Reorientations Days 2 to 5 and Deadlifts

Reorientation/low carb days are boring, huh?

Diet
Nothing to report here in terms of my reorientation other than the fact that I've successfully stuck to lower than 30g of carbs these past 4 days. Although, I do worry about the amount of fruit I have consumed and I would like to reiterate here that I should probably just stay away from it (stay away from it, Melissa!) - but watermelon just goes so well with a  hot summer's day! I am a massive worrywart, however, and would like to confess that I may have exceeded the carb limit because of my greed for fruit. However, a reality check reassures me that I am probably still in the green and haven't consumed as many carbs as I want to think I have. Either way, I must finally resolve to boot the fruit! My new tip is to down some water if the fruit-thirst comes along.

I won't bother posting my food log here because I'm mainly eating the same old uninteresting things and also because I've left a few days of nutrition logs incomplete; my patience for logging homemade Chinese food in MyFitnessPal wears thin...

Workout
I've been to the gym 2 out of these 4 days which was the plan although I ended up working out today when I was supposed to work out yesterday. Not that that is at all significant, hah!

I haven't detailed the specifics of my training before, but at the moment I am following Bill Starr's Madcow 5x5 Intermediate program. I had spent a good while mucking around with programming, trying to incorporate the powerlifts whilst focusing mainly on the Olympic lifts but to no avail.

I've decided to switch up my focus and K.I.S.S. by committing myself to making progress with Madcow whilst focusing some time on technique in the Olympic lifts.

So far, it's working really well for me, although I am still only in week 3.

Deadlift Competition
Today, I finally competed in one of my gym's monthly competitions.

I managed to lift a PR of 102.5kg at 69.5kg bodyweight. I am more than pleased with this as I have struggled in the past to get over 100kg when attempting to hit 105kg. I was always worried about my back caving however the coach reassured me that I wasn't so I feel like 105kg is achievable!

This landed me with 2nd place for the under 30 females! Chuffed with the result.