Sunday, January 28, 2024

Hmm... 10K calorie challenge?

 Well... the intake:

Let's take Hafþór Björnsson's diet. That's about 10.000 kcal :-D

Breakfast:
6 fried eggs, lots of bacon, french toast, and orange juice.

Second breakfast:
Rice, spinach, bison, stock, and an orange
(About 200 g meat, a cup of rice (boiled), 1 tbs butter, and 1 tbs dextrose. Yes. Sugar.)

Elevensies:
the same as 2nd breakfast

Lunch:
the same as 2nd breakfast + carrots and eggs

Afternoon tea:
the same as lunch

Dinner:
Steak and potatoes, carrots, spinach

Supper:
French fries and chicken wings

that's seven meals, and to get to 10.000, each should be about 1500

Some changes to add calories:

Change the breakfast to modified full English

6 slices of bacon, 4 fried eggs - in butter - 2 links of sausages, 1 fried tomato, 3 slices French toast, with 1 tbs orange marmalade on each, washed down with a large cup of milk tea, and a glass of orange juice

About 2000 kcal.

- pastries, the fatter the better. Lots of cream and sugar, like caramel. Chocolate. There's about 300 kcal in a croissant. Eating two croissants with filling, like bacon and cream cheese shouldn't be too hard. Wash it down with juice or a milkshake. Some 600 kcal in cookies and cream milkshake. 

So, what to do? 

It's easier to eat through 10.000 calories than to burn them. A marathon burns about 3,500 kcal. Ironman competition burns about 8.000-10.000 kcal. That's a marathon, 4k swim and 180k biking. The current record is about 8 hours for men and 9 for women. It will likely take 12 hours for an average person. 

Especially if you are eating all that stuff! 

Basically, all the aerobic exercises, like running, biking, rowing, dancing, whatever makes you sweat and breathe harder, burn calories. So - choose 12 hours of your favorite aerobic exercises. If you don't like biking, don't go biking. Just remember it's not leisurely jogging, you have to work to burn those babies. :-D

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Let a search engine decide...

 


My breakfast:

Cardio exercise: The Best Fat-Blasting Cardio Exercises You Can Do in Your Living Room

Yoga sequence: Yoga Sequence for Core Strength by Jason Crandell


Lunch: Buddha Bowl

Strength building exercises: 

Dinner: Carbonara

Afternoon stretches

supper


Frankly, I don't know what that is, except that it's plantbased and soup. I wonder if "supper" means soups here, or supper... I assume it's soups. :-D
So... carrot soup? Pumpkin soup? I think I'll make some vegan golden soup. (And then fry some bacon on it... >:->)


Saturday, January 13, 2024

The progress so far

 I'm doing good with the languages 

I am struggling with the food, though. 1 kg per week weight loss is good, but I am not keeping the diet, and that bugs me. Also, the exercises aren't happening :-(

Well, well, I have the rest of my life to do this :-D

I was watching the "Eat 10.000 kcal, burn 10.000 kcal" and I'm having difficulties understanding the thinking of these guys.

Ok, so they all have problems with sleeping because they start eating at midnight - something they don't usually do - and don't get enough sleep, the sleep isn't too good (because of the unusual, huge meal at midnight), and they are tired and not rested the next day. All these guys are good at exercising, so why do they change something so important the night before something so important?

Also, they don't drink/eat the way they usually do for heavy workout days. Which causes the exercise not to go as well and easy as it should. 

They also all eat just things like junk food, pastries, and candy, so their body isn't fuelled as well as it could be. 

Now, Dwayne Johnson is said to eat about 5000 kcal every day

“Power Breakfast” (meal #1)

According to his Instagram, the Rock enjoys a “Power Breakfast” after he finishes his first workout of the day:

flank steak (8 ounces)

eggs (whole and egg whites)

brown rice (1.5 cups)

sautéed mushrooms, onions, and peppers

Mid-morning (meal #2)

cod (8 ounces)

sweet potato (12 ounces)

vegetables (1 cup)

Lunch (meal #3)

chicken (8 ounces)

white rice (2 cups)

vegetables (1 cup)

Mid-afternoon (meal #4)

cod (8 ounces)

white rice (2 cups)

vegetables (1 cup)

fish oil (1 tbsp.)

