Being as focused in the kitchen as you are at the squat rack
After looking at and comparing my most recent pics to those of a couple of months ago, I made some changes this past week in the diet. It was a good wake up call to realize that while I may have been feeling stronger and leaner and everybody keeps telling me I am looking great, the pictures … they don’t lie, eh? I am going to start taking pics monthly instead of every other month. These little reality checks are quite healthy.
Changes made: I have the evening meal firmly in view, and it ain’t much: a bowl of my protein powder pudding - about a half cup of non-fat yogurt and a scoop of protein power with a couple grams of glutimine as a garnish. I also reduced the size of a couple of other meals during the day [I have 6-7 small meals over the course of a day] and after a week another 4 lbs are gone and I comfortably moved the belt in another notch. Given the weight that I have taken off to date, I am beginning to think that single digit body fat levels are not an unrealistic goal — obviously got a ways to go — but I can actually see it on the horizon now as I understand more about how my body responds to what I eat. It is amazing to me to realize how much of this is about diet … you honestly have to be as deliberate and focused in the kitchen as you are at the squat rack.
This week’s workouts should be cool. Over the last several weeks I have been creating the workouts for the workout partner and I but this week he is going to take the reins. I’ll keep you posted on how that goes. We are going to do a bit of trading back and forth that way. I put together the workout one week, he does it the next. Cool.
August 19, 2007 at 5:29 am
Sweet! Diet is always the kicker, and probably the most difficult part of the whole spectrum. Congrats on tightening up the belt! Soon enough it’ll be a whole new wardrobe!