Day Fifty: "Setback"

So today I face the revelation that I lost muscle this past week. I didn't slack on exercises or food. It appears the culprit is a lack of sleep. This is frustrating because there isn't anything I can do about it. The midnight calls from NY over the past week came fast and furious and I was waking up several times a night. Lucky to get 5 hours a night, most of it was interrupted sleep as well. I have half a mind to turn off my phone and let others deal with the problems, but that is irresponsible, and quite frankly as the senior trader on my desk, there is no one else able to make these decisions.

Worked out at Patrick's studio with Rich and Jason F (former PCPer who is going to be starting the 6-week Chisel program). The new exercises are brutal. The floor jumps after squats and pistol squats were particularly painful. The shoulder presses as well, I was failing by the 3rd set and we had another to come.

Still a bit disappointed by my weigh-in set-back (I also dropped a total of 1.4kg over the past week and my body fat percentage stayed the same, which was not what I want--I don't want to lose any more weight, I want to gain it in muscle), I went to a house-warming/birthday BBQ at a friend's place in Hiroo. He has a great deck although it was very cold out at night still. I took veggie sticks with me and a chicken thigh I threw on the grill with no condiments/flavouring added. Luckily, the organic chicken is tasty on its own and it received plenty of smoky flavour from the baby back ribs drenched in BBQ sauce next to it. I don't know if getting salt/sauce particles through the air is PCP-friendly, but it was the best I could do. I suppose I could have used my indulgence on the BBQ, which, I had to admit, was an awesome spread. The host's girlfriend is an amazing cook and there were brownies and casseroles and sausages, steak, two kinds of ribs, grilled prawns, potatoes, salad, veggie sticks and dip, birthday cake, all sorts of things. And I have no doubt that the food would be tastier than 95% of restaurants out there. But I had gone in with the mindset of not using my silver bullet on that werewolf and instead on something else, so I stuck to the plan. Hope I don't regret it.

Take care fellow PCPers, hopefully you had a better week.