Amanda76’s BodyBlog

Wow…I’ve thought about starting a blog for a long time.  Long enough to realize I was probably too lazy and distracted to keep it up.  LOL  But now, I might need some help and support.

A little background:  I’m a 31 year old single mom of a 13 year old girl.  No, that doesn’t make this more of a challenge.    I gained an interest in bodybuilding around the age of 11 and have been lifting off and on ever since.  Life got in the way a few times, but I’ve been able to stick with it for a few years now. 

So, tomorrow or…I guess it’s today…

*sigh*

After I go to sleep and wake up again…I’ll be starting Dr. D’Pasquale’s Anabolic Diet.  One of the first things I need to work on is getting enough sleep, obviously.  But beyond that, this will be the first low carb/carb cycling diet I’ve ever tried.  I normally do really well eating between 40/40/20 and 50/30/20 (p/c/f) but am a little frustrated with it appearing that I’m looking exactly the same as last year. 

I just recently dropped my calories from 1,800 to 1,500 and cut back to a 4 day split expecting to have to add cardio to lose 1-2 lbs/week.  So far, I’ve lost 2 lbs a week with no cardio.  I’ve kinda wished I kept my 5 day split going but I’m guessing through the induction phase of AD (I’ll be going back up to at least 1,800 cals for that), I’ll be glad to have more days off.  I am pretty nervous about this change because…well, things are going okay.  Hard to know what exactly will happen with the Anabolic Diet, but I’m excited to find out.  And if worse comes to worse, I imagine I’ll still be alive to try something new next year.   

Time to shake things up.

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