Day 22 - Your Body 101.

Today got to the studio in Yokohama on a cold dark night  having crashed out on the train from Tokyo.
Did a workout with Patrick and Kazue and then he proceeded to zap me with a magic scale that told me a few things.

The good news is as follows

1. I have low visceral fat (Mmmm...visceral faaaat) which  means that I am at lower risk of various diseases.
2. My muscular percentage is not great but not bad either. He's seen worse.

The bad news is

1. I have high 'subcutaenous fat' (This fat sounds snobby) which Patrick pleasingly dubbed 'the wetsuit'.
2. My body likes to store fat...in the muscles. This explains why despite swimming/jogging/recently capoeira my muscles still look rather sad.
3. My body will raid energy, guess where? From muscles.

We cycle round to the good news.

I need to keep eating protein. To be blunt 'We're going to keep you tanked up'. Team Io, I promise to bear this burden bravely. Patrick looked worried when he told me this, but really, I've embarrassed bigger men than him with how much I can put away.

I then celebrated all this by eating 1.5 times the protein I should have for dinner. I know this because Matsuya kindly labelled how much was in that steak. Not to mention the salt. I think I was feeling a bit emotional and COLD, and telling shop staff that 'No, I don't want the rice nor the miso' depleted my will to eat just 2/3 of the 140 g. of steak. It was nice though. Patrick, any suggestions on what I should do to recover? Less carbs tomorrow? Or just push on regardless? I know that shutting my mouth is a good starting point.

In other news, things are looking better re Fukushima, but it's a long road ahead for the people in the North of Japan who have little to eat and are fighting for survival. For once, I feel some empathy with the things I see on the news and it makes me sad and grateful at the same time.