Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Done…

The test I did today…  Well, I’ll let you be the judge.

Before I begin, here was my itinerary for the 24 hours before the test.

There are just a few instructions as well:

1) No exercise within 24-48h
2) No caffeine or alcohol within 24h
3) we ask that you eat ~550 g of a president’s choice meat lasagna or the roasted vegetable blue menu lasagna (keep the receipt and we will reimburse you for it) the night before the trial. Please eat before 8 pm, and eat nothing else until after the trial the following day (you can drink water, but nothing else – we will provide your lunch after the trial).
4) please bring movies to watch (no comedies please – the laughing affects our results)
5) you will only need boxers or shorts as apparel.

With the above information I ate, drank and mostly obeyed all of the above details (might of did some running/biking).  I got up at 6:40am and packed my lunch for the day.

I drove the hospital which is near my work.  There I met my two handlers (who have been with me all along).  I was instruced to strip, only allowed to wear a pair of running shorts.

First item was to get my body fat tested.  Any guesses?  Well acording to the very accurate scan (CT maybe?) it came out to 8%.  Tied for the lowest that they’d seen.

Afterwards,they handed me a small plastic cord.  I asked what this was and he said an anal probe.  I said wha?.  Yup, I was suppose to insert this thing in my butt; easy he said, easy.  Hit the panic button.

He said he’d give me lots of time (Nanna I’m sorry if you have to read this) to get it in.  So I went to the bathroom and well, almost passed out!  Maybe it was the lack of breakfast or maybe it was the length of the probe itself but man I started to feel queasy.  So bad in fact that I had to lay on the bathroom floor for a bit…  No joke.  I was in the phetal position wishing I was anywhere else.

This was for science.  I was helping these people save lives (no I wasn’t but it helped).  Get it together.

After a good 5mins of nausea I finally got the courage to…  probe myself.  My confidence at this point took a hit.  I proceeded to tell my handlers that I almost didn’t make it; thats normal they said.  One guy I guess took 45mins to do it.  Another guy inserted the probe and then took it out, thinking that he didn’t have to leave it it (that would of sucked).

Probed and half naked, I was ready to begin my test.

Which I will finish tomorrow!