M-A-S’s BodyBlog

So got my box from bodybuilding.com the other day. And after my little fiasco of me consuming everything under the sun, "I eat because I’m unhappy and I’m unhappy because I eat", I needed that box. It was my saving grace. I had ordered some Optimum Chitosan. I’m not going to say it was only the Chitosan but combined with a mostly Tuna diet over the past 2 days I’ve widdled down to 204.5 from 211 in 16 days. I’m thinking I’d already be past my goal of 199 if I could only get into the gym on a more frequent basis. I’m seriously going to try to get in there today and do some chest. I have a knee apointment this morning at 10 and hopefully they tell me I can drive again. I can walk with just a little bit of a limp, but my quad still feels weak.

The novelty of weight loss is a great thing. That first whole week, you are determined as hell to make it. You eat right. Work out hard. And tell yourself, this is it, I’m going to finally do this. Then life happens. The novelty starts to where off. You find yourself saying oh, i’ll just eat this one thing than that’s it. Next thing you know you are sitting in front of an Ultimate Double Whopper at Burger King.

I have strayed. I was doing a great job, i lost 4.5-5 pounds in like five or six days. Then I totally strayed. I shot back up to 208, which i’m thinking is just potty weight because I hadn’t gone yet when I weighed myself….though you’d like to know that…anyway, due to the fact that I have a bumb knee right now and i can’t drive or even walk to the gym (to far to hobble) I won’t be able to hit the gym the way I want to until next friday when i go back to work. I work nights and the Gym on Ramstein Air Base is just around the block from where I work so I can just limp on over to there at my regular time. As for right now I’m really really going to try to restart eating clean. I ate an ultimate double whopper yesterday and the whole time I was eating it I was telling myself that I shouldn’t be eating it.

So my knee surgery is less than 12 hours away. I am actually excited. Hopefully everything gets fixed and I can resume normal workouts in like 2-3 weeks, of course doing low weights on legs to build my strength back up. But seeing how I will not be able to go to the gym or do any type of real cardio, I’ll have to rely solely on a strict diet.

Here are my targets:
1.25g to 1.50g of protein per lb of bodyweight = 261grams – 313grams
10 calories per lb of bodyweight= 2085-2200
Carbs = less than 100 per day
Fat = Less than 60 per day

Projected Food Schedule:
Meal 1:
2 scoops Syntha 6: 400cal, 30carbs, 24fat, 44 protein
Grapefruit: 102cal, 26carbs, 0fat, 2protein

Meal 2:
12oz Can of Tuna: 350cal, 1carb, 12.5fat, 55protein

Meal 3:
2 Chicken Breasts:  260cal, 0carbs, 2fat, 54protein
½ cup spaghetti sauce: 30cal, 8carb, 0fat, 2protein

Meal 4:
12oz Can of Tuna: 350cal, 1carb, 12.5fat, 55protein

Meal 5:
2 Chicken Breasts:  260cal, 0carbs, 2fat, 54protein
½ cup spaghetti sauce: 30cal, 8carb, 0fat, 2protein

Meal 6:
12oz Can of Tuna: 350cal, 1carb, 12.5fat, 55protein

Totals: 2132cal, 67carb, 53fat, 323protein

Second day of training was a little dissapointing, I was doing cable rows and when i pushed off on the foot plate my knee popped, my knee joint locks up because I have a torn meniscuse. On Friday I go under the knife to get a torn meniscuse fixed. I’ve had the injury for a while but, have had issues and haven’t really been able to get in a good leg workout without hurting myself. I’ll have to focus on clean eating the next two weeks while i’m recovering. -MAS