Ionized83’s BodyBlog

So I’m definitely back in the ‘game’ of things when it comes to eating better, and maintaining an exercise routine.  The holidays seemed to hit hard for me and threw me off the wagon to success, but I’m back on!  I’ve acutally got serious enough to get involved with a dietician -along with my family Dr. 

I have new motivation now though, and that is my Dad.  My Dad is 44yo, he just turned 44 Nov of 2008.  Recently he had bronchitis and before heading to work he took out 2 bags of garbage, well while holding them up, he coughed and this brought him to the ground.  He made it back inside his home by crawling, and he wasn’t sure what happened.  Later we all found he had fractured L1 Vertebral body in his lower back.

Your bones in your back should just break from a cough, so tests were done, and the bad news was given.  My Dad was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma (Bone Cancer.)  He’s set on a six month chemotherapy treatment and though the prognosis sounds good, hes in horrible pain with his injury.  It has really made a huge impact in debilitating him.

See him with a Cane and sometimes with a Walker, when his pain is at its worse, in hindsight, has shown me how important it is to be thankful in having the ability in weight lifting, and doing things he now finds challenging.

So when I’m not feeling in the mood to head to the gym to push iron, or to get up and take that jog, I always think to myself that I can, knowing presently it is something that my Dad cannot do. 

He’s optomistic as am I.  But this is my new motivation.

So today I start my new plan, or as I like to say- my ‘new outlook’ on life.  After seeing my family doctor, and a registered dietician; I now have a healthy meal plan to follow and a new take on exercise. 

Since I want to lose weight, I’m going to focus more on cardio training and less on weight lifting. I’ll still do weight lifting, but it’ll be more of a focus on higher reps. 

As for my new meal plan, its one that I want to encorporate that I can follow for the rest of my life, that is well, very practical. I was doing these way low carb diets, and finding good results- but after a stretch of following them I’d find myself binging on bad foods etc. 

I’ve learned some new things too.  Like for instance on the Nurtition lable.  Did you know that the Sugar content listed comes from the total Carbs listed? I thought these 2 were completely separate. So to know that one cup of Skim Milk has 13 Grams of carbs, and 12g of sugar- its nice now to know that the 12g of sug come from the total 13g of carbs. 

My Dietician also wants to increase me Carb intake, WTF? This is against everything I’ve read in magazines and even from this site! But again this is no fad diet, its a life-long diet. Her ‘mantra’ is that I eat a sustained amount of good nutrients/calories and then just work harder when it comes to exercise.

It makes sense!  So here is my break down:

5 meals

with a break-up of:

Meal 1 60g Carbs, 12g Fat  500-550 calories *** Protein is whatever I get from my foods-she’s not concerned about this.

Meal 2 30g Carbs, 12g Fat 300-350 calories

Meal 3 60g Carbs, 12g Fat 500-550 calories

Meal 4 30g Carbs, 12g Fat 300-350 calories

Meal 5 30g Carbs, 12g Fat 200-300 calories  ** This meal is light because its the last meal of the day.  This will work great too, since I do work third shift, and I don’t want to take into much calories- since I’ll be heading to bed soon.

Diet is based on 2000-2100 Carlories for now.

So we’ll see how this goes. I find that I always do better when I stay consistent in logging things and esp. if I have to answer to others. So now I have to answer to my Fam. Doc, and to my Dietician.  Sites like this too will help!

Oh, and this morning without really watching my protein intake, of all the foods I had, it equated to 32g of protein, so I’m pretty sure I’ll be doing fine in this dept. The Carbs and Fats are where I have to look closer at. 

Even though my Carbs are high, they’re based on *Nutrient complexed foods. So like Skim Milk. I had a trainer in the past tell me Skim Milk was bad, because of the 11g of Sugar.

My Dietician ‘lauged’ and said, yea, but what-else are you feeding your body? Vitamin D, Magnesium, Protein, Etc..  which does make sense. Plus this will feed my body good nutrients to give me the energy to burn energy!   

More to follow as I progress with this new approach.

-IONIZED83