Link to my Workouts

12/29

Alright, again, about the last week the diet has looked pretty bad... I'm straightening out though. My schedule/routine has been completely blown up by this storm we had this last weekend and the city still hasn't gotten it all fixed yet.. Today was much more normal, trains were fine and I was at work on time! Last night got in a really good chest workout, have an off night tonight so I plan on resting up..

6:30am: Shake

9:00am: Subway BMT (Needed the extra calories)

12:00pm: Turkey, lettuce, tomato, honey mustard on whole wheat

12/28

Wow, not sure what to say about today so far... Left for work at 6:45am and didn't get here until 12:00pm!!!! WHAT?!?! It's supposed to take me 45 minutes!!!! This blizzard just ruined everything.. Quick breakdown on the events:

7:00am: LIRR train from Syosset to Hicksville (PACKED!) then stopped at Carle Place to pick up more, then to Mineola where all hell broke loose. I'm talking about grown ass adults pushing and shoving each other into the train, yelling and throwing temper tantrums. Anyone who knows me knows I can't handle that shit, let alone handling it while my ribs are being broken. So I get off at Mineola, say what's up to NJ Burkett and wait for the next train.

8:00am: Next train comes into Mineola. PACKED. No one can get on.

8:30am: Next scheduled train. 35 minutes late.

9:15am: Train, packed. Same old. Can't get on.

10:00am: Go back to Syosset, get the beast Wrangler, driving in.

10:30am: Sitting at Jamaica Ave in East New York, 15 minutes from work on a normal day. Not on the Apocalypse, though. No exaggerating here, this was hell on earth. CARS, TRUCKS, BUSES abandoned in the middle of pretty much every road. NOTHING WAS PLOWED! Cars that were left in the middle of Pitkin Ave. in Brownsville - don't bother coming to dig them out. They were destroyed and set on fire. Seriously.

12:00pm: Get to work. So what should have been a 15 minute drive from that spot, took an hour and a half. 4 and a half hours late for work. Sick.

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6:00am: Shake

In between: Hell

12:00pm: Everything bagel, cream cheese

3:00pm: Cuts

6:00pm: Filet

8:00pm: Gym

10:00pm: Chipotle

12/27

Was supposed to be here at 7:45 but got here at 10:30, ended up sleeping a little later and having breakfast so it wasn't bad.

8:30am: Everything bagel, cream cheese and hot chocolate.

12:00pm: Subway cheesesteak on whole wheat with banana peppers, jalapeno's, green peppers, pickles and lettuce with southwest sauce.

6:00pm: Filet Mignon

7:30pm: GYM

10:00pm: Wings, 2 beers

11:00pm: Shake

Sure, not healthy at all today, but I'm chalking it up to a holiday hangover..

Weekend Recap

Happy Birthday to my Grandma who turns 80 today..

No idea what I consumed this weekend.. Had a real good lift Friday morning on Christmas Eve, Thursday was a half day at work, also a big squat night at the gym. The nights this weekend were pretty much filled with beers - no shots were taken and no real garbage food was consumed.. Yesterday since the Giants looked like pure garbage, that's what I ate like. But it was worth it, mom made chicken parm, had Dustin and Craig over so we just killed it. So good.

Storm of the century came through and dumped about 93 feet of snow in the metropolitan area. The LIRR suspended all trains so I had to drive the beast Jeep in. Thing killed it, I was here in 45 minutes. Saw one guy fly past me on the LIE and once he got about 1/4 mile up in front of me he spun out and I started laughing. He came about a foot from getting smashed up by the car behind him which would've been perfect.

Got off the BQE and turned onto Flatbush, could see my building and all of a sudden came to a dead stop.. SUV 3 cars ahead of me runs out of gas. Like come on, we serious? How can you be that unprepared? Once he moved, 15 minutes later, cop car in front of me gets stuck. An FDNY Fire Marshall came out so I pulled over and tried to help out, we pushed all we could but the guy buried it so they called a tow truck and I bizounced to work.

Minus those couple of road bumps it wasn't all that bad getting to work. The roads were pretty terrible though, considering the bulk of the snow came yesterday and last night, you'd think the plows would've done some sort of work for the morning commute, but nope.

12/22

I acknowledge the last couple days haven't exactly been strictly healthy, so what? Who's reading this anyway? I can go to McDonalds for 2 straight weeks and no one would know about it. So go fuck yourself.

6:00am: GH Stack

6:15am: Shake

9:00am: Cuts

9:15am: Turkey, egg whites, cheese, hot sauce on whole wheat.

