Day 8 - I'm Lov'in It

 Finally some real food and lots of it!  As the Mac jingle goes "I'm Lov'in It".  I am having no problem with all this fresh veg, fruit and fish.  Would you believe I am still hungry after eating almost 2kg of food today!

Exercises ok but feeling a bit tired.  Need more sleep?

Day 7 - The King of Lunges

I have worked out that ROUTINE is the secret of PCP.  You fall out of your routine and you fall out of PCP.  Having a holiday on Monday in HK didn't help.  After a nice dim sum lunch for Mrs. Ferrier's birthday (at the swanky new Ritz Carlton joint) we spent the day lounging around home where I was just a little too close to the fridge.  Half portions, I'm afraid, went out the window.  I did however, try to eat well, mainly fruits and vegetables but found myself constantly looking inside the fridge ... perhaps it was the cold air?  I also missed my Nuts (see previous post).  Anyway, things went a little off track wtih the half portions.   Today things are much better on the food front (now that I have my Routine ... and my Nuts).  

Dim Sum at the Ritz Carlton - Nice Dim Sum ... but better views.

I also worked out that my shredded quad is not actually my quad but my shredded my hip flexor.  Which is a pain because this is a large muscle and is difficult to fix once strained.  Straining that muscle is big surprise to me because I consider myself to be "King of Lunges".  Even my little blue man has me doing a perfect straight backed Lunge!  No one could out Lunge me ...  now a baby ferret could Lunge better than me.  The upper part of my inner thigh even has a nasty black and blue bruise about 6 inches long.

PS. I will spare you the pic. 

Day 5 - Food Glorious Food ...

Thankfully exercises this morning were Ok, even with a shredded quad.  I can't wait to do those lunges again. 

A thimble full of scrambled eggs and slither of turkey bacon for breakfast ain't gonna cut it. Even as I write this I am thinking of Hash Browns, a nice FAT pork sausage and fried eggs ... oooh yeah baby ... that's what I call a breakfast.

Small cheese snack at mid day and was already thinking about lunch.  Lunch was grilled seafood fajitas (I can't even say it let alone spell it) without the tortillas (that's the half I decided to skip).  Dinner was half a steak and a salad... But I'm still hungry. All this discussion about food is making me even more hungry ... I'm going to stop writing now.


Ps. It's Mrs Ferrier's birthday tomorrow and its off to the 103rd floor of the Ritz Carlton for dim sum.... god I am still thinking about food.. Think I'll got to bed now...  one last thought ...

Day 4 - Pop, Crackle and Snap!

Well it was more like a "Thwack" really.  I was finding the exercises pretty easy so starting pushing on the lunges by going deep and keeping my back straight yada, yada, yada and Thwack/Pop/Snap" bugger me if I didn't feel someone throw a cricket ball right into my groin! Aarrgh! Honestly, I had to look around to see if my 6 year old son had thrown something at me. 

I had strained the top part of my quad. I have had pulled muscles before but never, ever from doing fixed exercises. Its always been while playing active sports like squash or football. I feel kind of embarrassed really.  So it was an ice pack for 10 mins.  I soldiered on and managed to finish the sit ups followed by the ice pack again.  I should not have pushed hard so early in the program.  I am hobbling around a bit tonight.  I guess tomorrow morning I might start with some stretching before getting into the exercises.  Half diet was good - drinking lots of water.  And .. oh yeah I managed to find some resistance bands in causeway bay.

Day 3 - Nuts!

I have no regrets about "skipping" (yikes! ... its in my subconscious now!) out after only one martini last night.  Up bright and early at 6am and straight into the exercises.  The exercises don't seem to be a problem at the moment and I'm looking forward to cranking it up a bit (I know I will regret saying that!!). 

I have decided to take the half portions more seriously now and for breakfast had what seemed like a thimble of scrambled eggs and a slither of ham ... ouch ... this is going to be tough.  Fortunately, I thought about Patrick's email this morn' and having a strategy to "get your mouth busy" ... sounds positively obscene.  Anyway my strategy was ... well, Nuts!  I had a bag of almonds in the office and about 3-4 times during the day, when I felt a twinge of hunger, I grabbed 3-4 of them and washed them down with plenty of H2O.  It worked a treat.  15 almonds a day can't hurt, right? 

I am having some problems tracking down resistance bands and a pull up bar in Central, HK.  I think there must be some "PCP lurkers" out there that have cornered the "band and bar" market and I'm sure next week, just when we need them most, you will see "band and bar" price jump 300%.  You gotta love HK! 

Finally, I got a call from an old work colleague Jono N, who just completed the PCP.  I didn't even know he was doing it until yesterday. Small world and awesome job Jon.  Check out his blog.

http://thepeakconditionproject-jon.blogspot.com/

Day 2 - Martini Kimchi Meltdown

After reading about all the my fellow PCPers doing half decent job of half breakfasts, half lunches and half dinners I started to feel a half guilty and decided to take the half portion thing more seriously.  All went well until a group of friends hit the Korean BBQ dinner that I had planned prior to PCP.  About half a cow later ... someone suggested martini's at a cozy Japanese bar.. who was I to argue.  I am sure that normally I would have had a dozen so I was lucky to walk out of there after having one.  Job well done.
Exercises were fine... even the skipping and managed to squeeze in some squash.  Justin 3 : Mike 1. 

Day 1 - Finally Started

Well we are finally here.  Day 1 of PCP.  First task was a wander around Central (Hong Kong) to try and find a jump rope and push up bars.  I had no idea these things were so popular.  Probably all the PCPers out there.  All the sports shops in Central were sold out and I finally managed to find what I needed in Wing On Dept Store. HK$50. Bargain!

Got the toys ... so we are all set ...

I haven't skipped since I was 10 years old and was dreading it but the exercises were fine.  Even the skipping ... must be the new jump rope ... But be warned ... we have been told that we are in for some pain. 
Diet was a bit of problem.  Not sure if I really ate half my normal portions.  It was more like 75% and feeling ok for now.  Lets see how we go tomorrow.  Also, determined to blog every day around this time....  and add some pics.