Late afternoon (meal #5)

steak (8 ounces)

baked potato (12 ounces)

spinach salad

First dinner (meal #6)

cod (10 ounces)

white rice (2 cups)

salad (leafy greens)

Second dinner (meal #7)

egg white omelet (10 eggs)

vegetables (1 cup)

fish oil (1 tbsp.)

whey protein (30 grams)

The Rock gets a bulk of his calories throughout the day from protein and carbohydrates and a moderate amount of fat. His diet is balanced with lots of vegetables, protein, and complex carbohydrates.

Post-workout shake

The Rock also sometimes consumes a post-workout smoothie within 10 minutes of finishing his workout.

According to his Instagram, his post-workout smoothie contains:

65–70 grams of whey protein

1 apple

30 grams of carbohydrate powder

1 scoop of electrolyte powder

creatine

water

ice

I would use this as the base for the 10.000 kcal diet, just choose the fatter alternative (like salmon instead of cod, whole eggs instead of egg whites, chicken thighs instead of breast filets), add sauces, oil, butter, add nut butter to the workout smoothie, throw in a couple of dates, spoon in coconut oil in everything, it doesn't taste much but adds calories. 

I think I'd also divide it further, eat more often, small meals, to help my stomach deal with the amount of food. 

And then I would do a variation of the Iron Man race. Apparently, swimming 4 km, biking 180 km, and running a marathon burn about 8000-10.000 kcal. :-D


Tuesday, January 2, 2024

A year ago...

 I posted "101 things in 1001 days - one more try". And then I promptly proceeded to forget everything about it and this blog. :-D

Do you think it's going to be better this year?

Nah. :-D

I'm in the mood to learn languages, so I found "Improve Your German in January 2024", and the first prompt was to find three things I look forward to this year. 

I have nothing.

Then I started thinking, what would a perfect year look like?

I just had a very disappointing Christmas. The Christmas Spirit just didn't appear, even when I was trying to do all kinds of things to make it do that. I suppose it's that I'm not 10 any longer and youngest of 6 children. When I was a kid, I had a big family to celebrate Christmas with, and now we are only two, and my husband is Jewish and doesn't celebrate Christmas. A bit hard to get into the Christmas spirit, isn't it :-D

So that is one thing I'd love to change. I want to look forward to Christmas and other holidays of the year, arrange great parties for each of them, and have the home decorated and filled with holiday spirit. And then, after dinner, cuddle in a comfy chair with a book, a cat, a cup of tea, and a plate filled with baked goodies, and nibble away... though that's a wintry delight. Something else for Spring and Summer.

Another thing on my mind is that I would like to travel. And I would like it to be as comfortable as possible. Which means, that I need to be fit. And I need to have my travel wardrobe in perfect working order. I want to be able to eat anything and enjoy it, too, and I want to be able to speak the language and feel at home wherever I go. I think I'll plan a bus tour of Europe with my hubby. 

Being fit and light, having a working wardrobe, being able to eat and enjoy food, and being able to speak several languages fluently, that's a good plan.

Then I want to be a reading person. I really want to read at least 124 books this year. And I want to read books in different languages, not just English. I CAN read books in French and German, and I KNOW that is the best way to upkeep languages, and not only to upkeep them, but improve them. Yet I don't do it. :-( Stupid me.

I also want to be an artist and an artisan. There, too, I CAN, but I don't do anything. :-(

Another thing would be to get my home in perfect condition. To have a home I'm proud of, that I can invite people in, at any moment. Open my door to everyone. I would LOVE to be so rich that I could buy me a Jugend apartment in Stockholm, and a big one, with 3-4 rooms. And to be able to hire a housekeeper and secretary. 

That's another dream I know I could make real. I want to write. Write, translate, illustrate. And get really, really rich :-D So that I can do all those things I want to do.