A Little Love On Vday

I wanted to give a shout out to Valentine's Day although at this point in my life it's pretty much just a Hallmark holiday. If you can't express love every day of your life, you've got bigger problems than one holiday can fix.

Anyway, what I really wanted to talk about was how my experiment is going. I was going to title this post "Throwing In The Towel" because that's how I felt yesterday.

First, the macros from yesterday...1800 calories, 122 g. protein/95 g. fat/113 g. carb (30%/54%20%).
I haven't done one workout, either the bodyweight one or walking, since Saturday when I decided to change up the macros. I've not been feeling bad. I've been unmotivated. I feel like hibernating and not even going outside. Even walking the dog has felt like a chore. So yesterday I forced myself to go outside for a real walk in the morning and within 5 minutes I could feel my energy go down the tubes. Really unpleasant stuff. I made it through the 20 minute walk but it was not pleasurable. So my thought was that I would quit the experiment today and go back to my original macros.

Well, I compromised. I had some avocado left and didn't want to waste it. So my macros today are as follows. 1500 calories, 124 g. protein, 82 g. fat, 65 g. carb (33%/50%/17%). I'll see how it goes today but my feeling is that ultra low carb is not for me. I see no advantage to it. I'm still waking up at 3 am although I don't feel bad during the day. I'd rather have more sleep. My motivation and energy just to move around is very diminished. There's no way I can train like this. And, although I haven't weighed myself yet, I doubt there is any advantage there either. I plan to be back at my original macros by Saturday. I've shifted my high and low days a bit since we are going to the casino for steakhouse dinner on Sunday (typically a low day). I'll move one of my high days next week earlier in the rotation and have more low days later in the week. It all comes out in the wash.

I'm hoping next week I get some good news about my wrist. It's feeling much much better, with just one point of pain around the wrist bone on the pinky side. My grip is good and I can weight bear on it much better. I still have some pain with certain twisting motions so hopefully a couple more sessions of PT will take care of that. Still looking like I'm on track to be back to lifting weights in March. Just in time for spring!