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Saturday, January 9, 2021

I'm closing in on 7 weeks on a carnivore diet. This morning, I thought I'd take a picture of what I generally eat everyday: 2.5 oz of post-cooked bacon coupled with 1 pre-cooked lb of ground beef with 2 tbsps of bacon fat on top. I eat that 4 hours after waking up and eat another lb of beef 4 hour after my first meal.

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I really do have to credit Kelly Hogan's myzerocarblife for this diet. It's been simple and so...well, I just need to stand outside Castle Grayskull real quick to show you!

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On my Resolutions page, I've been linking to a Google sheet that records my workout sessions. It's all still in progress, of course, but I like to plan ahead what I'm exactly going to do and what actually happens. It's both motivational and helpful in tracking progress. While a resistance routine cuts an easy path, I wasn't sure where I wanted to take my endurance regimen. I mean, it's easy to do what I've done, an hour on the treadmill here, another on the elliptical there. But, 2021 is a different space: I'm training to run in seven 5Ks.

Up 'til now, my focus has been to lose weight and then worry about a program when I got there. Well, I'm basically there now, not the sub-200, but...well, please refer to the above with my Battle Cat.

So, I'm going with a Couch-to-5K program to ramp my progress up, something very similar to this example. In fact, I did session #1 this morning. It wasn't difficult to do with my phone holding onto the stopwatch as I'm used to double+ of the amount of sets at 3 times longer through my heavy bag routine.

The challenge is for my lower body to get up to speed and to find a breathing approach that I like the best. I've been trying out a 2-2 approach, that is, breathe in for 2 steps and release for 2 steps. I'm also trying out a 2-3.