the Asocial Ape

morning -

sloppy joe on a hamburger

oatmeal

32oz OJ

32oz water

1/4C peanuts

before noon -

soyburger on WW w/ lettuce and tomato

1C peanuts

64oz water

banana

after noon -

5oz bbq chips

lemon blueberry muffin made by insanely good vegan chef, Pamela (http://pamelacooks.blogspot.com/)

24oz light beer

before bed -

2C red curry w/tofu over pasta

damn it! i know i ate more and better than that! i just don't remember what it was.

i skated my ass off for an hour, from 1015-1120. there was a lot of down hill on the way out (but that still takes work), but the way back was ALL uphill.

after that, i spent two hours mowing the yard. that counts as some kind of exercise. it has to.

hey there and welcome.

my buddy said i had too many sets/reps on my combined workout. so to do one big exercise for chest, legs, and bis, on each of the two days, and for chest, to leave in the flys.

i read my chart wrong on squats, and where i meant to do 30lbs + the bar total, i put on 30 on each side, and so shot the weight higher this week. last week i was a little worried about remembering the form, and so was lowballing. that made me happy.

bench sucked though, b/c despite bumping it up, as i was only doing flat and not incline as well, i was doing it alone (my partner didn't show till much later), and i could push myself to failure, as i worried about dumping the weights or dropping it on my face. i've got to figure some way to overcome that.

for curls, i concentrated on form, and so was using less weight than i could have if i cheated, but i know that's better in the long run, even if it makes me feel like more of a punk.

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i'll be back on wed with a similar workout.

i'm going skating this morning before it gets too hot.

the pulled muscle feels better today.

i'm ordering creatine today, and will begin taking that when it comes.

any suggestions on improving my workout, and especially dealing with the bench issue above, and getting good core exercise (bench, squat, deadlift, curl) sets would be most appreciated.

thanks for joining and helping the animals.

welcome.

went to the gym today. it was good.

my workout was different than i planned previously. i'll post it later.

eta: i seem to have pulled a muscle in the side of my chest. oh joy.

food - oatmeal and 32oz OJ for breakfast

snack - pint of soy milk, builder bar, 1/2 C peanuts, 2 sweet pickles, 32 oz V8, 5oz bag of bbq chips. and a box of coconut water

dinner - 2 sloppy joes on whole wheat, box of frozen spinach, 6C salad w/ tomatoes and broccoli, ~3C unsweetened apple sauce

snack - sloppy joe on ww, and 2 large carrots.

Rob, you're skinny

(you know i just say that to motivate you to GAIN SOME WEIGHT, don't you? )

i say that kind of stuff to my buddy travis. my favorite - "hey. trav. you've got a string hanging off your shirt. . . . . oh, wait. nevermind. that's your arm."

thanks Josh!

ps - i'm with you on the cooked food. i love me some carrot and celery sticks, or cuke slices in vinegar, but there's no way i would go raw. i love grilled tofurkey bratwust, scrambled tofu, and (oh my god) falafel. falafel is the food of the GODS.

note: i am not cracking on vegan raw foodists - go for it, and i respect you.

Ubuntu won't run on my home PC. it's built from junk liberated from the recycling drop off at the dump. i go out, drop off a car battery i found on the side of the road, and fill up the car with PC stuff.

but it's all OLLLLLLLD. eventually, i'll build a second box and install slackware. but my DW doesn't want to deal with dual boot. the one home PC is basically hers, and she wants just win2k running.

i'll get the slackware box put together once all the feral cats are caught and placed in homes, the yard looks awesome, and we're caught up on all our chores (read as 'probably never')

Are you eating vegetables on your "fake chicken thing" sandwich?

mustard seeds are technically vegetables.

Are there any vegetables in your curry/tofu dish? Maybe you could mix some nice kale or spinach in there?

no. but that's a good idea. it's got so much sauce i'd never taste the vegetables.

Isn't it cool when you have someone who makes you feel better about yourself and you can both feed off of that?

god yes! i swear i'm an inch or two taller when i'm with her. i love her so!

(hopefully cindy will read this and i'll get husband points! (just kidding - i really do feel taller when we're together))

couldn't skate last night - it was pouring once i got done with my chores.

today-

oatmeal, coffee, and a quart of OJ for breakfast.

fake chicken thing on whole wheat with mustard for morning snack

5C spaghetti w/ red curry and fried tofu for lunch.

3 cups of tea.

back in the gym tomorrow. supposedly one of the other developers is going to meet me there, so i'll have a partner! yay.

also, my wife is going to join, but she said she's going to do more aerobics than lifting, but that's ok. i'll feel so much better having her there.

it's probably shallow or something, but she gorgeous and so when i'm with her, i feel better about myself.

...I still feel like it would be way better for people to go out and hunt for their meat if they choose to eat it...

people won't do that, and hunters, in my experience, are by and large scum bags.

i lived in the mountains of WV for several years, and the noble hunters frequently poached on our property - until we started shooting back and word got around. also we'd often find dead does and bucks on the crest of the hill, where hunters on the highway saw them and just figured it'd be fun to kill them. we also twice had bucks taking refuge on our land with arrows embedded in them from asshats who shot them, didn't kill them, and were too lazy to stalk them.

hunting for meat is wrong. raising livestock for meat is equally wrong.

"...We talked about doing 16k together..."

i was just reading the beginning of your log, and you wrote that you didn't want to run really long distances, and now you're going to run 16K.

that's awesome.

i've got a puppy linux distro on a live cd i use on my secondary machine at work sometimes.

wow! looks like you guys had/are having a great time. lucky ducks.

i got earaches when i went vegan, but i was also doing those ear candle things so that might have stirred something up and caused the infection, rather than eating healthier.

i'd eat a cat poop before i'd eat meat.

i don't know any raw vegans in RL.

there are creeps everywhere, though, even in vegan and abolitionist communities.

i'll still hoist a beer with the worst of them when we bulldoze the last slaughter house, and the final vivisector is found guilty and sentenced in court.

hi and welcome!

hey there and welcome! that's a great intro you wrote!

22oz light beer

another fake chicken patty on whole wheat

pickle

big bowl of red curry w/ coconut milk, natural peanut butter, and tofu over spaghetti.

half a box of frozen spinach

approx totals for the day

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...now I bench over 150 lbs....squatted over 225. Deadlift[ed] ... 225 several times.

dude! that's awesome!! thanks for the encouragement.

breakfast -

1C rolled oats, cooked in 1C soymilk, 3/4C water, tbs coconut oil, tbs brown sugar, big handful raisins, pinch of NaCl

30oz coffee

morning snack -

fake chicken patty thing on whole wheat bread w/ 1/4C satay sauce

3 large carrots

lunch -

4C lentils and rice with olive oil, crushed red pepper, garlic, onions, and about 6oz Rot*tel diced tomatoes

through the morning - 6 cups tea

no cigarettes

ballpark estimate for all the food so far today:

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Congratulations on quiting smoking!

thank you!

now if i could only squat, bench, and deadlift my body weight, i'd feel like i've gotten somewhere.

I also know you from another forum

ha! who know we were all over the web. not me.

thanks for the good wishes.

dude. that looks GOOD.

Nice...those are my kind of portions.

same here. i HATE it when you order something, and they give you this shrimpy little portion that takes two minutes to eat. i don't care if they charge more, but, come on! i want some food.

They ate the blueberries faster than I could pick!

our dogs would LOVE that. that's nice you all could go out.

...a good book on the subject of veganizing pets is "Obligate Carnivore" by Jed Gillen.

agree. plus, it's a good read. he writes a little like Dave Barry, but with more swear words.