Undesirable No. 1

I make no reference to any movies with the title of this post, but myself am becoming "Undesirable No. 1"  I was going to wait until the we were finished with our carb cycle to post again, but I wanted to give some updates. We are just finishing our 3rd of 5 cycles with this plan and there are several undesirable aspects that I have discovered.

1. High Carb day really actually sucks. You would think that after 3 days of low carbohydrate intake, the replenish of glycogen stores into your body would feel amazing. Welp, no. The rush of insulin makes for shaky sensations within the muscles and mind. Not very welcoming when you also must put your heavier lifting/workout day on high carb day.

2. The first low carb day after high carb day there is an incurable hunger that takes over, resulting in "hanger" (anger due to hunger).

3. By the 3rd low day brain function is essentially seized. The formation of complete sentences within the brain are a struggle and then to actually expel them from your mouth to make sense takes too much effort, thus speaking properly does not take place.

So why then does this make me undesirable no. 1? I cannot function properly within society during carb cycle. Withdrawal from social obligations is inevitable, it is too much work to mentally converse with people and therefore I seem to be this "undesirable" person. I try to make sure I am not coming across as this miserable person, especially to new people, but what you see is what you get until we are finished with this section of our competition prep.

I have not taken any progress pictures or done any measurements since the first day of our first carb cycle, I wanted to leave all of that for the end which will be a week from tomorrow. I have, however, checked the scale a few times. During this part of our competition prep I have lost 1.5 pounds. Again, weight has no value as a measurement to what we are trying to accomplish. We are aiming to lose body fat, but it is always nice to see something changing to stay motivated.

On another note, we have had 2 of our 3 posing classes and feel so accomplished in what we have done in the last 5.5 weeks and am looking forward to what the next 7.5 weeks has in store for us.