11/23/2011 – Wednesday

Tomorrow is the big day for my diet test. I am seriously debating if I can afford to have a slice of pie after dinner. If I do it will have to be early enough in the day where my body can process it. I am going to stick to the sweet potatoes, white meat turkey, and a few of other complex carbs.

I’m not going to post my diet today since it was much the same as past days. Major changes will be upcoming in my diet. My focus is carb timing, meal timing. Most people think if I want to bulk up, just eat allot of food and if I want to cut just eat less. There is so much more to it than that. There are allot of cutting diet rules that I am learning as it go. As long as I can come into this show as close as possible to peak show condition I will be happy.

I usually don’t crave sugary snacks but this last week has been torture. Stores are packed to the hilt with all kinds of pies, and treats. It has been a true test of my dedication to resist the urge to eat some of them. I will post tomorrow how my diet went and if I was able to keep it under control.

11/22/2011 – Tuesday

Today my family went to the zoo. We had a wonderful time together as a family, I managed to keep my diet in check with being out all day.

8AM – 1cup Oatmeal, 5 egg whites, 1 whole egg, 3 strips turkey bacon

11:30 – 5 baked chicken strips

2PM – Snack – Protein Shake

6:30 – Chipolte – Brown Rice and Chicken Breast

8:30 – Protein Shake

11:00 – Protein Shake with 1cup Oatmeal

 

Current Weight – 192

No cardio today sinced I walked all day at the zoo

11/21/2011 – Monday

Today was back on track for my diet, I cannot afford to derail like I did lastweek. I can feel and see the difference in the way I look. With the holidays coming up, I will need to be extremly careful in what I eat. I will more than likely eat some of the white meat turkey, and maybe some mashed potatoes. I also will bring my own sweet potatoes to keep bring in some of the complex carbs. The hard part is going to be seeing all of the pies going around and not taking my portion…

8AM – Cardio Session 1

9:30 – Breakfast – 1c Oatmeal, 5egg whites, 1 whole egg, 3 strips turkey bacon

11:00 – Protein Shake

2PM – Lunch

4PM – Shake

7PM – Chicken Breast and rice

Now that I look at my intake today it sucked. Will need to improve on this in the upcoming weeks.

11/20/2011 – Sunday

Today was my relaxation day, no cardio, no weightlifting. I take both Saturday and Sunday off from lifting, and by Monday I miss it. We are usually gone most of the day on Sundays, so keeping my diet in order is hard. I mean by keeping my diet in order, its hard for me to eat on time. So I missed a few meals today, but I did manage to keep my diet clean. So tomorrow is a new day and the third week of my contest prep.

 

On another note, I enjoy all of the questions and comments I get in person from my friends and family.

11/19/2011 – Saturday

Today was an interesting day, the day started off right with my diet. As the day progressed it got worse and worse. I’m not going to even bother to post todays diet because it was so far off. The interesting thing is that I can feel the difference in my body betweeen a couple of days ago and today with eating the wrong things. Tomorrow is a new day, and it will be right on the money. I did manage to get my cardio in today. As of Monday we are heading into the third week of contest prep. It is time to start taking progress pictures and posing videos. Don’t know how much of that will make it on here. Thank you guys for reading and for your support and comments to me.

On a side note, I can see which words people typed to get here. From Yahoo blog search if you type “before and after shake weight results” apparently my blog comes up. This blog is the furthest thing from the shake weight. So I got a good laugh from that it could be that I am just really tired and it not really that funny.

11/18/2011 – Friday

Today my diet was a little off, I meant to go to the grocery store last night. I ran out of eggs, so my Breakfast was missing a vital part of its nutrients, so I had to figure something else out.

7AM – Shake

9AM – Cardio

10AM – Breakfast – 1cup Oatmeal, 1 whole wheat toast, shake

12- Handful Raw nuts

1:30 – 1.5 chicken breasts, 1 lg sweet potato

3:00 – Workout

4:00 – Shake

6:30 – Dinner – 1.5 chicken breasts, either brown rice or sweet potato

9:00 – Late night snack – Protein only

11/17/2011 – Thursday

Another great diet day, although I did cheat in the evening for dinner. I really don’t even like to have my one cheat meal a week, but I really didn’t have a choice. We were out of town and didn’t expect the trip to take as long as it did, so we stopped at Rubios. I had the grilled gourmet chicken tacos. I had them remove the sauce so it wasn’t as bad. So it was grilled chicken, cheese, bacon, and a corn tortilla. It was delicious, and well deserved.

7AM – Shake

9AM – Cardio Session 1

10AM – Breakfast 1cup Oatmeal, 5 egg whites, 1 whole egg

12 – Shake

1:30 – 2 chicken breasts, 1 med. sweet potato

4:00 – Shake

6:30 – Rubios as mentioned above

9:00 – Chicken Breast

I have been waking up really hungry, so I may get up late at night and have some sort of a healthy low carb, low fat snack. I will need to look into this.

11/16/2011 – Wednesday

Really trying to focus on my diet. When I was bulking I really didn’t do much diet research, I regret that now. The knowledge that I have now in regards to carb timing, foods that are better to eat certain times of the day. Has really helped me see some results, I have increased energy in the gym, and out of the gym. My vascularity is way up, you can begin to see the “road map” beginning to show up. My muscle seperation is beginning to come through, which is something I have never seen in myself before. Something that is truly amazing to me is that even though I am in a contest diet and I can see changes in my phyique I am not dropping weight on the scale.

7AM – Protein shake (tomorrow going to mix in some oatmeal) added carbs

9AM – Cardio Session

10AM – Breakfast – 1cup Oatmeal, 6egg whites, 1whole egg, 2 strips turkey bacon

12 – Protein Shake

1:30 – Tilapia, 1 med. sweet potato

2:30 – 3:30 – Workout

3:45 – After workout Protein Shake

5:30 – Cardio Session 2

6:30 – Chicken Breast, either brown rice or sweet potato

9:00 – Chicken Breast (keep carbs low before bed)

11/15/2011 – Tuesday

Today is way more controlled in my intake, I feel dialed in and that I am getting the hang of my new restrictions on my diet. We went out lastnight and I brought my meal and shake so I wouldn’t have to worry about what I was going to eat. It made things much easier for me knowing that I didn’t have to think about it.

7AM – Shake

9AM – Cardio

10AM- Oatmeal, 5egg whites and 1whole egg, 3 strips turkey bacon

12 – Shake

1:30 – Sweet Potato and Ground Turkey

3PM – Workout

4:30 – Sweet Potato and Turkey

6:30 – Tilapia with a carb not sure what yet

8:30 – Shake

9:30 – 10 late night snack not sure what yet.

 

11/14/2011 – Monday

I am enjoying this new diet more and more. Learning allot as I go, its amazing that simple diet change make a huge difference in my phyisque.  One unexpected thing for me is that I really like tilapia, I thought I would gag the entire time.

7Am – Protein Shake

9AM – 9:30 Cardio Session #1

10AM – Breakfast – 1cup Oatmeal, 5 egg whites 1 whole egg, 4 slices turkey bacon

12 – Protein Shake

1:30 – Lunch – – 1.5 cups sweet potato, 10 oz ground turkey 97% lean mixed together  (this is really good)

2:30 – 3:30 Workout

3:45 – Protein Shake

5:00 – Sweet Potato, Ground Turkey – will update after time passes

7:00 – Tilapia with Sweet Potato

9:00- Final Shake for the night

I want to limit my intake of protein shakes to 3, but today was a little off. I will correct and fix tomorrow. People are starting to tell me I look “bigger” and more vascular, which is cool. It means my diet is working.