01/31

5:45am: Protein shake, Cuts, Test

9:15am: Turkey, egg whites, cheese, hot sauce on whole wheat - hot tea w/ honey.

10:00am: Pak

11:45am: Subway (oven roasted chicken 6" whole wheat)

1:15pm: 2 tbsp peanut butter

3:00pm: Other half of Subway

4:00pm: Cuts

6:00pm: Shock Therapy, Test

GYM

9:00pm: Protein shake

10:00pm: Chicken cutlet

10:30pm: Bed

Weekend Recap

Weekend was pretty quiet. Second weekend in a row without going out, starting to re-enforce my position on not going out, think it's the smartest thing I've ever thought of. Glad I'm finally committing to doing it, saving me money and I feel a lot better. On day 14 without alcohol and haven't had any itch to have it, thought I'd want to sit around and have some beers at some point - fortunately that hasn't happened. The workouts have been going along pretty well. This last week was a light week with it, was disappointed but when I look back a week my plan was to go light because my back has been bothering me lately. Food-wise I've been pretty good. Haven't strayed yet, few cravings but I've fought them off pretty easily. Just need to keep the blinders on and focus on the goal and what I want long term, not short.

01/28

6:15am: Protein Shake, Cuts, Test

9:15am: Egg whites, turkey, cheese, hot sauce on whole wheat. Grapefruit, hot tea, Pak.

12:00pm: Pan Seared Atlantic Salmon, asparagus, broccoli.

2:45pm: 1 tbsp. peanut butter

4:00pm: Cuts

6:00pm: GYM

8:00pm: Shake

9:00pm: Half Chipotle bowl (Barbacoa, peppers/onions, black beans, corn, salsa, hot sauce)

11:00pm: Shake

01/27

Winter storm, sick.

6:30am: Protein shake, Cuts, Test

7:30am: 2 Eggs, hashbrowns

11:45am: Chili w/ rice

2:00pm: Protein bar

4:00pm: Cuts

7:00pm: 4oz. steak, baked potato, asparagus.

9:00pm: 8oz. 90/10 ground beef, spices, shredded cheese

11:00pm: Protein shake, Test

01/26

6:15am: Protein shake, Cuts, Test

9:15am: Egg whites, hot sauce on whole wheat, hot tea w/ honey and side of grapefruit

(Not a fan of hot tea, but know it's benefits are real good so I got it.... BANGIN! Didn't expect the honey to make a huge difference, but damn... Might be gettin' this on the reg)

11:45am: Grilled chicken topped with cheese, asparagus and a double side of broccoli! Killed it.

2:00pm: Protein bar

4:00pm: Cuts, Protein shake

7:00pm: GYM

9:00pm: Protein Shake

10:00pm: 10oz. ground beef, shredded cheese

12:00am: Protein Shake

01/25

6:30am: Protein Shake, Cuts, Test

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

12:00pm: Pan Seared Atlantic Salmon in balsamic vinegar topped with fresh pineapple salsa and a double side of broccoli! WOW! On point right now.

3:00pm: Protein bar

7:00pm: Lamb, pesto

10:00pm: Slice meatloaf and carrots

E-mail

Alright folks, this is what gets me through my day (other than random smut websites that my company didn't block). So I e-mail primarily with two people throughout each day at work, almost like when you passed notes in 6th grade in the hallway, just can't wait for the return note. So today the e-mails have been disgustingly sub-par. It's Monday, it's 6 degrees, my spit is freezing before it hits the ground, I'm going to need a serious A-game type of e-mail volley to keep me going today and I'm just not getting it. Not a good day to do it. No excuses, the weekend rust is no excuse I won't have it. If I'm able to stop what I'm doing (haha) to answer back in an average of MAYBE 5 minutes tops, how am I waiting 30-45 minutes and sometimes hours for a response today?! And then on top of that how are you going to respond to a paragraph with one sentence? Show some respect. Time for a SFRB and if you have to ask, you just don't know!

Nice Shoes

With all the ice and garbage outside, I've been leaving my shoes in the office and changing into them when I get here.... I didn't realize I didn't change them until I got up about two hours after I got here, so I'm going to see if I can make it the whole day....

01/24

It's 6 degrees outside today. Enough said.

5:30am: Shake, Cuts, Test

6:30am: Protein, Skim milk, Oats, Ice, Glutamine - Blended - Was as close to concrete as I've ever made anything, put too much protein in and it almost clogged the blender. Wasn't thinking and haven't used milk in a while with a shake.

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

12:00pm: Subway 6" whole wheat bread, oven roasted chicken, mustard, lettuce, peppers

2:30pm: Cup of chili (Subway coming through big time with this) [Edit: This chili sucks. Probably worst I've ever had. Zero flavor, it's basically tomato soup with small pieces of meat in it, awful] {Okay it's been about a half hour since I've had that shit and I'm pissed. What the fuck was that? It was definitely tomato soup and they had leftovers they had no idea what to do with it so they just ground up whatever meat they had and threw it in. I barely could use a spoon it was so thin. Stupid.}

3:15pm: SFRB

4:00pm: Cuts (Bold move)

7:00pm: Shock Therapy, Test

10:00pm: Protein Shake

11:00pm: Bed

Yeah bold move would also include not eating dinner. I don't know, didn't want to eat before the gym and by the time I got home it was way too late to eat, guess that's one way to keep the calories down.. I was able to get a mile run in after my lift then do abs so it was at least productive in terms of the workout.

