The Naturale Yogi

Day 1 Monday Today was not the worst day but I was so hungry. It’s been the second day so that’s around 48 hours after I did the Spartacus circuit and I’m still very hungry! I ate more than I should have on my two main meals and I’m still trying to figure out where this hunger is coming from. I was doing so well the last few days but yesterday and today I was ravenous. I promised myself that I would stick to only the food in my plan for today but I wasn’t able to and that makes me sad because I’ve done so well for the last 5 weeks and I don’t want to go back to how I ate before this.

Day 5 Saturday I finally figured out the source of my evening hunger. We’ve been biking a trail nearby for several days this week and I suspect that and the humidity and heat has made me very dehydrated so for today I drank the 3L I was required to drink as well as adding a pinch of salt after my workout. I also did a rough count of the amount of calories I was consuming and I got to around 1,800 to 2,000 calories on some days which is 1,500 more than the amount prescribed to me for my fat loss phase.

I did continue learning about fatloss and macronutrient computations on my own via the plant based body transformation blue print I got from No Meat Athlete. This way once I get out of my current paid plan I’m able to plan my meals in a sound manner not blindly counting calories like I would have a decade ago or worse counting calories and including junk food into the mix! It’s no wonder that although I lost weight I was hungry due to the lack of proper nutrition and I still had stubborn belly fat 😹. Now with the tools I’m learning I not only know about calories but also macronutrient content as well as knowing that a 500 calorie cake with sugar, dairy, and bleached flour is totally different from 500 calories of spinach in volume, macronutrient, and micronutrient content. Years ago I knew it was different, that one was healthy and one wasn’t but now it’s even clearer why I can’t just survive on the same calories in processed junk as compared to real whole foods. Undernutrition is why we should all have a diet of whole nutritions foods always to help our bodies recover properly from workouts as well.