Monolith

King's Cross?

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Novo

She's delusional Mono!! She lives in a far-flung suburb you wouldn't have visited when you were here before, and refuses to heed advice that there is more to this city than that wasteland

Whereas Novo? Novo is smart enough to pick beachy Bondi, happy to conform and buy into the stereotypical Aussie lifestyle. I'm a walking bimbo cliche baby


Now get thee onto a ferry across the harbour to Manly in the sunshine Missy, and start viewing the popular hotspots (you'll see Luna Park en route). Trust me, some time out will be good - and you'll enjoy it, in spite of yourself!

Monolith

lol, bondi... i didnt even go there when i was in town. I heard it was just a gob of tourists for a pretty average beach, so i passed.

some of my roomates went with a video camera, though... there was quite a bit of nice "scenery."

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Novo

Sure, it's full of annoying tourists - and I felt exactly the way you described when I first got here. Then you see through that to what it's really like, learn to ignore the tourists and focus on the good bits (or, maybe cc has the right idea going for an outlying suburb )

Monolith

haha

Well the one thing that really struck me about oz was how cheap land was right outside a major city like sydney. I went up to the blue mountains, and on the way i remember someone mentioning what land was going for... and like 30-40 minutes outside of sydney 100 acres was going for like 100k AUD... which back when i was there was like $50k USD. 40 minutes outside a US city like new york or LA and just one house is like 2 mil.

Made me really wanna stay and not go back home.

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carbchick

hey don't diss mah 'hood. It's where the real people live.

Novo

Sure, I agree, it's the real world ... but I turned my back on the real world don't forget, it's more fun in hedonistic denial


I was just kidding, I'm glad you're enjoying R more now.

Monolith

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Novo

Well, it didn't seem fair to broadcast where she lives - it may not be what she wants!

Besides, didn't you stick to the Cross and the Blue Mountains? If Bondi was a trip too far, I think we can assume you don't know "R"

carbchick

Friday and saturday - off and off
food: no, 157P 40F veggieC and hi, 120P, 11F, ?C
Felt horrible all day saturday, kinda stressed and restless. shoulda gone to the gym, and wanted to, but like a dork I insisted no this is my rest day. derr. next time, get to the gym and sweat, girl, or sprint, or SOMETHING. didn't sleep well, awful sweaty and woke on sunday feeling like crap. bloated and crap and sickish.

sunday
Shoulders, squats

lateral raise machine
alt db press
military press machine
lat p.d. w/ parallel sh. width attachment
squats
chins

Wot, no weights, no reps? well that would be because this was my first session with the trainer who's earmarked me for progress. and her philosophy is to max out on everything, every time. so each exe was to total failure. starting with lowest weight, max out, then up and up till can't do any reps at all, then back down, failure each time. it was ... sweaty, and quick. and more than a little nauseating. especially the squats. Felt dorky going up and down endlessly with just the bar on my shoulders. Kind of went in time with the music, tempted to put a shimmy in there - until I got to squat #3768 when it started to hurt a bit. then, a lot. Add 10kg, and i'm dying. one of the trainers said to me afterwards 'don't ever let her train you she's a sadist!' But will it build muscle? well she says, yes. We'll see.

schmardio: in the mood for madness, 12 mins of HIIT sprints on elliptical. Yummmm.

food: a struggle. stomach all over the place, couldn't fancy anything. 106P 24F veggieC

carbchick

monday
back/bis
deads
dead2row
cable row
lat p.d. sh.width parallel
T-bar row
bi DB curl
chins

all to failure, no rest as before. Deads were - amusing. went between 110lb and 60lb for as many reps as could, until I just couldn't lift that 110 any more. Back was on fire. crapola db curls, up to 12.5 for 2 reps then back again. it all makes for a pounding workout. mofo mode.
no soreness from yesterday's shoulders/squats.

schmardio: 12 mins HIIT on elliptical. I am really into sprinting right now. dunno why.
this killed me.

food: a cockup. supposed to be lo, but 107P 36F veggieC looks remarkably similar to yesterday. I literally had to force it down. painful stomach bloat woke me up in the night: something really didn't agree with me. tomorrow will def. be lo.
I feel a flubbly fatarse again. all in the mind though, right? Right.

Monolith

You ate a cock-up?

Interesting habit...

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carbchick

don't even go there. I can out-filth you, let's leave it at that

Monolith

Hey, you said it, not me. I know i wasnt eating any cocks-up when i was in Oz.

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carbchick

just throw em on the barbie. Cobber.

stu_20_uk

hi carbchick just been reading through some of your journal lookin pretty good. Are you carb cycling? If so your high carb days dnt seem very high carb if you know wat i mean?