Weekend Recap

Finally did what I said I was going to do - nothing. I wanted to have a weekend where I ate relatively healthy on my off day (Sunday) and not drink or go out. I think myself, Craig and our friend Nick decided to move to a place in Long Beach, NY. It was fun going to look at the place, meet the landlord and all that, it's pretty exciting. Moving out is always stressful, but this feels the least stressful so far compared to the others. I was happy with myself being at two separate bars this weekend and only having water. I made a committment and getting through the first weekend was probably going to be my biggest hurdle. Now I have time invested and it will be hard for me to throw it away knowing how satisfying it was to do. I'm a week into a three week dry spell and I already feel much better. As shitty as it sounds, I don't think I've gone longer than a week without alcohol more than 2 or 3 times since I turned 21. It sounds pretty pathetic but I don't think a lot of people I know have done it either. I know if I can make it 21 days I should see dramatic differences in how I look and feel and that's more important to me right now than going out and having some beers. It's coming at a very good time with a big move coming up soon and my money being real tight, I'm going to need to be as focused as possible moving forward so this transition goes as smoothly as possible.

01/21

5:45am: Protein shake, Cuts

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

12:00pm: Roast beef, peppers, onions, cheese - sweet potato fries

1:00pm: Animal Pak

3:00pm: Protein shake

6:00pm: Pre-workout supps

GYM

8:30pm: Protein Shake

9:30pm: 6 oz. ground beef, 2 eggs, slice of cheese

01/20

Alright, been a while. Ate relatively clean since I last checked in, but about to go hard on the cleanliness again. Getting into a nice groove in the gym and am getting my new supplement stack in the mail tonight, so I'm ready to make a serious push.

6:00am: Protein shake

9:00am: Egg whites, whole wheat, hot sauce.

10:15am: 1oz. almonds

12:00pm: Cup of chili

3:00pm: "Pure Protein" bar

6:00pm: Protein shake

7:30pm: Slice meatloaf, mashed - slight cheat, huh?

It was only 24 hours ago and can't remember if I had anything else..

01/06

5:45am: Cuts, Shake

6:15am: Bowl chili

9:15am: Egg whites on whole wheat w/ hot sauce

12:00pm: Juniors reuben (Not healthy)

01/05

6:15am: Bagel

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

12:30pm: Subway - turkey, whole wheat

2:45pm: Shake

5:30pm: Chili

7:30pm: GYM

10:00pm: Shake

11:00pm: MRP Shake (skim, pb, whey, glutamine, ice - blended)

01/04

Don't like the way my days have been breaking down lately. Only good thing about it is my calories are low by default, but no way I'll be able to accomplish what I want eating next to nothing all day. I need to start planning out snacks a lot better so I get more meals in throughout the day. I was much better at that in November and have been slacking off on that real hard for about the last month.

Last night was nuts. I've had trouble sleeping before, but never like I did last night. Was in bed by 11:15 and was up until 4. It was unexplainable. I was dead tired after the gym and couldn't sleep. I feel alright now, but I know in a couple hours I'm going to be struggling hard.

5:45am: Shake

6:15am: Bagel

8:30am: Cuts

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

11:00am: Starting to struggle..

12:15pm: Subway - turkey, whole wheat

1:15pm: Pak

5:30pm: Chili

8:00pm: 2 homemade mom burgers (Little aggressive but I was craving it)

Off night from the gym, needed it.

01/03

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

12:00pm: Steak panini

2:00pm: Sugar free Red Bull

4:00pm: Cuts/Pak

8:00pm: GYM

10:30pm: Shake

11:00pm: Small cup chili

Weekend Recap

This last weekend involved New Years Eve, always a disaster of a "holiday". I still think it's the most overrated night of the year, everyone thinks they're VIP top of the world and they all expect bottles of Rose to be popped at midnight. Wake up. This year I wasn't around anyone like that and it ended up being a pretty good night. We were so involved in what we were doing no one watched the ball drop. I think around 1am we all looked at each other and said happy new year. That's how it should be! Couple people got going out muscles around 1am, they were back in an hour. Overall though, everyone that was there had a real good time - I was up and on my way home at 9:30 in the morning, can't ask for better than that.

Same can't be said about Saturday night. Went out to watch the UFC fights in Huntington. We ended up staying there and going out until we were kicked out of the bar. Then we decided 3:30 in the morning wasn't late enough, so we went to Craig's house to play drinking games like we were still in college. I passed out for about an hour around 6am. Didn't get home until 8:30am. Huge mistake.

Spent all day Sunday in my bed. Watched the Giants get their most meaningless win in franchise history before showering and laying back in bed. Pretty weak end to the weekend, but NYE was a lot of fun so that was the highlight of the weekend. I'm looking forward to a bigger and better year this year, and hoping I can stay on this blog thing to stay consistent with the diet and exercise. Maybe I'll actually tell people about it so someone reads it.

Month Number Two Recap

Wasn't the prettiest month in terms of eating, but overall I stayed on course. Was consistent in the gym and I think in general I was pretty healthy with what I ate. I know on weekends I just show complete disregard for myself, but I expected that in December and don't expect it through January. Giants are out of the playoffs - so my interest in getting wasted, eating like shit and watching football has gone down to pretty much zero. The holidays were fun, it was nice to see some family I haven't seen in a while and had a good time hanging out with friends who were home for the holidays. Now that all that is behind me and a new year is here with pretty much no big events in the near future, it's a good time to put the blinders on and concentrate over the next few weeks. No real New Years resolutions, I think the only thing I want to really focus on is adding a lot of cardio to the workouts. I think it will make a huge difference going forward, I've been wanting to do it and haven't stayed consistent with it as of yet.