9:55am: Pak

12/21

6:15am: Everything bagel, cream cheese

9:15am: Subway breakfast BMT 6" flatbread

12:00pm: Chicken Souvlaki w/ hot sauce and white sauce, lettuce, tomato and onion

6:00pm: Slice of grandma's meatloaf, couple pieces of turkey (and two pieces of bacon, damn)

8:30pm: GYM

10:00pm: Shake

10:45pm: UniSyn, oats, PB, glutamine blended

12/20

Obviously, I needed a couple of days to recover from that absolute steaming pile of shit 4th quarter the Giants put together Sunday.... So I'll try and remember what I did the last couple of days..

Tried this Subway breakfast everyone is babbling about, was not bad at all....

6:15am: Everything bagel with cream cheese

9:15am: Breakfast BMT 6" flatbread

12:00pm: Subway Chipotle Steak and Cheese on whole wheat

Damn, after lunch can't remember what I had.. If anything..

8:00pm: Gym

10:00pm: Shake

Weekend Recap

Complete show. Didn't want to do anything, so what do you think happened? Out until about 4am Friday night. Had the office holiday party then went out with some of the guys from work to try and get to know them then met up with Jimmy and Max for Max's birthday. Slept on Jimmy's couch until 9am and went home. Took a nap and sat on my ass all day. Wanted to get a lot done, ended up only getting my haircut. Gross disappointment with my productivity level Saturday. Was going to a Christmas party Saturday night that I thought was around the corner from my house until about 13 minutes before I left for it. Turns out it was in the most inaccessible area of all time according to the LIRR which would take an hour and a half with two (TWO!) transfers to get to Bayside. Driving it took us less than a half hour. I don't know. Stayed at this party with Craig for a couple hours before taking the train into the city. Didn't spend much but was out for a while, another late night on a couch slept from about 5am-8am. Solid night of sleep. Upon waking, Craig picked me up from the train around 11, we went to Chipotle (Had to add this because this was probably the highlight of my weekend).

I got home, showered and got dressed in ultimate fan gear for my favorite team ever for what was easily the biggest most important game of the season and in my opinion, recent memory. Me Coop and Craig went to Millers to be around more fans so when we drop a 31-10 lead on the Eagles we can go batshit crazy and claim the NFC East crown! So that's exactly what we did. Only none of us got the memo that an NFL team playing for the division title against a hated rival at home with the #2 ranked defense on the planet could possibly give up 28 points in 7 minutes and 30 seconds and tear the living beating heart out of my chest and jump off the top rope and body slam the shit out of it. I'm talking about the Yankees being up 3 games to 0 in the ALCS in 2004 against the Goddamn Red Sox wasn't even close to the amount of anger, helplessness and disappointment I felt last night. When their punt returner (I refuse to acknowledge he exists, just like Matt Dodge did) took his first 2 steps, that was game. The two witnesses at my table knew it was coming when I screamed out DID HE PUNT IT RIGHT AT HIM TELL ME HE DIDN'T KICK IT RIGHT AT HIM!!!! By the time I got that all out, he was about 35 yards down field with no one around him. There was nothing I could do. I'm almost happy I was in a public place, because if I was home watching that by myself I would no longer have a functioning 46" HDTV in my room. It'd just be a giant paperweight. Safe to say the weekend ended absolutely terribly, and on top of that the Jets pull another miracle out of their ass win and all of a sudden Jets fans exist in NY again. It's like they took a convenient 2 week vacation and all came back Sunday night around 8pm right in time for the work week. Perfect. Giants with their worst defeat in their 85 year franchise history, and the Jets and their obnoxious bandwagon fans claiming the Super Bowl title again after two weeks of hanging out in the Bermuda Triangle. Great start to the week and Christmas is officially ruined.

12/17

6:15am: Shake

9:15am: Turkey, egg whites, cheese hot sauce on whole wheat

12:00pm: 9oz. burger with mozzarella and sauteed onions. First burger in almost two months, fucking miracle it lasted that long.

Haven't updated this since Friday. It's now Monday, not real sure what I had after lunch..

Open Bar/Food for ConEd Holiday party: Ate decent, had salmon, steak and vegetables. Food was real good, and I hate seafood.

12/16

6:00am: Shake

8:30am: Cuts

9:30am: Turkey, egg white, cheese and hot sauce on whole wheat

1:00pm: Subway oven roasted chicken 6"

3:45pm: Subway oven roasted chicken 6" (both whole wheat)

8:300pm: Gym

10:00pm: Shake

10:15pm: Small cup mac and cheese

Way to end the day strong, Rick.

