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Whole Foods - Wednesday 5.99lb Hot/Cold Bar - 2 In The Afternoon… I’m looking at my calorie count for the day. It says -5299. That’s including the 2500 I’ve already taken in. Want to know why triathlon is insane? If I don’t want to lose any weight today, I need to consume something north of 7000 calories. Granted, not every day is like Wednesday. I wake up for a 100 minute spin before going to the track for 70 minutes of brutal on brutal off speed work before walking up to the pool for 90 minutes of swimming. Today, that meant 5100 meters. Sometimes, I take the bike back out for an hour around 5. Not today. Today, my feet are up. My eyes will likely close for an hour before I wake up ravenous and begin my wander through the world again, everything then settling in. Rest is paramount now. My vessel is getting tight. I’ve never counted calories before. It works. It doesn’t mean I starve myself or beat myself up. All it means is that I have a goal, and that I want to understand the SCIENCE of weight loss. Don’t eat shit, work hard, face a scale EVERY morning. Record, record. Understand the LONG TERM process. Understand why you’re doing what you’re doing. I want to stand on top of revered podiums. That moves me more than anything, and so all of this is actually quite easy.

Whole Foods - Wednesday 5.99lb Hot/Cold Bar - 2 In The Afternoon…

I’m looking at my calorie count for the day. It says -5299. That’s including the 2500 I’ve already taken in. Want to know why triathlon is insane? If I don’t want to lose any weight today, I need to consume something north of 7000 calories. Granted, not every day is like Wednesday. I wake up for a 100 minute spin before going to the track for 70 minutes of brutal on brutal off speed work before walking up to the pool for 90 minutes of swimming. Today, that meant 5100 meters. Sometimes, I take the bike back out for an hour around 5. Not today. Today, my feet are up. My eyes will likely close for an hour before I wake up ravenous and begin my wander through the world again, everything then settling in. Rest is paramount now.

My vessel is getting tight. I’ve never counted calories before. It works. It doesn’t mean I starve myself or beat myself up. All it means is that I have a goal, and that I want to understand the SCIENCE of weight loss. Don’t eat shit, work hard, face a scale EVERY morning. Record, record. Understand the LONG TERM process. Understand why you’re doing what you’re doing. I want to stand on top of revered podiums. That moves me more than anything, and so all of this is actually quite easy.

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