Body Project

January 13, 2009 will be 1 year from my first picture I took while I was still near the beginning of my fat loss/transformation.  I seems to have gone by so fast, but I am happy with the progress thus far.  I am going into December and first several weeks of January in cutting mode.  Spent the first part of 2008 losing the weight and trying to gain muscle.  I never really set my sites on cutting or bulking along the way, I was just happy with the changes.  About 4 weeks ago I decided to start cutting again and am down about 8 pounds now, to just a tad under 200, and I have not been that light since 1999.  Suffice to say I am happy and am working towards 190, no less than 185 as my target weight.  No matter the BF % at that time, which i guess should be under 10%, that is as far as I am going.  Then comes the CELLMASS, and VOLUMAIZE back into my supplement regimen.  I will add a few carbs back in, but not a ton, I want to gain lean muscle, even if slower than true bulking.  So that it is for now.  A plan of action to allow me  to roll into the big 40 next August looking stoked and buff. 

So i am trying to cut and get my abs to show themselves!  So I was looking thru my Eat Clean Diet book by Tosca Reno, thank you to KLTexas for the rec on this book, it is awesome.  I found a turkey meatball recipe, and decided to change it to fit my taste.  So I decided on a hamburger, a healthy one that is easy to carry in a ziploc bag and eat on the run for mid am and mid pm snack.  I bought 3 lbs of LEAN, like 97/3 lean ground beef.  This went in a big mixing bowl with 1/2 cup of A1 New Orleans Cajun marinade, and 2 cups of tri bellpepper mix, pre cut from Publix, and around 6-8 TBSP of roasted flax seeds.  Mixed it all up and made 6 oz patties.  I then put them in the freezer to firm up before grilling.  When I grilled them, they were so lean, that they fell apart a little, so maybe next time I will put in some egg white and wheat germ as binders.  Either way, they tasted great.  The A1, the flax seeds, and the bell peppers give it a unique flavor.  Had a huge spinach salad to go with and yum.  Going to try another batch with the wheat germ and egg white to see if they hold better to the grill.  I don’t know the calorie count, but i know 6 ozs pre cooked is around 30+ grams protein, and there is fiber from the peppers and flax seeds, and some fat which i am not worried about as it was 97/3 lean beef, and i want my test levels to stay up while I am trying to cut.  Made around 12 burgers if i forgot to say.

How awesome can a smoothie be.  Try the recipe from BuckSpin for the Sweet potato pie smoothie.  I changed it to my taste, and OMGosh, best thing I ever tasted.  I mixed mine with 1/2 a tater overcooked, 2 scoops Syntha-6 Vanilla Ice cream, 10 G Glutamine, 4 G Arginine, splash of vanilla, pich of cinnamon and nutmeg, 12 ozs skim milk, then blend on puree.  Best post w/o shake I have ever had.  Just finished legs and drank that, and wow!!  Go check out his blog for original recipe.

http://blog.bodybuilding.com/BuckSpin/2008/09/15/sweet-potato-pie-smoothie-pwo-shake/

How awesome can a smoothie be.  Try the recipe from BuckSpin for the Sweet potato pie smoothie.  I changed it to my taste, and OMGosh, best thing I ever tasted.  I mixed mine with 1/2 a tater overcooked, 2 scoops Syntha-6 Vanilla Ice cream, 10 G Glutamine, 4 G Arginine, splash of vanilla, pich of cinnamon and nutmeg, 12 ozs skim milk, then blend on puree.  Best post w/o shake I have ever had.  Just finished legs and drank that, and wow!!  Go check out his blog for original recipe.

http://blog.bodybuilding.com/BuckSpin/2008/09/15/sweet-potato-pie-smoothie-pwo-shake/

How awesome can a smoothie be.  Try the recipe from BuckSpin for the Sweet potato pie smoothie.  I changed it to my taste, and OMGosh, best thing I ever tasted.  I mixed mine with 1/2 a tater overcooked, 2 scoops Syntha-6 Vanilla Ice cream, 10 G Glutamine, 4 G Arginine, splash of vanilla, pich of cinnamon and nutmeg, 12 ozs skim milk, then blend on puree.  Best post w/o shake I have ever had.  Just finished legs and drank that, and wow!!  Go check out his blog for original recipe.

http://blog.bodybuilding.com/BuckSpin/2008/09/15/sweet-potato-pie-smoothie-pwo-shake/