12/15

5:45am: Shake, Cuts

9:00am: Egg white and hot sauce on whole wheat

12:00pm: Roast Beef, cheese, peppers and onions on whole wheat

6:00pm: Chili

8:00pm: GYM

10:00pm: Shake

12/14

Another slow start to the day, and I'm convinced until I step foot back in the gym, my mornings are going to continue to disappoint.

6:00am: Half of a Gatorade AM

9:15am: Turkey, egg whites, cheese, hot sauce on whole wheat

12:00pm: Tuna melt on whole wheat (Half)

2:00pm: Half chili/rice/onions

4:00pm: Tuna melt on whole wheat (Half)

8:00pm: GYM

9:45pm: Shake

10:30pm: 2 pieces grilled chicken

12/13

5:30am: 16oz Gatorade AM

9:15am: Egg whites on whole wheat, hot sauce

12:00pm: Chicken Teriyaki, rice, mixed vegetables (Really just ate the chicken)

2:00pm: Sugar-free Red Bull

8:00pm: Wings, Chili, 3 beers - TWU.

Completely cheated myself tonight, but due to the Giants getting moved to a Monday night, this was bound to happen. Giants dominated, I dominated, that's how it goes.

Weekend Recap

Not thrilled with my weekend. First off, Giants didn't even play - but I guess that gives me something to look forward to tonight. I didn't want to go out, wanted this to be a relaxing weekend. Friday night ended up being a late night at the gym, then ended up having to get up relatively early Saturday to go look at apartments in Brooklyn. After that, ended up stopping in the city to see Dustin who was playing in a beer pong tournament. I had a couple of beers and the only solid food I'd take in all day which were two slices of pizza. Got home to Hicksville, randomly went to Cheesecake Factory to have a couple beers. Went home, changed my shirt and went to Huntington to watch the fights. Craig and I for some nutty reason picked up Four Loko's to experiment what all this craziness is about. Well we'll just say after the 1 that I had, about an hour later is the last thing I remember. I'm pretty sure I completely embarrassed myself, haven't heard all the details, but the couple I did were pretty bad. So that was a failure. I was confined to my bed basically 23 hours on Sunday with a mixture of being sick and having an awful hangover. It's one of those nights that will haunt me for a while, or I'm going to try and sweep it under the rug and forget about it as quickly as possible. Today so far, I've had nothing but half of a Gatorade, so we're off to a good start beeeuuuppppppp.

12/10

FRIDAY BABY! Got to love Friday's.. Took an enjoyable, relaxable night off last night from the gym. Watched some Fast and Furious while laying down all night last night. Still woke up like I slept for 2 hours though, been like that all week it's frustrating. I sat up, looked at the clock.... Just kept saying to myself "It's Friday, tomorrow you're sleeping all morning, get through today and you're good." That did enough to get me up and into the shower, so now Craig is off today I have no one to e-mail and bullshit with while I avoid working, so I might have to do work today, but hey it's Friday.

5:45am: Shake, Cuts

8:15am: 1 oz. almonds

12:00pm: RTD Muscle Milk

1:00pm: Grilled Chicken, lettuce, tomato and honey mustard on whole wheat

4:00pm: 2 hard boiled eggs

Don't remember what else I had the rest of the day. I went home, got ready for the gym, did that - Didn't even have a shake when I got home. Showered and went to bed.

12/09

6:15am: Shake, cuts (Late start today)

9:15am: 4 Egg whites, whole wheat toast, hot sauce.

12:00pm: Turkey, lettuce, tomato, honey mustard on whole wheat.

2:00pm: Sugar free Red Bull (12oz.)

2:15pm: 1oz. almonds

2:45pm: GH Stack

6:00pm: 1 cup chili, 1/4 cup shredded cheese

8:00pm: 1 cup chili

10:00pm: Bed!

Wasn't the end of the day I was looking for in terms of eating, but it was a much needed night off from the gym and I got to bed relatively early, trying to kick this sickness thing. Ended the day around 1600 calories.

12/08

Starting to count calories.. I hate it but with some apps and online things it's pretty easy.. Going to try and keep it around 1800 a day. It's cutting a lot, but I want to really increase the weight loss over the next 3-4 weeks to see what happens and how my body reacts.

5:45am: Shake, Cuts

9:15am: Egg whites, hot sauce on whole wheat (lost the turkey and cheese off the regular sandwich)

11:45pm: Subway (half sandwich) Oven Roasted Chicken (lettuce, peppers, pickles, fat-free honey mustard)

3:00pm: Other half of sandwich

3:30pm: 2 tbsps peanut butter

6:00pm: 1 cup chili w/ .25 cup shredded cheese

7:30pm: Gym supps

GYM

10:30pm: Shake, shower, bed.

