Day one of the v-diet is over. I doubt I’ll be posting about this every day, simply because it seems silly to waste time writing “hey I drank some shakes today and yeah.” I suppose that if someone was trying to break a shitty-food addiction for the first time, the writing might be cathartic, but I’d like to think I’m sort of beyond that at this point.
Anyhow, the general breakdown of how I’m doing this is:
Training day:
- Normal meals:
- 1-2 shakes of (1 scoop protein blend, pinch cocoa, 1 omega3 cap, 1 tbsp milled flax)
- 1 shake of (1 scoop protein blend, pinch cocoa, 1 omega3 cap, 1 tbsp psyllium)
- 1 shake of (1 scoop protein blend, pinch cocoa, 1 omega3 cap, 1-2 tbsp natural peanut butter)
- “Workout” shakes: 2 shakes of (1 scoop whey protein, 5ml creatine, 20g dextrose). One of these is chugged ~30 minutes before the workout, the other one is sipped during and then finished after the workout.
Non-training day:
Just like training day, except subtract the training shakes and add one more “normal meal” shake.
Very exciting stuff.
I’ve decided to take “before” pics first thing tomorrow morning. I think it’s sort of misleading to take photos right on day 1, although in this case it probably won’t matter much because it’s not like I was eating Twinkies and Pop-Tarts before I started this.
Right now I’m predicting that a mere 1 week of this isn’t really going to do much, except to give me a taste of how it feels to follow an utterly stupid diet instead of just a mildly stupid one. Also, this week is sort of hella busy for me, and the time I save cooking is going to be handy 
In terms of training, I’m cutting my HIIT and following the same training plan that Gus Pacho did on his V-diet in the T-nation physique clinic. (I actually started following it last week, after I finished a 6-week squat-spec cycle.) I did my first official v-diet workout today on a free pass at Xtreme fitness on the Danforth — which wasn’t the nightmare that all the online reviews made it out to be — and I felt pretty awesome. I forgot how rupturing dextrose-fueled workouts could be.
For NEPA (non-exercise physical activity), I’m going to stop cycling to work and instead walk to and from there every day, which is about 10km of walking in total, more or less. (I don’t want to bike because (a) I’m pretty used to it at this point, and (b) some parts of my cycling route can occasionally be a little tough and I don’t want to boink halfway through my ride. Plus, it’s fun to change things up once in a while.) I did the walk on Friday morning and it’s a beautiful one. I like the view of the city as I walk south on Broadview, and I get this undefinable feeling when I see the workers in Chinatown East lining up at the bakeries for breakfast before they start their shifts at the food markets around there.
But I digress. Like I said, I’ll stop in to talk about this from time to time if I feel that I have something of note to say, but I don’t think that’ll happen much.
Here goes.