Day 5 - What a difference a day makes

I feel a bit stupid for what I wrote in yesterday's blog post now. Today was horrible. I woke up about 4am, absolutely starving, and then couldn't drift back off to sleep. Slept through my first alarm, so woke up in time to get breakfast at 9, 2 hours later than usual! So that got me a little on edge.

Ain't this the truth!

Then for the rest of the day I just felt weak. I could barely walk, getting into a car made the driver burst out laughing and around 11am I had to get a snickers bar in me. I know that doesn't sound like much, but when you're on your 5th day of no sugar, milk, gluten etc, it's a big thing to need an instant sugar fix - my legs had turned completely to jelly.

I still stuck to the program though. Thankfully today was a short day (only took 1.25 hrs!) and didn't work the legs too much. But my arms were too tired to hold me up for leg raises, so after 4 reps I'd have to stop and rest my arms - not my abs which I was expecting.

Then for back press-ups were involved. 40 explosive ones superset with swiss ball crunches. The crunches were fine, but I managed 10 regular press-ups, dropped to my knees and managed the rest of the first set in batches of 10. The second set I managed 5 full press-ups before dropping the knees. The third set I couldn't do 10 knee-press-ups (what are they called???), so got some 10kg dumbells, laid on the bench and did what I thought were ok-ish upside press-ups with them. 4th set I didn't even try a press-up, and finished the forty reps on 5kg dumbells.

One thing I did manage to do was the 40reps of lateral raises, though god only knows how. But it was a small victory. Cycled home on the lowest gears my bike had, and was so tired at the end I couldn't get my leg over the bike, so I fell over instead. Hey, it worked.

So the rest of today has been eating, eating and eating. I've upped my carbs whilst keeping the same amount of veg and protein. Which now means I must be approaching eating my own body weight daily. I'm sick of food, I can tell you that. I never want to see another tin of tuna, or chicken breast.

A little something to 'lighten' the mood

But this is what I've signed up for. I'm hoping an early night coupled with the supplements I bought yesterday (magnesium and calcium - need to find out what R-ADA is and where to buy it) will mean I'll be back to right tomorrow. I need to - Lower back, Lats and Arms tomorrow. Might have to go a bit lighter on the 40 rep exercises at the end though...