engineer88’s BodyBlog

Just thought I would share what I am currently taking.  It is nothing fancy and I am taking minimum levels cause I am poor.  =P

Day:
ACE’s - Antioxidant(1cap)
Multivitamin - Necessary nutrients(2tabs)
Glutamine - Anti-catabolism and protein synthesis(2caps)
BCAA’s - Anti-catabolism and cell reproduction(2caps)
Arginine - Anti-catabolism and protein synthesis(1cap)

Night:
ACE’s - Antioxidant(1cap)
Multivitamin - Necessary nutrients(2tabs)
Glutamine - Anti-catabolism and protein synthesis(2caps)
BCAA’s - Anti-catabolism and cell reproduction(2caps)
Gabba - Sleep aid(1tab)

For instance some new supplement, or a new piece of equipment at the gym, finding a protein powder or protein bar that you really like.  Well, I was all excited because I got myself an EZ curl bar.  Just in time for arms night!  I had a heckuva good workout with it too.  Managed to use my new toy for a biceps and a triceps movement even.  It is really cool!

Anyhow I am glad I split my workout back up to 5 days again.  It just gives me a lot better time to zero in on certain muscle groups, especially the ones that need some extra attention.  Now I am off to bed for a full 6 hours of sleep.  Ia m gonna need it!  =)

Ok, for some of you, you do these every day like nothing and you are probably laughing at me.  But for me, it seems like 1 or 2 are always falling through the cracks.  Either I don’t sleep enough, or don’t have time to lift or do cardio.  It drives me nuts.  If I was hitting it every day, I would be doing so much better.  So I wrote them down and memorized them and I am trying to think about them every morning when I wake up.

1.  Get 6-8 hours of sleep a night.
2.  Do not drink a single soda.
3.  Drink 1.5 gallons of water a day.
4.  Stretch and do light cardio every day.
5.  Lift Weights 5 times a week.
See how pathetic I am?  I can’t get 5 things right every day, LOL!!  Oh well, I will get better, I must.  =P

My wife and daughter fly out Wednesday and I have everything in place.  I am aiming mostly for cutting so I have my calories and my meals planned out.  I am hoping to drop at least ten pounds by the time they get back.  I have been dialing in the diet a bit tighter and with the exception of a week or two here and there I have been getting my lifting in pretty regularly.  Now I have just started to add some cardio.  I have purposefully not weighed in two days.  I am not gonna weigh until Wednesday when I start my program.

One crazy thing is I have went from 2-3 meals a day max to now eating literally 6-8 times a day.  Sometimes it is just a a lowfat cheese stick, an apple, orange or some other fruit, handful of nuts or sunflower seeds (unsalted),  heck sometimes I just eat 3-4 peices of coldcuts (none of the ‘honey roasted’ variety), or if at home I will cook some meat or oatmeal, etc.

It has been hard to make myself eat so often and to eat less per meal at lunch and dinner (my former two meals a day), but I am starting to get the hang of it and I feel a lot less weighed down during the day.  I am hoping the metabolism will speed up and my insulin level will…well level out.  I was getting the leathery back of the neck, which is a sign of insulinemia or insulin resistance, one or the other,  I forget which.  Would figure my fat arse would give myself AOD with all those sugary sodas.  But after only having 3-20 oz. sodas in 2 and a half weeks, the back of my neck is clearing up, it is crazy how resilient  the body is.

Now I am buying no sugar added fruit juices only for my daughter and myself (although I hardly ever drink any myself), everything is no preservatives added and low sodium.  I am not all over the low fat, because those are often packed with HFCS and salt to make up for lack of taste and I am not a fan of man messing with how the Good Lord made it for us.  If it is that bad for ya (whatever it is), just leave it out of your diet.

Anyhow, hopefully it goes well!  I am looking forward to being a little lighter.  =)

All my numbers look so small, because I do dumbbells on almost everything but bent over rows and I am just now starting to bench with the bar.  Plus my deadlift numbers are for stiff legged only.  I am using the calculator on everything, I never go for maxes so I am not sure how accurate it is.  Oh well, I guess it is not really important.  =P

The big thing is to keep on moving back up on the poundages to my original weights and that I am getting stronger and not fatter.  =)