dianNerd’s BodyBlog

I try hard to eat clean but temptation is all around me!  With my crazy school schedule it can get very hard to cook, and I’m surrounded by students eating deep fried and sugary foods all day.  I love healthy food, but I’m a sucker for salty french fries sometimes.  Josh won’t stop tempting me with crap either!  I just can’t have it in the house but I swear the man’s addicted to sugar!

I’m still wondering how I can include more protein and less carbs while living my on-the-go lifestyle without breaking the bank.  Protein is expensive!  This is the only way I’m going to lose more body fat percentage, but it’s hard to maintain. 

And this new workout routine is weird.  I admit I was overdoing it, but I now I feel like I’m just not doing enough to gain enough muscle and lose enough fat.  I’m determined to get down to at least 17% body fat by the end of the year, but so far my progress has been slower than I’d like.

I’m breaking up workouts into one day of 60 min’s cardio, one day lifting upper, middle, or lower body, and repeat, plus pole dancing on Sundays.  Hopefully this will give me more results…I assume it will since some cut people here on BB said I should break it up like this…

 Can’t wait to lose another percent BF…I’m taking the hyperdrive supp.’s when i have time to workout in the morning in hopes that it will help me reach my goal a little faster.

I keep gaining weight but my clothes are getting baggier…thought this was good, but now I’ve noticed some other ladies here on BB that lose a ton of weight even though they gained muscle…maybe that will come later for me?

I think I’m going to give The Cut Diet a shot.  I’ve been reading the book and scientifically it makes a lot of sense.  I think I’ll keep a photo journal and measure body parts to see how well it works.  I’ve got a such a small skeletal frame, but people wouldn’t know it to look at me.  My body fat is between 20-25% and I’m a size 3-5 right now, so I can only imagine that if I do get down to below 15% body fat on this diet that my size 0’s will fit again. 

Can’t wait to see my abs and glutes again!!!!

Alright, so this is day 2 of eating a sh** ton of cals to boost my BMR.  It’s amazing how small amounts of food fill me up so quickly.  I guess that’s what happens when you try to eat healthy portions after considering a celery stick a portion beforehand. 

So I haven’t gained any weight!!  YAY…and I feel super stuffed but not as sick as I did last night from eating.  So I think I might do this for one more day to ensure my BMR is out of starvation mode and get back to the 1100 cal per day thing. 

I also had someone recommend doing protein shakes as meal replacements for 2-3 out of my 5-6 meals.  DUH.  Why didn’t I think of that?  It will definitely make the transition easier.  I might actually do that tomorrow instead of trying to eat so much to ween myself back down.  I honestly don’t think my stomach will need much weening, consider how overlystuffed I feel now, but I never hurts to get more nonfat protein!

Calories/Food:

0/ diet sunkist

100/  fresh fruit cup

130/ wheat crackers

180/ peanut butter granola bar

120/ soy dippers

total so far:  530.  Jeezus.  I think I’ve had enough carbs for a week.

Alright…so apparently I’m not eating ENOUGH to lose weight…killing my metabolic fire, so to say.

With my workout routine I have to eat at least 1100 calories a day to keep the fat coming off.  Crazy.  I feel like I’m gorging myself on food to get to 1100 calories.  I’m sure cutting once or twice a week to 500 cals or less won’t hurt if I do 1100 calories all the other days.

So until I drop another pound, 1100 cals a day it is.  And then I’ll recalculate. 

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