It's not rocket science and quite a well known fact that what you eat can impact you on many levels. Yesterday I witnessed this first hand. I knew about this, but making the connection is totally a different story. I was having a great day yesterday, the stream was a lot of fun, had a great workout all by nine in the morning. On the way back from the gym I was feeling a bit lazy and decided to stop by the store to get about nine hundred calories of food. My usual post workout meal. I like to eat twice a day and this works best. I wasn't paying attention to the quality of the food, they were not great, probably the worst stuff you can put in your body. I was fine till about two in the afternoon, where I felt a crash. I couldn't focus and felt tired, but not enough to fall asleep. It was strange, I never feel that tired in the middle of the day. I ended up being totally useless the rest of the day. This pissed me off, which made me want to take account of the day. Because it started out fucking awesome and I was high on life, how did it take such a drastic turn?
As I looked back, the only change was my food intake. I don't eat well all the time, but usually I eat junk at the end of the day as I'm going to bed soon anyway. It made me angry enough and quite disappointed in myself that I don't ever want this to happen again. I'm going to stock on supplies, more than the weekly stock up. Haven't made any drastic changes, just small tweaks to improve the constantly improving diet. I'm getting as close to perfection as I can get for myself. It's the first time in my life I have been able to get leaner by working on the 80/20 of body composition, diet. I've been working on my relationship with food, it has made the most notable change in my physique more than anything. It also feels a lot more sustainable.
Lesson learned, for the twenty fifth thousandth time this year. This small change (basically to increase the calories but about 200) has been in the works a long time. Turns out for the first time I was under eating by way more than I needed to because of a calculation error on my end. It's a good thing, that means I can get by with eating a lot less than I think I need to. In that sense it was the best happy accident of the year so far.