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Just what I needed after that gruelling Total Body Core workout. It was like the most incredible burger after almost 6 weeks without deviating from the regular plan. My favourite meal had to be my post workout, 2 yellow/carb option – an entire white bread bagel, heck chicken sausages, salad leaves, tomatoes and mayo, with a glass of orange juice. I had orange juice as one of my fruit options today, as it’s so refreshing after a workout. With the addition of those quick release carbs, the quantities of fruit are also increased and allows for fruit juice for refeed day. I didn’t want to go crazy buying loads of different white starchy carbs that ultimately would get used for one meal and probably wouldn’t last until the next refeed day in 2 weeks time, so I’ve been incorporating the bagels and cornflakes in my entire day’s plan. I went for simple options – I’ve been craving cornflakes and white bread, so thats exactly what I had for my refeed day. While this isn’t a cheat day, it does allow for some foods that aren’t normally on the regular meal plan and there are some great recipes from the Fixate cookbook to incorporate things like Fix brownies and cookies into your meal plan. That’s almost half way! 6 weeks is longer than I’ve ever stuck to any program and consistency is really paying off!ĭay 35 of 80 is refeed day! While the carbs for the rest of the program are slow release, low GI options, refeed day introduces a day of fast release, high GI carbs, intended to replenish glycogen in the muscles after being in a deficit for the first part of the program. So at the end of week 6, I’ve just finished day 38 of 80. I was able to up my weights and go much heavier than I anticipated.
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The 3 x 10 sets that this week’s workouts were based around were such fun – the time flies and you really feel the burn by doing heavier weights for fewer reps. In terms of the workouts, I’m definitely enjoying phase 2’s workouts. Right now, after a few days, I’m not feeling a noticeable difference being gluten free, but I know enough about inflammation and food sensitivities to know it takes longer than a few days to notice benefits. We’ll see if that makes a difference to how I’m feeling.
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I’m also tweaking my meals a little – where I’ve been eating a lot of wholemeal bread for my carb source, I’m trying to swap for a gluten free sweet potato option. Maybe it’s just the swole-ness of weight lifting! I’m trying to trust the process, as I know I’m feeling stronger, healthier and have more energy than I have in years.
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I’m trying to work out if it’s the moving up to the next food bracket (Plan B from Plan A) in phase 2, or the fact I’m currently having 2 weeks holiday from my physical day job. The weight loss has slowed and I’m not feeling quite as lean. The first few weeks I noticed I lost weight quite suddenly and made almost instant progress. Mentally, this week has been a tough one. This may have been the extra glycogen after refeed day, or just the 3×10 sets that allowed me to up my weights. The next few days however, I did notice extra power in my workouts…upping my weights and pushing myself harder. The day after refeed day, I didn’t notice any extra energy or strength, or the leaness that other people said they noticed. I got extra carbs, extra fruit and it was all new again. There was a lack of confidence with my meals, compared to the regular meal plan that has become second nature now. While I enjoyed my fast-absorbing carbs, it kind of brought me back to the uncertainty about the eating plan that I felt on Day 1…not knowing what containers to eat, in which grouped meals and when. Refeed day was interesting – I had been looking forward to eating some foods that I’d not been ‘allowed’ on the regular eating plan, craving white bread and cereal. The added new aspect in this week was refeed day, which I posted ‘What I ate on refeed day’ here.
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While last week was a bit of a struggle starting new combinations and movement patterns to ‘burn out’ the muscle, this week I found I was a little more used to the moves and did them with more confidence and better form. This week was week 6, or the second week in Phase 2.