- A hardcore bodybuilder is one who thinks that vomiting after the last set of squats is such a waste of protein.

carbchick

yes stu it is carbcycling. I don't list the C on hi days though, so how do you know how many carbs i'm eating on those days? trust me, it is a LOT.
Tuesday
Legs
bb squat
sled leg press
leg curl
leg extension
front squat

There are 3 leg press sleds at my gym. I've only ever used the 110lb one, loading up as needed. In mofo mode, I decided to try the lot, and just go from one to the other along the line, until I couldn't do any more. when I got into the first I noticed it said 300lb unloaded middle one, 260. It's amazing how light 110 feels after those 2.
I had that feeling of temporary muscle loss afterwards. you know, when you take a step and then it gives way and you seem to sink a further couple of inches? niiiice.
for squats I went between 2 bars @100lb and 60lb, continuous ATGs. legs didn't fail but had to stop after 6 mins due to lower back pain. something amiss with my form? bending forwards too much?

schmardio more sprinting 13.5mins elliptical HIIT. go me, I did an extra set.

food: lo carb 141P 30F 70C
emergency fat gain signal! I am a flubby whale, my ass is hyooge and waist ditto. Me no no likey. Me panicky. shall I jettison carbcycling, go back to carbchick's crapola diet? aargh arrgh. I'll never put on mass I just lose it ALWAYS at this stage. So, now I cut, and back I go to no-muscle land. I hate this cyclical crap. Feel trapped. BUT it's there, the adipose, that's the fact of the matter. shite shite. WHY does it have such a crushingly depressing effect on me? It's SO juvenile.
No. I'll stick with the cycling another week, that will make 3, and assess what has been going on - with what little objectivity i can muster

Monolith

Well your lifts certainly look good if youre leg pressing 300lbs.

Are you losing muscle at the same rate as fat on this diet? How much weight are you dropping per week?

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carbchick

Wednesday
had better days. overslept, nearly bagged the gym but then thought better some than none, so went.
Chest tris:
flat db press
inc db flye
pullovers
tri pressdown
dips
overhead tricep pulley thingy
chins

schmard: 6 mins HIIT elliptical and this nearly made me very late as opposed to just late.
better than nothing, indeed. but once again I'm forced to admit I feel crapola allova. finally decided better go to doc's and he prescribed:
no gym
more sleep
chest x-ray (he listened to my chest and said, 'oh god' - I think that's gotta be bad)
antibiotics
Zoloft (why does this make me depressed?)
cough med (should get me off to sleep nicely at least)
nicotine patches.

He may as well lock me in satan's pit and throw away the key. no fags. NO FAGS. no gym. NO GYM. which is worse? they are equally intolerable. however, however ... I feel shite, I have done for at least 6 weeks when I last went to the doctor saying I'd got a cough like a seal bark. and he ignored it, and me, and so I've been harbouring a chest infection for 6 weeks and it's no wonder really I've felt like every day's a miserable struggle. So, so, my better self is telling me that for once I should give this geezer's advice a try. he'd met me just 5 mins before he said, 'you're very inflexible aren't you'. I don't think he was referring to my achilles tendons. so maybe he does know jack shit.
anyway I prob shan't post for a few days. I'll just try to keep sane, eat now and again, sleep a lotta lotta lot, take my drugs and be a good citizen, no trouble to anyone, zzzzzzz.

Monolith

I hope you feel better soon.

What antibiotic does he have you on? It's strange to combine an SSRI with an antibiotic, as some combinations can create some pretty unpleasent reactions.

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carbchick

Clairthromycin. Spill it, what do you know?

Monolith

Oh... i really dont know much. It just piqued my interest, as i recall some antibiotics potentiating the effects of SSRI's, leading to seratonin syndrome and other such fun. Im sure your doc knows what he's doing, though.

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carbchick

wish I had your confidence

sara

Wishing you all the best carbchick

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carbchick

thanks sara
update: I'm on the last day of antibiotics, chest x-ray was clear and doctor had to admit, not bad for a 30-a-day smoker, changed from Zoloft to Effexor, massive sleeps, minimal crappy food choices, still on the patches, also got some gum which is yuck. trying to think of myself as a non-smoker. sense of smell has returned - poisoned chalice.
Doctor is singaporean and I think he's got a prejudice against chicks who exercise. so - by sunday I was climbing the walls for lack of exercise, so I went swimming. Monday, 45 min run with 8x100m sprints kicked my ass. might as well make use of the lack of smoke going into my lungs + take the opportunity to put some oxygen in there.
tuesday, went to gym, light wt/high vol workout: giant sets leg press/lunge/MP; bbsquat/arnies/lat raise 3 times thru, 2 mile run there and back. in the rain. was loverly.
going to keep this week light on the weights and get some cardio fitness back. I used to run 50miles per week. I used to be a non-smoker. y'know, back then life wasn't all bad. maybe this is the push I needed to put several things in my life in order

or maybe it's the effexor talking

Monolith

Cool, glad to see things workin out! Effexor is a neat drug. I'm on it at 150mg/ed. It's just about the only SSRI/SNRI that doesnt promote weight gain.

