Dean's Blog

Interestingly enough, last weekend after consuming a large Thanksgiving feast (Sundy is my normal cheat day for food) I stepped on the scale and realized that I am 20 lbs lighter than I was when I started my exercise and diet program this summer, and 10 lbs lighter that my last check-in on my weblog. This is encouraging.

I’m starting to see results in the mirror, which is nice. The initial losses usually come from visceral fat around your organs, and the stuff that’s built up in your muscles, kind of like marbelling in a nice juicy steak, dripping with peppercorn sauce, nice and medium rare..mmm. I digress.

I think the most difficult thing has to be morning nutrition. I mean I get up, and an hour later I’m at the Gym. Food has to be consumed with enough time to digest before hitting the gym, which is about an hour, so that you don’t hurl your whey ‘n oatmeal all over the nice clean mirrored walls. The thing is, Oatmeal, the real kind, not that instant crap, with all it’s super great awesome benefits, is really hard to eat quickly. I mean it’s a big gooey lump. I can’t add anything to it, because simple sugars at this stage are bad, and fructose from fruit and jellies is a retarder to metabolic processes. I can add skim milk, but still, it’s a big lump going down, and it takes patience to consume.