December 2nd - Bike and Diet Retooling

On Thursday (December 1st) I did a rest day.

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Friday, December 2nd

A nice ride, short & easy. Would have gone longer but realized that I'd forgotten my lights and had to get home before dark.

• Cycling:
  • 0:28:08 || 4.5 mi || 9.5 mph || 144 bpm || flat

Read around on some forums and such and realized that I wasn't really doing my diet right. I was trying to do the program from the book "The Rapid Fat Loss Handbook", but realized after some more reading I wasn't really doing it right. Specifically I was allowing for too many carbs and doing too much exercise. Seems counter-intuitive but it's worked for a lot of people and that's what the book says to do, so I'm going to try it.

So I retooled my diet and exercise plan to look more like this:
M: Strength [Cheat meal?]
T: Bike To Work
W: Strength [Cheat meal?]
Th: REST
F: Bike to Work
S: Oly Lifting (or other lifting) [Reefeed]
Su: Bike To Work

Food-wise I'll aim for 800-1000 cal/day, 120g protein, >30g Fat, >30g Carbs, with more carbs on refeed days. Cheat meals will be EITHER Monday or Wednesday depending on how I feel/what looks good.

No more running for a while, which makes me sad because I know it's just going to keep erasing my progress. But right now my goal is on dropping the weight and I can always pick up running again afterwards. Also it is cold out.