Day 29

Another week has passed and everyday comments on how thin or how well I look are heard more often. Indulgence has taken place since during the weekend I wasn’t feeling well and now my girlfriend is with the flu, I’ll wait so that we can have a nice night out to a restaurant; really looking forward to it.
I just arrived from the grocery store where I bought massive amounts of fruits, different kinds so that I don’t get bored eating the same thing. A little worried about this week’s dinner menu since I love eating meat or fish at night but I have to give it a chance. Fortunately I’m in the tropic so variety is great.

On the other hand I’m doing pretty well with the exercise doing the 1300 jumps on 3 – 4 series, yesterday, since it was only jumping; I did 600 in a row. I was absolutely amazed. Few times I have felt that I just can`t finish a series of pull ups or davinci but I’ve forced myself and a few minutes later I feel great.

At school I just started ob-gyn clerkship and don’t know yet if I like it yet. There is a tough thing about this one because I have an on-call night every week so I really have to be organized about exercise and packing massive lunch boxes.

That’s about it for this week, doing great really happy about the results, lost 9 kg and looking and feeling better every day.

Day 22

I was completely disconnected from the Internet since last Friday. We had a long weekend since Monday was holiday here in Colombia. My girlfriend’s family invited us to spend the weekend at a pool-house a few km away from Bogotá. It was great. We had an amazing time. However, PCP diet is extremely tough in a trip like this. While everyone was eating the delicious hand food filled with salt and oil they served all day long at the pool, having them with a heavenly icy cold beer I was having a plate of papaya or pineapple with a glass of water. It was hard, I have to confess the twice during the four days I was away I had a huge glass of whiskey filled with 19/20 part of water and 1 of liquor. Gave me the feeling I had a glass of alcohol to toast and share with all the family. Also on several occasions I had to have food with salt, it is hard enough that it was bathing suits, swimming pool, sun, and coconut trees all around then you have to add the component of being invited … you all understand.

In the long run I think it was OK. I managed to do all exercise, replaced jumping for swimming on Monday, ate almost perfectly almost every single time and had a great time. Looking back to the trip I realized that everyone with a few kilograms to spare where really jealous of me. Now back to real life.       

Day 15

Since the beginning of the program I have had a hard time writing the Blog, but this few days have been worse. Now it feels absurd to write about a lot of what now seem tiny problems that when people are dying and nuclear reactors are about to burst because of an earthquake and tsunami. Hope everyone is ok. However, I understand that it’s crucial for the program to write. So here it goes.

Last week was terrible for me in terms of time and as Patrick said I felt I was eating tons and tons of food, the hardest was to eat all I had to for breakfast.  I am really happy about the reduction this week. Yesterday was the first day that I did not finish my exercise and I felt terrible. It was only the rope jumps so I let it for last thing at night, and when I got home I was really tired. I started jumping and after the second series of 200 I was falling asleep while jumping so I just went to bed. Felt terrible today.

The last two days I’ve had at least 4 people telling me that I look better, skinnier. That’s always nice and helps to raise motivation and work harder. I just got home from the supermarket buying vegetables and will work hard on my exercise.

Day 10

Just finished my exercise and it’s getting tougher but I’m loving it.  I can’t figure out how much time do you’ll got to ask all those questions cause between classes, seminars, symposiums, clerkships and on-call nights (like last night); and then you add 45 minutes exercise plus writing my thesis (first draft due in tomorrow) then reading the 25 or so emails from fellow PCPers everyday, by the way great questions I had some of them really clarifying video, … I’m felling great but there’s a lot going on right now. Diet is fabulous I happen to have an, almost perfect, help in my house that I just hand in the grams I have to eat everyday and she takes care of everything from going to buy groceries to cooking delicious yet extremely compliant with the instructions and varied food to packing everything in perfect lock and lock boxes and the in zip lock bags so I can take with me everywhere. That’s helpful. With the exercise perfect, I’m taking about 35-40 minutes on it this week and now I feel that I’m working my muscles. Doing great very happy, hopefully next week I’ll have more time to write mine and read and comment on your blogs.

Day 6

Ok so I have been having trouble writing in the Blog just got home today Sunday 6 p.m. in Bogota. The past two days (The whole weekend) I have been in an ACLS that’s Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support course and exam. It was hard, but I A’s it. So in the middle of a terrible clerkship comes a hard, and long, exam, plus I have to hand in the first draft of my thesis this Friday. I’m really stressed about that.

I’ve been talking to my fellow medical students about the program and everyone has something to say, it’s kind of annoying. I had a very nerdy friend who started to say something like –“studies have shown that fruit………..” Oh just shut up and do the program yourself instead of telling me about what studies have shown.

I feel am eating like a bird, I’m not eating half but about a third of what I usually eat but I’m feeling great and not feeling hungry at all. My strategy has been trying to eat at least 6 teams a day very small portions. One night just out of curiosity I weighted a piece of meat that I was going to east 60 g. Usually I eat around 200.

Feeling great and enjoying doing all exercise and this week I have to replace eating food for eating books.

Day 3

Well I’ve been kind of avoiding the blogging; it’s kind of weird writing like this. I am in the middle of a 5-week mandatory forensics clerkship that that is really awful. So fortunately I have PCP to take my mind off it.

First day was the worst, I was hungry all day long, since then everyday has been a little better in terms of hunger. The exercise: first day I did it in 15 minutes and said to myself that it was nothing, I felt it the next morning when I had doubts about getting out of bed feeling like an old person, today much better. I understand we have to start slow but I’m psyched about working out more, it’s coming I know. I already feel better about myself for starting on this awesome journey.