mquang’s BodyBlog

I did managed to avoid the office party two days ago.  Instead, I was eating the usual brown rice, and chicken breast.  I’ve been eating scramble eggs with whole grain bagel in the morning.  But I noticed, I’ve been getting a bit tired lately, and I’ve decided to increase my food intake again.  Hopefully, I will gain more strength, and build a stronger body.   Also, I’ve been eating a lot of nuts (cranberries, almonds, and cashews), and I eat one yogurt a day.  I have not introduce any things new in my meals, just the basic, brown rice, chicken breast, salad, eggs, varsities of nuts, beefs, turkey, bananas, tuna, tofu, tomatoes, baby shrimps…I eat them plain, excepts I do sometime use seasoning on chicken breast, turkey and beefs.

As for training, I just started doing Dead lift, I was introduced to it last week.  Going to start doing more to get the form correct.
Looking forward to celebrate the new year 2009, with a fit body =) WHOOOoooOOOO

This morning, I was searching for clothes to wear to work, and I couldn’t find anything that would fit me.  Most of my old clothes are sizes from Medium to Large, and now size Small fit me better.  Tonight, I am going to search through all my clothing containers, and donate all my old clothes.  Why hanging on to it?  I did put on an old sweater and realized how big I used to be.  I ended up wearing a new polo, size Small, and it fit perfectly.  I feel good.  I see no beer belly.  I walked on the street to work and feel a bit proud.

I am going clubbing this Saturday, I am not a fan, but my date wants to go.  I rather be in the gym on my Saturday’s night with my Ipod and I rather be in the bookstore on Saturday’s night.
Yesterday, I’ve an opportunity to try the new Controlled labs product, WhiteFlood Tablets.  I feel a bit disappointed of the product, because I did not achieve the same result with the powder version.  I felt exhausted, tired, not pumped or energized.  The pills size was about the size of GNC multivitamins, and I’ve to swallow 8 of them.  The power version is much better, I can just drink it down.  Going to give the tablets version another try before I shipped it back.

Yesterday, I received a private msg on the facebook from a friend, he wants to know the secret to my transformation.  He mentioned he been training extremely hard at the gym, but see absolutely no progress.  Could it be because of his style of eating?  Another friend of mine was telling me his stomach is getting huge, but he have been doing crunches almost daily, training abs daily.  I asked him, what is his meals like? he said "as long as I workout, I can eat anything I want".  Yike!  Lately, I started to notice a lot of gym goers do extremely heavy weight, crazy, difficult exercises and crunches till they are blue in the face, but zero progress.   Ouch! That would suck for working extremely hard, spending time and money at the gym, and not seeing progress.  It could be fixed by changing our eating style and choosing plain foods?
I feel I am going insane this month with all these parties, I try to eat healthy almost every days, and when at party, I tried to stay away from certain foods, and pick on the foods that as plain as possible. blah!   I opened my fridge and see, a container of boiled chicken breast, a container of brown rice, and veggies, eggs, I just want to puke.  Some days, I do some salmons, and beef just to change it up a bit.   I got to make these small sacrifices, for a summer body.  Else, it would be more painful in the summer.  Else, I feel like $hit.  Else, my clothes won’t fit. Else, I will not be able to wear those muscle t-shirt.  I would HATE wearing clothes and see a beer belly on me…NASTY!!!!!!!! HATE IT  I don’t want to go back to the old Q.
Counting down to the month of January when all these crazy holidays and parties are over with.
Almost forgot, my aunt is modeling my eating style, she went out and bought oatmeals =) She never eat oatmeal in her life.  Also, this week alone, four of my friends, college friends, well, five if I do count my date, all saying I look in shape…YAY!!!!!!!

Today, I hear myself complaining and cursing the cold weather, "It’s cold, and I don’t feel like going to the gym.", and "It’s winter, we all cover up, who is going to see that I am getting fat?"  It’s silly, I am complaining about the weather, but there is nothing that I can do about it.  But for the fact of taking progress pictures, then I must continue to train and eat right, else, picture will show it.  I have to think Summer, and ignore the fact that we are in Winter.  I am training to look great and feel great for the summer.

I’ve been going out and eating out a bit lately, my date and I both want to be in shape, but we both have different definition of being in shape.   I want to continue to push my limit strengthening my training and eat healthy all the time, while, "being fit" is acceptable for my date.   I’ve been doing cardio after weight training to avoid feeling guilty after "indulging" myself and it was not fun at all.   I need to come up with a explanation to express myself, maybe we should try to do things different than other couple do.  Instead of trying out new restaurants, we can eat at home, then catch a movie or walk in the malls, or making out and burn calories (joking).

My short-term goal is to stay focus, strengthen my mind, body throughout these last few days of December 2008.  I want to take great progress pictures for bb.com and WOW my date =)  I want to show my date that by changing your eating habit, and continue to train create a stronger, fitter body.  I am one day closer to achieving the body that I deserve.

It was not until yesterday, that I was able to return to my fitness goal, choosing healthy foods to consume rather then stuffing myself with left over treats from both Thanksgiving and my birthday.  One of my friends, who I have not seen for awhile, was comment on the way I look during a Thanksgiving dinner, and it was nice to receive compliment.  My short term goal is to stay focus on my fitness goal, a combination of healthy eating, and exercises throughout December and carry it through January.   Now is the time for me to work on the beach body.  I need to "wow" my special someone (K) =p
I’ve decided to continue using Controlled labs products, and just ordered two more Pre-out supplement (Whiteflood) from them.  One is the tablet form, and the other is powder.  Yesterday, a friend asked that I picked up some supplements for him, last time I got him multivitamins, and fish oil.  Although, he said he maintained the same weight, the fact is he looks fat, he workouts (mostly cardio) he claims, but he still eating traditional foods.  It sucks, to spend a lot of time in the gym, and not producing result.  I would hate that, I rather just suck it up and eat plain foods then knowing I have wasted all my time and money. Money for gym membership, money for trainer, money for supplement, and all those time wasted, money can be earned back, but time one it is gone, it’s gone.
My special someone is working for a restaurant, and I have to say "No" a lot to unhealthy foods.  blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I’m doing this for both of us honey =p  Perhaps, the end of December I can take some pictures…it’s time to look good =p