October 6th, 20111

[Brent Brown]

Workout:

• 20 minutes of
  • Five push ups
  • Five bent over rows
  • One minute exercise bike (high resistance)
• First couple rounds of push ups were off a dumbbell rack, then I switched to regular push ups
  • Still can't get a low as I'd like, but it is getting better.
• First couple rounds of rows @ 24kg, then I switched to 28kg

 

Previous Night's Sleep:

• 9 hours

 

Nutrition:

 

8:00a - Noon:

Two eggs, onions, garlic peppers, olive oil

1.5 chicken habanero cheese sausages

Black coffee

1000mg fish oil, Opti-Men multivitamin,

One Now Glucose Metabolic Support cap

 

Noon - 4:00p:

Beef Pad Prik King (ginger, onions, peppers, snow peas, Thai long beans, bamboo, carrots, curry)

Steamed broccoli, squash, snow peas & carrots

Iced black coffee

1000mg fish oil, Opti-Men multivitamin

Two Now Glucose Metabolic Support caps

 

4:00p - 10:00p:

One linguica sausage

One medium baked yam with butter

Iced black decaff coffee

3mg melatonin

1500mg Bulgarian Tribulus

30mg zinc, 450mg magnesium, 10.5mg vitamin-B6 (ZMA)

One Now Glucose Metabolic Support cap

[Brent Brown]

Thanks!  It's so hard to tell.  I have definitely had a big change in results... I just haven't been doing it all long enough to be able to tell what causes what.

 

The previous month (when I was getting 6-7 hours of sleep) I lost a consistent one pound a week.  I blacked out our bed room and started getting closer to 9 (my goal is still 9.5).  I lost seven pounds in two weeks... and one of those weeks was my rest week, where I did not exercise at all. 

 

That's a rather dramatic improvement... but I was also sick for several days... and scale weight isn't the best measure of results.  So... I'm still not sure what to make of it all.  But I certainly am continuing working towards the 9.5 hours of sleep goal. Whatever it was that caused it...  I like it!  :)

[Pam Benedick]

WOW....I am super impressed with the 9 hours of sleep. Do you feel that the extra sleep is really making a difference??