at 2:00am got up at 7. I'll keeeeel you.
Total Sleep: 5 hours.

The End