ManDanStan

I let this week get to me.  I let this MONTH get to me.  I’ve known for some time that I’d be cutting around now, so I figured it was OK to grab dessert items after meals….that I could ease up on the workouts a bit….that 2 days in a row of off days was ok (I usually only take one off day per 3-4 weeks)…well dammit, I just logged back on here for the first time in a few weeks, saw how everyone else is progressing, and its back on.  Too many videogames lately and my diet has sucked.  Starting today, I’m back in workout mode.  Wish me luck.

I was finally getting results, gained 4 lbs, and then literally overnight, I lost 3 lbs.  Sitting at 201 again, scratching my head, wondering why my metabolism has to be so effing wierd.  I chalk it up to the Venom Hyperdrive 3.0 I’ve been taking.  It definitely decreases my appetite, and I think it’s actually speeding up my metabolism.  I don’t want to stop taking it…it also acts as an energy supplement, and since I work night shift, it seriously helps me stay awake on shift.  Guess I’m just going to have to start eating heavy foods I’ve been avoiding for a long time….

cake…..pastas……pizza……chicken fingers…..

 sweet :p

I need suggestions on this.  I’ve got some dang love handles I’m trying to burn away, but I can’t stand being under 200 pounds.  Right now, I’m sitting at 201 and around a 14% BF, trying to decrease it to about 9%, but at the same time I want to hit 215.  It’s gonna be intense and long, and I don’t have a definite plan…who has suggestions?

I’ve decided that I can’t really go on a diet.  I’ve tried, trust me I’ve tried, but God gave me a LOT of love for food.  I can’t stop eating sometimes.  I could eat two large sandwiches, a banana and an apple, half a package of girl scout cookies (they are NOT in short supply here on deployment….) and still have room for more.  I don’t know how I metabolize it all…I have the diet of a 300 lb man, yet manage to stay around 200 lbs and look healthy…thank god for my fast metabolism.

 Sadly, though, after I joined the military, went into a Spec Ops career field and gained 25 pounds at tech school (mostly muscle, but the buffet chow hall didn’t help..) I gained love handles with it..

 So now I’ve decided, hey I’ve got time.  I want to be fit, but at the same time I want to gain some muscle.  But how to do this without dieting?  I figure I can make up for it by doing massive amounts of cardio workouts while still being able to eat what I want when I want.  I mean, seriously, with as much as I love food, my only other alternative is bulimia…

that was a joke, and probably in bad taste….sorry bulimics!

 so I’m trying a 2 a day workout routine.  During the day, I will do a solid hour of cardio.  On one day I will run about 8 miles on the treadmill, and every other day I will spend 1 hour on the stair step machine, climbing roughly 350 stories, and the other workout is an intense weightlifting routine to build strength and mass.  Only days off will be sundays cuz that is basketball night, and seriously, who wants to miss basketball night?

 So if this is a bad idea, someone let me know what the heck I can do, without having to cut back on meals, to get rid of these dang love handles, yet gain plenty of lean muscle mass.  Otherwise, I’m gonna do this workout every day for the next 5 1/2 months, effectively commiting slow suicide…woohoo.

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