Yesterday I had to cram 2400 calories of fat and protein into four hours. Today it was six.
This is not easy to do. The fasting has, I think, shrunk my stomach, so that a "normal" size meal is quite filling. So you wind up with situations like I had tonight: finding yourself with 2 hours to go and only 900 calories in the bank.
"Oh, shit!" you say to yourself, "I better get busy!"
So you cram down some EXTREMELY filling high-fat pesto-tofu-mozzarella salad, and toss a protein shake on top of that, and then half an hour later go out to Thai food where, still feeling stuffed, you fill up your plate and eye it in much the same way you might eye a 95# bar before your third round of thrusters. Then you mumble and groan and complain about how fucking full you are, and you've still failed to hit your caloric and protein goals for the day, but not TOO badly.
Diet, my ass.
Saturday, September 13, 2008 by Daniel
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If you can bring yourself to do it, drinking olive oil can make this a fair bit easier.
I have never had a problem with olive oil shots. I don't know what the big deal is. I did once eat plain butter to make a "Blue Thunder" Zone. So horrifying.
I am afraid to ask ... but the curiosity is winning ... What on earth is a "blue thunder" zone?
Did you read in Starting Strength, where Mark Rippetoe says that he puts everything he can't eat in the blender and drinks it. OMG, talk about nasty.
Rebecca, you don't want to know what Blue Thunder is, really.
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Cholesterol 5 mg
Total Carbohydrate 43 g
Sugars 17 g
Protein 32 g
Niacin 10 mg
Phosphorus (as phosphoric acid) 1.27 g
Sodium (from water, maltodextrin and whey protein isolate) 290 mg
Potassium (from whey protein isolate, as potassium sorbate and potassium benzoate) 190 mg
Caffeine (as caffeine anhydrous) 58 mg
Chromium (as chromium picolinate) 60 mcg
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(Sorry you asked, aren't ya?)
Wow, that sounds about as non-real as today's "foods" come. I see now what your comment meant, Max...so in order to make this paragon of modern advertising Zone, you needed to consume, what, 14 grams of fat? That's a little over a tablespoon, by my reckoning.
Ew. Nasty. But at least your butter didn't come with an avalanche of mega-words like "extreme" and "force."
Can you imagine? "Eat EXTREME Butter, the most concentrated form of pure dairy fat available! Mooooooorrrrrawr!" It would, of course, be emblazoned with an illustration of some jacked-up cow with totally ripped udders.
Totally ripped udders? Don't they use balm to avoid the ripping of the udders?...
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