I bought creatine in powdered form. I was surprised at how small it was.

I was warned that the powder tastes like chalk. Ive tried mixing creatine with water and I concur. But with milk and protein powder you don’t even notice it.

Regardless of the protein recommended and the warnings from my friends I have been craving the protein shakes so much that I end up consuming 200g of protein a day from the shakes alone. In addition to that I still drink milk but I have been skipping breakfast because  I am not hungry.

I’m still working out Mondays and running on Tuesdays.

3 rounds on the punching bag
3 sets on the bench press
3 sets of dead lifts
3 sets of elevated crunches
3 sets of fishes (for the back)
3 sets of pull-ups

and if there is time we squeeze in some jump roping.

I finally got the routine down so I know what I can do without hurting myself.

Myostatin is a protein which inhibits muscle growth.

There are cases of myostatin-deformed (cannot inhibit muscle growth) being larger and more physically fit.

The Government says that creatine appears to be a myostatin blocker. Most myostatin blockers in the world are illegal.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20026378

Starting weight: 125 lbs (6/1/10)

I’m taking to loading dosage (26.5 grams), whey protein powder, one gallon of milk daily and I’m excersizing intensely for 3 hours per week and 5 hours light.

I am currently at month 2 and week 2 for Creatine.

UPDATE 8/19/2010:

Day three. I’ve been taking almost the recommended amount (20-36). My stomach can’t tolerate too much I’ve discovered. Other things of note, I’ve been waking up in the middle of the night for 3 hours each time before falling asleep. Could be the sudden heat wave though. My appetite has taken a noticeable drop. But I’m consuming 150-200 grams of protein a day on average. Not a lot of carbs though. I’m getting cravings for Chinese food.

When I find it, it will be in the comments below.

Windows xp is Enf-Of-Life’d on Oct, 22nd 2010.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-xp/end-of-sale.aspx

Google sorts it’s responses by popularity, right? That means the most popular answers to downgrading 7 to XP are no answer at all. Microsoft extended the downgrade to 2020. Great! How do I do it?

Windows/Microsoft doesn’t provide the answers in an obvious place, a remote place and thus far it’s not in a distantly remote place. Windows sure is cutting there own throats by offering a product and insisting we operate it there way. They demand you upgrade to outlook 2010 or Windows Live.

Really? You didn’t have to do anything to keep Outlook, but instead you spend the cash to ensure Outlook 2010 is just different enough to be incompatible with all other previous version.

I find pages of questions ‘how to I down grade?’ and pages of responses ‘Why would you want to downgrade?’

Can I get my question answered before I answer yours? No? Fine.

Not supported in Windows 7:

Highend antivirus software
Previous versions of Outlook
Workhorse printers
The fact that despite not needing to, they change so many little things like the control panel

Enough bothers me that I’m honestly considering the pros and cons of Google’s Chromium. Windows clearly does not get it. SIMPLE. People like it simple. Once they learn something the don’t want to have to relearn it. Fortunately my company operates almost solely on the internet so the switch-over won’t be all that crazy. I’m thinking of getting them Google netbooks because it’s so cheap it’s obscene.

Vitamin C.

I’ve been taking 3000mg of vitamin C for the past 3 days.

I’ve had a cup of coffee, Tampica juice, chicken, rice, corn and spaghetti for the record. Plus Mondays and Tuesdays I have weight lifting and cardio for an hour and a half.

I feel my mood has elevated and my mind has cleared up some.

Now, I have taking vitamin C many times before getting up to 25,000mg in a 24 hour period. This is recorded though and I will post my findings on days I miss taking C and days I do take it. To me knowledge to only adverse side effect is the eventual diahrea. But combines with the gallon of milk which has the side effect of constipation it should balance out.

My cravings for milk has returned.

I had this false data floating around from my ‘poor white trash’ days that milk was expensive so I shouldn’t drink it.

That cleared up early 2010 and I started drinking 1 gallon per day.

Despite people telling me that much is ‘unhealthy’ I did it anyways.

After two months the cravings stopped and I drank 2 – 4 (8oz) glasses a day.

Well I’ve started the workout routine about a month ago and now I crave milk a lot (about a  gallon a day). I attribute that as the primary cause. I’m guessing it’s the calcium but I really don’t know.

I am studying sugar and have found fructose to be very bad a large quantities. I will monitor my body and behavior for a similar reaction to lactose (gets processed in a very similar way)

Definitions are provided by: http://www.merriam-webster.com

Depression: 2.b.a state of feeling sad

Sick 5 : lacking vigor

With the above defined I wonder if most people are not badly malnurished rather than mentally ill.

Here is an ad and response to our modern cure for depression.

Knowing what I do of biochemistry I conclude that the makers of this drug found one thing that works sometimes and ignore the additional symptoms, as with the other anti-depressants. Never mind that suicide does not occur without some severe cause for that reaction. Never mind that suicide has gone from somewhat negligent to bizarre Columbine homicidal levels.

Abilify and any anti-depressant scares me. I was even offered some in the hospital, no prescription.

I hate to be the subject of my own testing, but this is entirely on my own. I will seek funding for a more scientific means, but alas – until then.

Generally I am content and sometimes enthusiastic with friends, sometimes not. But sometimes I fall down to boredom and I just want to sleep the rest of the day away.

I recognized this feeling right after I take vitamins or eat a healthy meal when I come out of it.

I don’t notice that I fall to boredom when I eat fast food or drink lots of soda (except for the normal headache).

Typically every weekend I would consume approximately 1 gallon of Coke and I would have an incapacitating headache (9 or 10 on the 10-scale). It wasn’t until I was 18 (3 years) that I realized the soda and headaches were connected.

I had heard a saying “If you’re craving something but don’t know what it is, it’s Vitamin C.”

I’ve tried this and it seems to work about 70% of the time.  But, it the interests of science I also took B-complex a little less than half the time in addition.  I have taken B-Complex and salt alone 25% of the time and suffered through it the last 5% of the time.

While boredom is not the classical depression, I am also very active.

Summary:

Having lots of Vitamin C (I took 8000 mg) is a necessity (40lb dog generates 5,000 mg per day)

So I will have to conduct a depression test involving workouts, jogs and vitamins and nutritional foods on people with problems with being depressed.

Alright, first entry in the Journal. I’ll eventually sort these out. To the vast majority of future readers I should already be done.

Funny that.

January 20, 2008 I had a stroke which I will go over in some future writing. But, following the event I was prescribed aspirin, Plavix and Lipitor. They had no clue what caused it but those drugs should have take care of it.

I researched them and Plavix was new as was Lipitor. Lipitor seemed unnecessarily risky and Plavix was a lifetime drug. I took it for 5 days and after adverse affects I stopped all together. Ever since I’ve had this persistant headache.

I started body building and cardio and I think I’ve sweat just about everything out because suddenly I don’t have the headache anymore. A year and a half of a category 1 headache (the most minor) and it’s gone. The stroke followed a category 9 headache and twice before I had 10′s.

So, yay!!

-lj