Ended the day around 1,860 but with exercise about 1,400 netted.

12/7

Was at The Learning Center all day for an 8 hour class. Long day but was able to log everything I ate in my notebook. Today was the first day I felt like I had a clear understanding of what I wanted to eat and when. I was able to time things nicely and was able to keep my calories low. I have a feeling it's going to get a lot easier a month in now - I've got a much better idea of what I want to accomplish and how to get there. Each meal has to have a meaning, and my cardio has got to increase. Was able to run after my lift tonight so today has been a very productive day, one of the better ones so far..

5:30am: Shake, Cuts

7:00am: 4 Egg whites

8:00am: Cup of oatmeal, 1 1/2 Splenda

8:30am: Sugar Free Red Bull (16oz.)

10:30am: Protein bar

11:45am: Turkey on whole wheat (lettuce, tomato, peppers, honey mustard)

2:00pm: Sugar Free Red Bull (12oz.) (It was a long day, okay?)

5:00pm: MRP Shake (1 cup skim milk, 1 scoop whey, 1/2 cup oats, ice and water - blended)

GYM

9:30pm: PWO Shake

10:30pm: 1/2 cup cottage cheese

Ended the day around 1,750 calories, with exercise netted about 1,250.

12/6

5:30am: Shake, Cuts

6:15am: MRP Shake (Whey, oats, peanut butter, skim milk, glutamine, ice - blended)

6:20am: Got ready for work.

6:30am: Walked out the door.

6:45am: Train platform - "Oh shit. Forgot my phone. Damn."

7:45am: Walking to desk - "Oh, okay. No watch either today? Nice job so far."

I've only been at work for a half hour, and not having my phone is killing me. Everytime I think about grabbing it for something I feel so disappointed in myself for forgetting it. It's really the only thing I consider a necessity at work. I don't know how anyone survived without phones. I was alive and I don't even know what the world was like 10 years ago.

9:15am: Turkey, egg whites, cheese and hot sauce on whole wheat

11:45am: Subway oven roasted chicken, banana peppers, jalapenos, lettuce, pickles, onions, fat free honey mustard - 100% disappointed today from the idiots at Subway. Basically two skinny ass grilled chicken tenders on one side, toppings on the other. It was like half chicken half veggie delight. I had to eat one half like a shitty piece of corn on the cob. Unacceptable. Subway is on a 2 day suspension from my lunch options.

2:15pm: Absolutely hate myself for forgetting my phone..

3:30pm: 2 tbsps. peanut butter

4:15pm: Cuts

Weekend Recap

Decent little weekend. Friday night had a real good night in the gym, came home and had a little food (pasta). Then met up with the only two followers of this blog thing to grab a beer. Place is an absolute shit hole so we stayed for the one beer and went home. Glad we made it an early night. Craig and I hit the gym Saturday morning, and I'm still real sore so tonight will be tough. Helped with some Christmas decorations at home, then went out for me and my dad's birthday dinner. We went to Rare 650 in Syosset, place is legit. Everything about it was great, exceeded expectations. After that it was time for the city to meet up with the guys and some friends from Cortland for a belated birthday night out for Craig and myself. I'm glad I got there late or things could've gotten real ugly. But all in all it was a good night, carried over to the Giants game on Sunday. Dustin and I hit up Hooters and Craig met us there. Crushed some wings and some beers while the Giants straight up crushed the Redskins. Got home took a solid 3 hour nap, don't think I ate anything else just had a lot of water and was able to get to sleep at a normal time. Not feeling any ill effects from the weekend just yet, hopefully it stays that way so I can hit the gym hard tonight.

Month Numero Uno Overview

I'm going to take a second to breakdown my thoughts on the first month of this diet plan. And I'm sure all 3 people who know this blog exists will want to hear about it, right? I haven't noticed a whole lot in what I want, which is to trim down. I'm also lifting a lot more now, therfore I am noticing muscle in my upper body coming in, but not burning fat at the rate I want so far. I know going forward my cardio is going to be intensified (If I walk fast today it'd be intensified since I basically do none), so I know those results will get kickstarted once I get that going.

The whole strict policy on what I'm eating was more to do with my partner and holding ourselves accountable, but since I've basically been doing this alone since day 2 the master list has been more of a guideline to healthy eating options. I think about 90% of what I've taken in over the last month has been nothing but good for me. I haven't gone off track too much, and I've stuck with the once a week cheat fairly consistently. I'm proud of myself that I've actually been able to do what I'm setting out to do, although I'm far from where I want to be. But to get through a month with no major road bumps, including Thanksgiving being involved, is a major step in the right direction for me. It seemed like an intimidating task to do all this, but my will power has held strong and I've been pretty good.

