Kai2008’s BodyBlog

I got my 12 wk plan from Derek….WOOT WOOT!! I will be doing the CHA 1400 plan starting on Monday. I am seriously nervous though. The diet is way more calories than I was taking in, it even seems to be more than my maintenance! I hope I dont gain weight/fat but I’ll also be doing more lifting and more cardio than I was doing. Derek is the expert so I plan on following this to a T but any encouragement would be great. This is going to be much different than the plan I have been doing and I was starting to see changes at my current caloric intake. I have faith in Scivation though……everyone who has tried it seems to rave about it so heres goes nothing. I might as well enjoy the extra calories while they last!

I have tried the recipes most people use to have their oatmeal….cinnamon, protein powder, splenda, etc. and no matter what, yuck!! I finally tried a recipe that wasn’t half bad, probably not the best macro breakdown, but taste-wise, it was yummy!. I used 1/4 cup oats, milk, pepper, eggbeaters and cheese (full fat which is the bad part of the recipe). I ended up with what tasted like hashbrowns and eggs…YUM. I’ll have to try it with reduced fat cheese and see if it tastes as good or I’m also thinking of maybe just not cooking the oatmeal and mixing it with eggs dry. I found another recipe that I want to try that is an oatmeal carrot cake recipe which is completely clean. Can’t wait to see how it turns out this weekend!

So, unfortunately, I haven’t gotten my plan from Scivation. For now, I am on my own! Its 10 weeks until Memorial Day weekend and my first beach trip. I am starting a 10 wk cutting plan today to hopefully get the fat off before switching my focus to building some muscle. I am starting out with 1500 calories per day with one day at maintenance. Here’s a sample diet plan:

Breakfast - 2 slices toasted Ezekiel Bread with eggbeaters, fruit

Snack - Fruit, Reduced Fat Cheese …might start bringing whey into work, looking for something easy and transportable to bring to work for this meal

Lunch - Shrimp, Spinach, and Quinoa

Snack - 1/2 serving almonds

Dinner - Chicken/Steak/Shrimp and veggies

Snack - Eggbeaters/Veggies/reduced fat cheese, 2 tb peanut butter

Training:

Upper Body, 1X Week

Lower Body, 2X Week

Abs, 3X Week

HIIT, 3X Week

LISS, 1X Week

Any comments are appreciated! I plan on starting with this and then evaluating my progress each week and tweaking from there. If I dont hit my goals, I’ll add more cardio or tighten my diet some more. I am worried about getting too strict with my diet though because I’m afraid I might binge so we’ll see how it goes.

I am anxiously awaiting my new diet and training program from Scivation!! I can’t wait! This will be the first time I’ll be following a diet created by someone other than myself and I’m really looking forward to seeing some results.  I’m hoping to start it next week.

I have none!!! I am dying to get rid of this damn thigh and butt fat, I feel like I have been trying FOREVER and it wont budge. I need to be more patient. I actually do think there has been a slight change since I started eating clean again in January and my calories have just now dropped, so it’s too early to tell if I’m losing weight on that yet. Hopefully, this week will show a drop. There is bodyfat testing going on in the gym at work today so I going to get that checked since I havent had it done professionally in about 6 months. I am hoping for somewhere from 17-19%. That way, I’ll know I’ve been making progress but that I still have room for improvement and a chance to get rid of the big C word (CELLULITE! Argh!!)

Ok So, I figured I need to start making myself more accountable and maybe by making a blog, others encouragement or kickin me in the ass would keep me going through the year. I started a cut in January after a couple months of being lazy through the holidays and a terrible diet from about Halloween through Christmas…yikes now that’s a long break!! Anyway, I have gotten back in my groove pretty quickly but haven’t seen huge results yet. My weight is about the same, maybe even a little higher but my waist has gone down about an inch yay! My biggest issue is some stubborn fat on my thighs and butt that I am determined to melt off before focusing on building up some more muscle. This week, I started an EC Stack and reduced my calories to 1500 and I’m feeling really good. I feel like changes are coming, I already feel like I can see a difference in just a few days. Oh and I kicked ass on my leg day on Tuesday. I hit an almost 200 lb leg press, 125lbs on that butt blaster machine, and 80lbs on both leg extensions and leg curls.

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