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carbchick

I concur most heartily mono, effexor is indeed neat. it's been a funny old week. I've found myself humming on more than one occasion. Walked through the mall with I'm sure a gloopy smile on my face. Felt, well - Heppy, dahling o so heppy, for the first time since I can't even remember, and for no especial reason at all.
Dr. Delight of the happy pills better give me some more come saturday, or else risk the Unholy hell of the Hex of Carbchick, shrivelled privates being the least upsetting part of the package.

continued with haphazard unplanned off the cuff type exercise, but did some every day: weds was another couple of giant sets: deads/cable row/shrug; lat pull/T-bar/upright row. 3 times thru, 15-20 reps each. Ran to and from gym. jeez my legs are killing me. Those sprints really did do some damage. calves are tight little snooker balls. must remember me to do some stretching sometime.
Thurs, just 35 mins of park running. soggy ground, nice and soft good for knees. legs still f***ed over from Monday, no sprinting as such, but some quicker bits and some hills.

Food stayed clean but I haven't logged it. I guess it was a tad low in cals but OK in protein. I'm looking rather chunky again, I've taken my eye off the diet ball a bit too often in the past week.
legs tight, diet relaxed. Need to reverse that. and pull together some kind of a proper program for the coming weeks. One that includes cardio and sprints 2x/wk and lifting 4x/wk with at least 2 days rest. hmmm ...

funny how I don't give too much of a rat's ass about being a chunky monkey ... haven't smoked a ciggie for a week and got happy pills to blow the blues. Enjoyed he running, enjoyed the lifting immensely, enjoyed college, sleeping like a beauty, losing that yellow nicotine pallor around the face, hell I even enjoyed the rain -- and frankly that's all good enough for this little ray of sunshine, right now.
The fat can hang on in there until I'm good and ready to do something about it.

carbchick

holy sh*t I almost dropped onto pg 3 of the journals
I'm feeling pretty bouncy right now. Everything in life is absolutely ripping. (it's stopped pissing down and spring is on the way). I'm all ready for another gruelling week at college, I've got my new split all worked out, and I'm having a clean sweep on the diet front as well. Decided this weekend I hate all my current meals, and diet plan, and everything. I want a complete change and I'm gonna give CKD a whirl. I've never done it properly + feeling experimental; the last week or so has seen a collapse in any kind of regular controlled eating plan and I'm sick o' that. CKD is nicely anal and planned to the last fat gram, and that kind of fits my mood right now.

ended a so-what week with some so-what training. Friday was day off and teaching for 4 hours, my lovely lovely class of 9 studes. I taught them how to make a gazpacho and then they each had to stand up and tell us all how to make their favourite recipe. we had kimchi from korea and fried fish from Iran and a strange concoction of yoghurt and noodles from China, which sounded a lot more appetizing than anything I ate when I was there. we also examined the olympic medal table and tried to work out why Iran wasn't on there at all, and why the UK is so crap at swimming when it is such a tiny island (answer: the North Sea).

Saturday, did a couple of giant sets 15-20 rep, 3 times thru: machine bench/db flye/close-grip bench; inc DB press/bench dip/french press, plus 2 supersets of bi curls and militaries. 20 mins of cardio. one of those workouts where I felt better for having done it, but it really wasn't anything special. At all.

Went to the dullest party on god's planet in the evening. arrived 7.15, left 10.15 and I'd been desperate to leave since 7.17. Party animal, c'est moi.

Sunday
back, bis
Deadlift dropsets 132x8/70x6; 132x9/70x6; 132x10/70x6; 132x8/70x6; 132x8/70x6; 132x8/70x6; ... you get the picture. as many sets as I could. which turned out to be 8.
chins 3 sets of holding at the top and sawing up and down as many as poss which was x4, x3, x2
lat p.d / T-bar row supersets 100x12/40x8; 110x10/40x8; 110x12/40x8; 110x10/40x7
T-bars solo 40x8, 40x7
bb curl, bar only x12; bar+6lbs x10; bar+11lbs x8
db curl 15x6/12.5x6; 15x6/12.5x6/10x8/12.5x5
alternate hammers 12.5x12; negatives w.15dbs x10

schmardio: ran to gym and back. just over 2 miles with hamstring-busting lung-gasping hills. nearing home so steep it's like running up a wall

food: 105P 86F 14C
you get some funny old 'meals' on CKD.

Emma-Leigh

Hey Carbchick!

Thought I would drop in and say hello since I now know who it is I have been 'spying' when I read this journal (Hmmm.... Do you get the feeling you are being watched?? ).

Emma-Leigh