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10 Days In

Since about mid-April I have had dizziness.  It started mild just a few times a day but then increased to almost every hour.  I saw a ENT who set me up for a “special test” for hearing and inner ear stuff but that took a while to get scheduled, so I saw my natropathic Dr Marie Rodriguez and she did two vertigo resets, each helping significantly but still not 100%.  The special test concluded no inner ear issues so before referring me on to a neurologist, I was put on a declining 14 day course of prednisone.  This stuff is awful.  The first week was ok but it upset my stomach quite a bit which is also part of the reason for putting together all my meals for the week.  But starting Monday, I began to reduce my dosage and its caused my heart to race, quite a common side effect of the drug in general from my what expert google skills can decipher.  So I am on day 10 of 14 and cant wait to be done.  The unfortunate part, my dizziness showed up again yesterday.
On to the real reason for this post, its mid way through my uber prepared week.  It has been fantastic.  I'm not trying to be grain free, just trying to limit my consumption as I don’t believe or feel that grains are giving me the right level of energy for my training.  From Sunday I have had limited starches or grains and I could really feel it in my workouts.  Monday was amazing.  I felt like my squats were deeper, with better form and my jumps at the end were actually part of the motion.  You may have never seen this Under Armour commercial of GSP jumping over hurdles without breaking the motion as though hes just bouncing over little baby turtles, but I'm mesmerized by it.  The ability to transfer the energy of your body back up and over, I just love watching it, hoping some day I can do something like that!  So I have had several conversations with CT about being able to do that and I was told I have to learn how to recycle the energy into the next motion.  Well Monday my jumping squats felt like that, which is just an amazing feeling.  Funny thing is, they were about 10 times easier.  Tuesday was also a really great workout but I only trained for about an hour.  By all accounts that’s wonderful but with my cleaned up eating, I had more energy than I burnt and ended up watching TV in bed until late.  The best effect of all precooked foods is my evenings are really simple and have given me a bit of extra time.  I don’t have to stop at the store.  I don’t have to decide what to eat.  I need about 1 minute to serve myself, 1 to microwave it and then its dinner!  This may not the be culinary excitement most people look forward to but a tasty and quick meal after being on the go for the previous 16 hours is wonderful to me. 
There are a few things I have yet to figure out.  I go by the notion of breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner.  Sometimes I throw a few other things like nuts in there but it generally works, though I usually feel that post-lunch sleepiness and I start to snack about 10/10:30 in my attempt to make it to 12 for lunch.  This would be I end up eating 8oz of pistachios nuts and skipping lunch. Today I had to meet the adjuster to get my car looked at and it was going to fall right in lunch time, so I had a mini lunch at about 10:30 and then ate a mini lunch again at about 1.  I kind of like that and will keep working on modifying that the rest of this week.  I am also craving something and my usual fixes aren't satisfying it.  Generally its either salty or sweet, so I eat nuts or some dried cherries.  Neither satisfied, so I tried cheese.  It’s a bit better but I'm still wanting something.  Some times its my hydration so I will finish up my current bottle of water and have a coconut water. 
Overall my mini experiment for this week has gone well.  I have also managed to stay away from the evil sugar cookie despite moments of weakness on Monday. 

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