I woke up at 3 am feeling completely empty (food empty). Before that I’d been up to visit the toilet several times. I tried to fall back asleep but I couldn’t so I got up for a little while. Took a look in the mirror and concluded that something had happened since yesterday. I really need to fill up with carbs before saturday.

 Todays food is following the plan I set up. It is like yesterdays, except I am exchanging more protein towards carbs and also exchanging some of the bulgur and chicken to oats and whey protein.

Just had a portion of oatmeal and whey and got tired again. Going back to bed for an hour or two and when me and Johan wake up again it is time to pack the last things and take our car to Gothenburgh. Looking forward to it!

Getting rid of the salt was wonderful. Chicken and bulgur on the meny the whole day and a little paprika powder to put some taste on the chicken.

…looks exactly like yesterdays food. And ALL meals are the same. Lean beef with huge amounts of salt… Add 10 liters of water to that and that’s it. Tomorrow I’ll cut the salt and reduce the water a little. Also slowly starting to eat more carbs. Not many days left now! www.luciapokalen.nu

Lots of nice pictures taken by Tobias Karlsson today… Here is a sneak peak – will post more of them in the future.

 I am freezing all the time… not the kind of freezing that you can stop by putting on some extra clothes. I am freezing from the inside, inside my bones. I know this feeling, if I did not have it a week before competition something would have been wrong (too much fat left).

Tea seems to be the only help for raising my body temperature right now, and of course I do have my tea favourites.  Mostly I drink greeen tea. Either vanilla or mint flavoured – or just plain when I feel like it. At nighttime I choose peppermint tea. And it does matter what brand the tea is. Twinings has the best tasting green tea with mint. While Lord Nelson comes from Lidl and are just superiour in taste for the other two green teas and the peppermint tea.

I have never tasted Ben&Jerrys Ice Cream. It does not really appeal to me. People always question why, but I do not have any good answer to it. Stubborn as I am I will always refuse to taste it

For the second time in my life dreamt tonight that someone was going to force me to eat it… 1 week left until competition day – not strange these dreams are occuring.

Approaching my first competition a couple of years ago I dreamt I was on a boat where the only thing served was Ben&Jerrys Ice Cream – and I did not bring any food. Panick!

This latest dream was different, I don’t remember it all in detail but I know the only “food” available was Ben&Jerrys and someone was trying to force me to eat it. I did not though.

When I was in LA I found a maltodextrin based fat free Icecream at Coldstone. I ate it after training.

 All these ice cream thoughts reminds me of what probably is my favourite ice cream. Too bad I’d have to go to the US to buy it… The skinny cow sandwich, sugarfree and low fat.

Time to wake up! Going for a little morning walk before waking up Johan. He’s going to help me painting my body before I’m meeting up with Andreaz to take some gym pics.

Mackerel fillets in tomato sauce. (Canned food is just so good sometimes!)

Natural cashew nuts

I have started planning and preparing my food for the last week before the competition. The last couple of days I want to keep as sodium free as possible. I know that Casein protein powder generally is higher in sodium than Whey… So if I’m having protein powder it has to be Whey.
Yesterday I discovered something though… All my delicious tasting protein powders from Optimum Nutrition has salt as a part of the ingredient list. Damn!  (I do know that all kinds of foods contains some sodium naturally, but I will definately not eat those with salt added the last couple of days).
Below is the ingredient list of my current favourite ON Whey Protein – Caramel Toffee Fudge:

Far back on the shelf I found an old classic taste though… Double Rich Chocolate. I find it boring compared to the new “fancy” tasting whey protein powders but this one does not have any salt added…

Some googling shows me that the classic taste Vanilla Ice Cream has least sodium per 100g. Thad would be the best but since I do not have it at home at the moment I guess Double Rich Chocolate will be my choice (not many mg more sodium than the vanilla taste).

These days I am reducing time and intensity of morning cardio as I do not need to get leaner – which is the reason I have time for these blog post with not much meaning When the gym is opening in about half an hour I’ll go for a leg session… See u!

Fitnessfestivalen is a happening once a year that no training person in Sweden should miss.

5th and 6th of December Svenska Mässan in Gothenburgh is filled with competitions, expo and lots of other things.

Visit www.fitnessfestivalen.se or www.luciapokalen.nu for more information.

Optimum Nutritions 100% Whey Caramel Toffee Fudge… Delicious!

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