Diet almost With Passion
My original plan was to do a very low carb diet, but after speaking to several people who have helped me in the past and some who haven't - I decided to use a carb cycle approach. This isn’t to say very low carbs won't come in later. Right now, I'm on a "keep it simple" diet. My only goal is to keep the carbs at or under 200 grams per day and the protein between 300 and 350. This is all I'm tracking at this time.
Base Diet
This has been my base diet for the past 4 weeks.
Meal 1 - 4 omega 3 eggs, 1 cup egg whites, 3 slices brown rice bread and 1 tbsp ICBINB
Meal 2 - 3 scoops low carb metabolic drive
Meal 3 - Subway flatbread with 3 chicken breast, lettuce and green peppers, Coke Zero
Meal 4 - 3 scoops metabolic drive
Meal 5 - 10 oz chicken, turkey, or lean ground beef with hot sauce, Large green salad, 1/2 green pepper with 2 tbsp natural peanut butter. A few days a week I will have 2 organic taco shells
Meal 6 - 3 scoops biotest whey and a handful of almonds
* I mix 4 scoops anaconda and 4 scoops mag10 and drink before, during and after training.
* I also drink close to 1.5 gallons of water per day.
On Saturday I break from the diet after Meal 3, but don't get insane about it.
In time this will change and I’ll fall into a carb cycle, but at this point I don't need it. Over time most of the shakes will be replaced with real food meals, but for now the hunger isn't bad and the shakes are way easier to deal with. The reason I will switch to real food is it takes longer to eat and when I'm hungry I want to actually chew something. There are few things worse than being VERY hungry - waiting three hours for a meal -chugging it down in 5.4 seconds and ending up hungry again 3.7 seconds later.
As you can see, this entire diet is very simple. I have zero meal prep and only cook breakfast and dinner. This makes it easy for me to do and doesn't require me to totally change my life to accommodate cooking, cleaning and eating. I've always made my diets very simple and easy to implement and have been able to get pretty lean doing so. If I was going to do a show, then things would be different, but all I'm doing to dropping fat - not exactly the hardest thing in the world to do. It just takes a basic plan, discipline, consistency and training your ass off.
My body fat from last weekend was 10.29% (taken 7 site calipers) at 271.
I began the diet with 13.9% body fat weighing 285.
My bodyweight was the same as it was two week prior but my body fat went from 11.85% to 10.29%. I knew my diet was too tight from the start and I lost muscle because of it. I always do this but I'm now beginning to think it helps mentally because when I do realize it and make the adjustment the diet isn't anywhere near as bad.
The changes I made to my diet and training over the past few weeks has helped to put my muscle back on while still dropping fat. As I wrote earlier I don't want to drop faster then 1% every two weeks because I know from past experience I drop too much muscle way too fast. As you will see my diet is nothing special at this time and I won't make any changes until I feel I need to.
Belts, etc
For those who follow my log for business advice, tips or just my ramblings on how things are going and what I'm up to, things are really coming around. We have almost doubled staff since the first of the year and are still looking to fill 2 or 3 more positions.
As you can see the new articles page is up and a huge improvement over what we used to have. There are some things we still need to fix - title bar, author search, thumb nail icons, etc but overall it's doing what we want. This will allow us to publish more content as well as get your feed back on what does go up. This way we're not just using article hits to determine what content to put up but your real feedback as well.
Over the year, you’ll begin to see every aspect of the site change and become updated. There will be a few new things, some will expand and become better and more functional, others will just become an archive function of the site.
My goal was to have this all done a year ago, but there’s much more to this than creating new web pages. To do the things we want to on the front end, the web site, we had to completely change our back end platform. What I thought and was told would take three months, ended up taking 16. While we still have a few more modules to integrate, it’s far enough along to start putting more focus on the front end.
That's enough before I begin rambling about the other four main projects I'm pushing hard right now.
However, on thing to keep your eyes out for will be our new belts - the first promotion on this will be terrible - you'll understand after you see it.