12/3

6:15am: Everything bagel, cream cheese

8:50am: Cuts

9:30am: Turkey, egg whites, cheese and hot sauce on whole wheat.

12:00pm: Mulanes Grill for lunch, got the special - Spicy Chicken Alfredo - BANGIN'!

Side note about the newest goal for my life:


http://nyc.barstoolsports.com/random-thoughts/guess-that-ass-317/#more-37743

Jaime Koeppe - OH. MY. GOD. Have you ever in your life seen anything this perfect? Seriously. If I could create a test tube wife and just pick and choose every aspect of what I wanted in her - this is exactly to the T how she would come out of the matrix liquid. Her with the aprin on just smiling at me as I walk into the kitchen, ass out just telling me she'd be happy to make me anything I wanted for breakfast. I don't even like breakfast, she could dump the kitchen garbage bag on the frying pan and cook it - I'd eat it and tell her it was the best thing I've ever had.

12/2

Finally back on track and trying to stay there as best I can. Had a rough start to the week but re-energized myself with the workout last night.. I knew I absolutely crushed my body, especially my back and legs, so I wanted to get some sort of cardio in today. Even though the windchill was at 25 at 5:15 this morning, I knew I needed to man up and go for a run. Thought since I hadn't run since Thanksgiving morning, and the absolute crap I ate since then, it would be pretty tough. Was not as bad as I thought it'd be, actually was able to pick the pace up pretty good for the last quarter mile, was happy with the turn out. Definitely came real close to copping out around 5:05, but once I started getting dressed I knew I had to stop thinking and just get it done.

5:15am: Cuts, Shock Therapy

6:15am: Shake

8:15am: 1oz. almonds

9:15am: Turkey, egg whites, cheese, hot sauce - whole wheat

12:00pm: Falafel with white sauce, didn't know it came fried - sucks, but whatever that's how I had to have it. Not thrilled, next time I'll just play it safe and get the damn chicken.

3:30pm: Cuts

4:00pm: 3 Hard boiled eggs (no yoke)

Took down just under a gallon of water today at work, my goal is always a little more than a gallon a day. Almost there, usually do about half lately at work. I'm going to start trying to get the full gallon done before I leave here so the rest is just surplus, which is what I want.

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9:00pm: Chips and salsa along with margaritas. Yep. That was my food intake the rest of the night up until 11pm. Went home, brushed my teeth and went to sleep. Sweet job.

12/1

Hello December. 60 degrees with 60+mph winds and rain everywhere, felt more like a September hurricane. Craig had people in his office falling over trying to fax shit because the building was literally swaying back and forth. Again, woke up with the intentions of going for a run to make up for an awful Tuesday effort, and hit the snooze twice. Unproductivity continues....

Get to work, have my usual breakfast from the deli - Turkey, egg whites and cheese with hot sauce on whole wheat. Have some crystal light throughout the morning. Had subway for lunch, went with the new pastrami sub with no care about calories at this point thinking I'm pretty much done. Thought I'd just keep my tired level the rest of the day before I started getting real mad at myself to the point I turned my motivation back on.. Decided I was going to absolutely get back on track before I let my usual and predictable downward spiral continue. I threw my gym mix on for the train ride home and made sure I got myself up. Got home, tried not to relax, had my supps and manned up for the gym.

I absolutely murdered the gym - Hitting highs on both of my main lifts for the night - deads (275/5) and bench (225/5)

I doubled up the previous nights workout with the chest workout and just straight did work. Sweat was going, intensity was there throughout, haven't had a workout like that in a long time and earned a real day off for Thursday. Got home, had a shake then some turkey, showered and went to sleep.

11/30

Had to be up early because I had to be in Long Island City at 7am for training at the Learning Center. Had about a quarter of a bagel with cream cheese in the morning with some water. Around 8:30 had an apple and a sugar-free Red Bull. Ran into my cousin there, odds of which are almost 0% but my class was done right when he got out for lunch so we got a couple slices and I headed back to the office around noon. Don't remember eating much after that, went home little earlier than normal - about 3:30. Got home with the intention of going to the gym and didn't. I decided I could double up the work on Wednesday and maybe get a run in early in the morning to make up for my laziness since I hadn't worked out since Saturday.. Was pretty pissed at myself, then decided to eat left-overs to really hammer home the tired/depressed feeling of not going to the gym. Real unproductive day, probably the worst since I started this and almost felt like this was going to derail me for a minute.