tone4now’s BodyBlog

My experience in the little over a year I’ve been working out, is the battle is truely won in the kitchen. Complete body transformation requires complete dedication to eating healthy. For me, getting to the gym 5-7 times a week is easy. The difficult part is eating clean 5-6 times a day EVERYDAY. The payoff, however, is huge and life-changing. My entire world has changed since I got fit. In May of 2007 I weighed 167 pounds and was desperately out of shape from a diet of Philly Cheesesteaks, Pizza, and cigarettes. I hadn’t worked out since High School! Not sure what my turning point was but I all of a sudden had the urge to get physically fit. After a month of fat-shedding cardio, I started doing full-body work outs (upper body one day/lower body the next) on the weight machines. Eventually I switched to muscle-isolation workouts (triceps/chest, biceps/back, neck/shoulders) with free-weights. All this has been good for building muscle, but getting tight ab’s is a war won almost 100% in the kitchen. A lot of my diet is common sense. Some of it comes from people, like xNickEdgex, on here. No fried foods. No fast food. No sweets. No overly processed food. Generally speaking my diet consists of McCann’s 100% whole grain Oatmeal (every single day without fail), egg whites, ezekial bread, boneless skinless chicken breast, Chilean Sea Bass, salmon, broccolli, spinach, green beans, cucumbers, banana’s, apples, all types of berries, light tuna in water straight out of the can, skim milk, Kashi heart to heart, almonds, cashews, vegan unprocessed Larabar’s, etc. Of course I also take loads of whey protein and have atleast one protein shake every day. This diet has helped me maintain an extremely low body fat%. This dedication has transformed me physically AND mentally. I percieve the world differently today. I have never felt so good.