#thecleansing

The next couple of weeks are going to suck. Bad.

I have had my last bottle of soda today. I had two bacon cheeseburgers with it, and chips. I finished off some marzipan and some chocolate cookies. That means: I am all out of sugar now. And I intend to buy no new sugary stuff.

I will be trying, once again, to battle my sugar addiction. I have fallen, and fallen deep again, having soda and sweet snacks pretty much every day. For the next at least two weeks, my diet will be very restricted: water, one meal a day, and that meal will be chicken, rice and vegetables. For desert: apples. That’s it.

I will document my development over these two weeks. I know that two weeks are a very short time for changing a body, but I will still try to keep this diary here in order to see what impact such a severe change of diet has. I will also continue to work out every day, with some particularly hard workouts ahead due to my progress being stagnant over the past few months. Inspired by Scott Herman I have begun to incorporate “cheat and recover” techniques to facilitate muscle damage and hence muscle growth. (Yes, I am aware that strict diets and muscle growth don’t go well together, but I am not at any kind of advanced bodybuilding level.)

Anyway, the main idea is to see how much my body can change in two weeks, and if I manage to shake the addiction, I might continue on this strict path until I find something else that tickles my fancy. So far, the aim is to

1. work out every day for 1 - 2 hours (depending on muscle group or training focus)

2. eat only one meal a day

3. make that one meal a chicken, rice and veggies based powerhouse

4. do not consume any crystallized, purified sugar (honey for combating the meanest sugar cravings is okay, as is fruit)