Oof…I just noticed that I have two invitations available for Muscletank.net accounts.

If you are interested in joining the MT community, please contact me.

I’m on day four of this 12 week cycle today, and I am already feeling and seeing some changes. It’s true that going back to any regular workout schedule and adhering to any reasonable diet at a caloric deficit after two months of only putting in 50% effort would have noticeable effects on my body at this point, but psychologically it is always motivating to have my deltoids show up again after just half a week of consistent effort, hah!

I really enjoy my nutrition plan at the moment. It’s a clean diet with a list of authorized foods that takes into account my likes, dislikes, and lactose-intolerance issue. Fortunately for me (and probably one of the biggest factors in my ability to keep at this fitness stuff in the long term), I like most healthy foods. Check out the Body-for-Life list of authorized foods sometime. The only foods I do NOT like from that list are cottage cheese (:yuck:) and regular low-fat cheese (:crazy:).

I actually think that my meal plan looks like a modified version of what I listed on my client profile questionnaire as a typical day’s worth of meals. It’s cleaner, and the macros are shifted around a bit, but it isn’t so much of a departure from my regular BFL-style meals that I’ve had any issues sticking to it. I literally count the minutes until meal 4 after I’ve had my lunch; I like meal 4 that much. :whistle:

As for the workouts, they have been challenging. I am sore in a number of key muscle groups in my upper body from just two days of following the routines, which is always a nice feeling. The only negative is that they take a bit longer to complete than my SGX routines, so I’ve had to re-do my morning schedule a bit. Bedtime will now be 11 pm at the latest, and my butt will be in the gym by 7 AM every day.

Kim told me that my current program was something of a baseline. How I do on it over the next two weeks before I send him updated stats and photos will determine what the next set of customized nutrition and workout guidelines (including amount of cardio) will entail.

As I really do not want to send in bad pics and have some of the (clean) goodies in my current meal plan taken away (I remember Amyella’s posts about this from last year), I am going to be a complete stickler about following the program, even if I have to pass up Chinese sausage and rice (from Mom and Dad), Donato’s pizza (ordered by Chris), and homemade white chocolate cranberry oatmeal cookies (at my friend Joel’s birthday party) as I did yesterday.

I just have to remind myself that all of those foods will still be there in 11.5 weeks if I still want them then. If I indulge now however, what *won’t* be there in 11.5 weeks is the physique I’m shooting for with this program.

2/10/06 and 2/11/06 Reports
(*Diet and workout details omitted by agreement with trainer)
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Nutrition:

2/10
Meals - On plan
Water - 16 cups

2/11
Meals - On plan
Water - 10 cups

Regular (Non-Plan) Daily Supplements - multivitamin with iron, calcium 600 + D

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Workout:

2/10
Weights - Missed due to time constraints; make up session on Saturday
Cardio - Done

2/11
Weights - Done (Friday’s scheduled workout)
Cardio - Done (Thursday make up)

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The Awful Truth:
1. Nothing!

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Brownie Points:
1. Went grocery shopping again.
2. Cooked chicken.
3. Planted 80% of my veggie patch.
4. Didn’t nibble on any unauthorized foods from Mom’s house, Chris’s pizza, or Joel’s birthday party on Saturday.

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Short-term Goals:
1. Work on paper doll sketches.
2. Fix remaining issues with Joomla migration at Pinkdumbbells.com.
3. Locate new Events module for PDB.
4. Upgrade Community Builder component at PDB.
5. Set up archived version of The Training Journal forum at PDB from Hershey Girl’s backup.
6. Upgrade Wordpress to 2.0.
7. Finish veggie planting and put in flowers.