Yougart, cheese and other milk products.
Tofu? some.
Drinks, Cider, beer, wine …
There’s also germinated seeds, of course mung bean sprouts are well know, Mustard seeds … not fermented but it does make for a more digestable product/food stuff.
Fermented stuff isn’t always easy on the stomach to start off with so small quantities might be advisable. They also tend to have disagreeable flavors due to the fermentation being due to yeasts, moulds and bacteria that create ‘toxins’ that tend to be acid. I don’t like saurkraut either but if I started with small quantities I am sure I would get used to it like with natural yougart.
Just be ready to take some ‘ultra levure’ if you do take fermented foods, you never know how your digestive system might react.
I think I’m suffering from Gump syndrome. My job today was to take the dog out, so decided to go for a run. I did not plan this but lost the head somewhere along the way and went a bit silly. Let’s go a little further etc.
Anyway it was too far, too damn high, too stupid and I was feeling every extra pound I was carrying by the end. I am surprised at my general fitness levels though considering the last 2-3 years of work, work and more work.
The dog however is a useless running partner. As a terrier it wants to be boss. When it doesn’t get to control the pace itself it gets a right cob on. It then goes and finds some shit to roll in. I just cleaned the bathroom on Friday.
Here’s the proof.
I got myself a Garmin Fenix 3hr and it’s been great. Records everything I need it to and more and is proving motivational. Today was just under 6.1 miles and 1600 feet in elevation change
My Garmin Fenix 3 can fuck off. Sunday it told me my VO2 max is poor but I was prepared to let it ride given the time I spent trying and failing to stop the dog rolling in shit.
Another run this evening, pretty flat course and while I was still hurting from Sunday the stupid watch still tells me I’m fat and unfit. Only a very slight improvement in VO2 max.
Mine was very encouraging about my excellent work out this morning - ‘Great, you are more active than normal!’.
50 cms of snow, over twice that when the bloody plow went by in the night and pushed it across our driveway. An hour of shovelling to get clear. Go fuck yourself, watch.
Reminds me of a run in with the most useless human being I’ve ever met. That fucker shovelled a heap of snow from in front of his car to in front of mine in full knowledge I was about to leave for work. He then did a half job of clearing the drive but was happy to boast about his 4wd Volvo.
Another 3 mile trail run today. Not been a great week. The home working just isn’t conducive to me training. Training partner terrier was again useless and my Garmin is still telling me unwanted truths.
One thing I am finding is that in an ideal world I’d build up fitness and strength on a relatively flat course. Basically get the miles in the legs. The intensity levels I’m hitting here feel too high to actually build stamina. I could be wrong as HIT is all the rage but it doesn’t quite feel right at my current level.
Played first game in nearly 10 years. Probably oldest player on the pitch by same margin.
Despite lacking fitness, still scored two goals (playing as centerback) including a half volley on the turn and a 30 yard strike
I am fucking knackered and only lasted 60 mins. I looked like Jan Molby at the end of his career but it felt good beating local Sunday league side (ambulance drivers)
Went for a run at a favourite dog walky spot and half way round decided to explore. Why? 10 minutes later I’m jogging on some track and I haven’t a clue where I was. Back tracked a couple of times and then gambled and got lucky. A nice run of 4.5 miles with plenty of stops to motivate terrier running partner and find my bearings.
Not losing any weight though. Certainly feeling better, and perhaps a little tighter round my middle but no weight change.
My Garmin is still telling me things I don’t want to hear.
These can provide a decent approximation of what it claims to be measuring, but the estimation is badly affected by significant changes in pace/intensity, especially with something like HIIT where the hard intervals are at intensities higher than your aerobic capacity.
Yeah, I’m not surprised by that. For example I know it’s reading my heart rate a little incorrectly at times.
The outputs are fascinating. Distance, elevation changes and heart rate data combined with things like calorie output etc.
The bits that I’m laughing over are the fact that it’s telling me my performance is in the lower 35% of people (vo2 max) for people my weight and age. It’s now telling me that my daily activity levels are higher than most across the board. You can’t have it both ways FFS. (Yes you can for the record but it doesn’t help my mood)
All in gest of course but the vo2 max figure is disappointing but not unexpected. Also worth remembering that most people that use a Garmin and log stuff are going to be pretty active.
Do you have any history of your Vo2 max? A friend of mine has been diligently recording his for years. He got covid in Fall 2020 and dropped from the mid 50s (really quite good for someone in their 40s) to the mid 30s (average to mediocre). Haven’t talked to him since last summer, but it had really drained the joy out of running for him.
