>>SANCTUARY<<

After couple of days into program I have noticed several things.

First of all I feel better overall. This is because I am highly motivated to do this and I found this goal keeping system on bodyspace.com is working for me right now.

I have went from eating two (on better days three) meals per day, and overeating on each, to five smaller ones distributed throughout the day and discovering some very important benefits already. I am able to get up half an hour earlier without any problem. There is no feeling of exhaustion each morning, I feel energized and ready for my day. I noticed I do not have to sit/lie down after my meal with big pressure in my belly. There is also no need to unbutton my pants and I can fall a sleep even easier now. I never actually had problems sleeping, except for being bloated and high stomach acid.

For now I have no such troubles and I prefer it that way. I feel I am on the right track and I will succeed!

Day four.

Today is Thursday, beginning of the fourth day of my journey. I had a bad day yesterday, I missed my workout, and had to eat more food than I planned. You are probably asking your self, why I had to do it? Well it was a family dinner at my godfather house, and it was the day of their "slava". This is the old Serbian custom, where we celebrate our patron saint, and as it goes a lot of food is prepared and eaten.

Since I was at the dinner I could not workout, so that is missed, but I guess I will have to make up for it in next three days.

but I must admit, I managed to withhold my self from gorging on food and more importantly cake. Usually I have troubles standing up from the chair when I finish, but this time I ate only that much to go through the course. This way I am not offending my family and also keeping my self from overeating.

There is always this great pressure of society which leads you to pitfalls, most of the time. Some of it is done with good intentions in mind, and some out of pure ignorance. Sometimes you just have to make compromises.

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Last night I made my self a breakfast for today. I cooked some rice and mixed it all with canned tuna, and it was not the best breakfast you can have in the six in the morning. I will definitely have to think of something else to make it better.

Damn, I could never believe I could get so sore from push-ups and squats with nothing but my body weight. I could squat 180 kg in my better days, and after doing one set of squats for 30 rep’s I have problems with getting out from bed.

Only now I see how bad my physical condition is right now. But it felt great and two days later I still feel the soreness in my legs, backs and pecks. For now I will do 4 workouts per week and work my way up gradually, I am in no hurry and intend to do this organized as much as possible.

I never ate much junk food, and I always tried to eat as healthy as possible. My biggest problem are sweets. I just take all the sugar from my diet and I start loosing fat.

This time I plan on changing that with a bit more strict diet and feeding plan.

I will go with five meals a day, some three hours between each meal. I made a list of foods, healthy foods and I like it so far. It is nothing to complicated, just good food and no sweets at all. I also made decision to stop consuming carbonated drinks and juices.

My feeding day goes like this:

I get up 06:00 in the morning, have a light breakfast, usually cereals, rice, milk, yogurt and maybe some fruit.

Somewhere around 10:00 AM eat in my company restaurant, and this is my biggest meal of the day, here I eat what ever is on the menu, but I watch not to over do it.

03:30 PM is time for lunch and some more solid food. Fish, red meat, chicken breast, cooked or grilled, salad and fruit and lots of watter.

06:00 is time for another meal, usually just a fruit

08:30 is time for dinner, cereals, white meat, milk and salad all come in consideration.

These are the base choices for me, bud I do get some diversity in food choice, and I will not do cheat days for the first four weeks.

OK, I started on Monday with my 16 week journey. My workouts are planed for the first phase for next two weeks.

I will workout at home and hopefully it will lead me to a steady working out in the gym.

Why am I starting like this? Why I just do not pay for my gum membership and start working out like in the old days? It’s quite simple. If I manage to workout in my room for four weeks, and stay motivated all that time, I will also manage to stay motivated in the gym. There is also the question of adaptation period. By working out at home, I have only dumbells and the rest of the exercises will be done with my body weight only!

This is very important for several factors. First of all, it is good adaptation workout to get your body to get used on exercising on a regular basis. While I could just jump into gym and start lifting weights and working out hard core, but that is exactly what I’ve done before. Secondly, I have to do more repetitions and this way I will hit my muscles in a whole different way. Hitting those red muscle fibers with blood will give a different feeling to my muscles and hopefully I will break some routine I am in for years.

Anyway I have one, more important thing to deal with, and it is my mind set. You see, I was always "bigger is better" type of person. I never actually made it this way, but I still keep at it, and I know it is time for me to change it now. So by working out in this (simple) way I plan on changing the way I think training should be done. Some people think this is not important but I think it gets into you and soon you believe you are the only one who knows the right thing to do.

Workout No1!

Day Number One, numero uno I finished 7 out of 10 exercises on the first day. Push-ups, squats, sit-ups, crunches, pull-ups with 30 repetitions per exercise. 3 sets for 10 repetitions and I was exhausted.

This is where I start.

I feel motivated, but I fealt like that before too. I start with something and than I quit after a while. What I figured out is I lack consistency and organization. I have good knowledge about what I doo, but I lack these two factors. It is as if I forget what I do here and now.

This time I made a difference. I started this bodyspace stuff, and this bodyblog journal to keep me organized.

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