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I will have a catchup blog in the near future. Sorry for being MIA. I am still taking my daily pictures tho!

Day 17

Food:

wheat bagel
egg cheese turkey sausage


chicken
steamed fish
broccoli
rice noodles


Subway roast beef on wheat


Cashews and rasins




Workout:
LEGS


COMMENTS:

Great leg workout.

Day 11

Food


turkey egg cheese on wheat



Muscle milk



Pad thai and steak(small portion from left over work party)



2 glasses of wine



cheese burger on wheat bun




workout:

Upper body pull



comments:

Not the greatest day of eating!

Day 9

Food:


Oatmeal
egg whites
spinanch


Ham and cheese sandwhich on HOMEMADE WHEAT BREAD(THANKS WIFE)


CASHEWS RASINS SNACK


BROWN RICE AND BEAN CHILLI



WORKOUT:

20min treadmill, intensity levels




Comments:

6am wake up is the new thing. With busy life events, its easy now to get up early and knock out workout ... gives me energy through the day, and great sleep at night....

Day 8

Food:

Egg whites
Spinach
Homemade wheat toast with preserves


Pear salad with walnuts


subway Footlong meatball with cheese on wheat


brown rice beans and veggies




Workout:

Upper body Push workout at 6am


Comments:
After one day of complete rest and eating unhealthy, Back on track to start week 2.
On my day off I enjoyed Bacon, Ice cream, french fries, and pancakes.

Day 6

Food:

OATMEAL with rasins and banana and protein powder


Salmon and veggies


chicken and brown rice


Cashews and rasins





Workout:

HIIT
and
http://www.mystrengthforlife.com/dl/app_5_sat.pdf



Comments:

I skipped a day of logging due to The Warriors Cavs game I went to... Lebron took over, and couldn't be stopped. He hit his FIRST buzzer beater to win the game....

Day Four

Food:

egg turkey cheese on wheat toast

wheat tortilla burrito with brown rice steak and black beans cheese

Salmon brown rice and peas


Workout:

Upper body Pull workout.



Comments:

Memory fails me a bit, writing this a day later!

Day Three

Food:


Slice of whole wheat chicken pizza(for breakfast :)

Salad - mixed greens pears, walnuts, rasins, goat cheese

Peanut butter, banana, apples, cranberry on whole wheat

2 Slice of whole wheat chicken pizza

bowl of cabbage


Workout:

Lower body workout
http://www.mystrengthforlife.com/dl/app_5_wed.pdf


40 mins of Coed BBALL(NO SUBS)


Comments:

I just want to say the pizza was leftovers. Technically all the ingredients are in the program, but I normally wouldn't go that route if it was already in the fridge! My workout definitely burned alot of calories, as I said before I am not watching calories. Eating as much as I want, but concentrating on my food selections fitting the guidelines!

Day TWO - Obama day

FOOD:

OATMEAL
Chicken curry with spinach and brown rice
Cashews for snack
whole wheat pizza from zachary's with chicken and spinach


Workout:
20 min intensity intervals on stationary bike


Comments:

OBAMA!

Day ONE

FOOD:

EGGS
OATMEAL RASINS
SUBWAY FOOTLOONG TURKEY AND CHEESE AND SPINANCH
CASHEWS
NAKED JUICE
PROTEIN SHAKE


WORKOUT:
UPPER BODY PUSH DAY
http://www.mystrengthforlife.com/dl/app_5_mon.pdf



COMMENTS:
TODAY WAS A VERY BUSY DAY. I ATE A GOOD BREAKFAST. LUNCH WAS OK, THEN THE REST OF THE DAY I JUST KINDA SNACKED AND THEN HAD A NICE WORKOUT, FOLLOWED BY A BIG PROTEIN SHAKE.

I HAVE TO EAT MUCH MORE THAN THIS. REMEMBER THE PURPOSE FOR THIS IS NOT TO CUT CALORIES, I ACTUALLY DON'T CARE HOW MANY CALORIES, ITS JUST THE QUALITY OF CALORIES AS WELL AS THE WORKOUTS THAT I AM BEING CONSISTENT WITH!

DAY 1 OF 84 COMPLETE

Body for life to Strength For Life

In 2005 I weighed in at a whopping 303 lbs. I tried diet after diet, which is cliche, but the reason I believe it is cliche is because people generally don't learn WHY they are doing something. Body for life taught me many things, one being belief comes from understanding. I lost over 50lbs in 3 months because my belief was strong and grew more as I continued the process and the reading.

It takes discipline in the beginning but then with the physical transformation the mental transforms as well. You no longer see it as a task, but as a want to eat well and train, notice I didn't say exercise.

For example, the mindset of a vegetarian is they only eat vegetables because.... you fill the blank. It doesn't matter why, but they do it, because they want, I think they are crazy because ribs, chicken and beef are amazing too me. so for me to be a vegetarian for just 3 days, that would take some major discipline.

If someone offered to pay me 50,000 dollars not to eat meat for 3 days, I would be 50k richer, would I call that discipline? No, the end was far greater than the task, that it actually turned into a want for me to not eat meat for 3 days.

Everyone has different motivations, for me it was I missed playing basketball, and I couldn't run up and down the court at that weight.

So 2005 I got as low as 240, 2006 as low as 225, for my wedding i was 223 June 2007. December 2007 I reach 236 after the holiday season. At this point I said lets go to 203lbs, making my lost 100lbs. I did that in 3 months, as planned.

I understand eating, and training to the point I know how much to eat and what weight that would make me over time. It only takes a few articles or on book such as body for life to learn this useful equation.

Four years later, from 303 lbs, I am 217lbs after the holidays. I purposely didn't work out and purposely enjoyed all the fatty and unhealthy foods I could find during the month of December. I probably had 80 cookies in this time period. Truly shocked my body for a month.

MY reason for doing this was to simply relax after a long year, and build the motivation it would take to hit the new year with a purpose. Also in New Jersey/Philly area it is easy to eat UNHEALTHY, in Cali it is easy to eat HEALTHY. Actually eating unhealthy in Cali is like eating healthy in New jersey. Thats another blog that I may never get around to writing.

I am not afraid to say, Body for Life has changed my life, and my perspective on fitness and nutrition. Walking through borders where I usually browse, and then go to amazon and purchase my books, I came across Strength for life. I'm thinking ok lets see what this knockoff on body for life has to offer. As I read, I see it is no knockoff, it is its on quality teaching on training and nutrition, written by Bill Phillips brother, Shawn Phillips.

Over the next 3 months I will be blogging daily-ish on my progress thru, 12 day base camp, into the 12 week challenge.... Robocop training.