So begins a new chapter of my training. I will do my best to log my experiences and update with weight, mood, sleep, physique, strength, etc as I start to see/feel any changes with this rather large change in my nutrition. My goal for the next 60 days is to greatly increase the amount of vegetables consumed and explore healthy protein alternatives to meat. I’m not going to go completely meat free, but it will be drastically reduced. This will in turn equate to a much lower protein intake and a much greater carbohydrate intake.
Since I’ve never experimented much with consistent high-carb, this will give me a good way of assessing how I perform on this macro breakdown.
The main things I want to be sure to track through the next 60 days are:
- Weight (obviously)
- Calories and Macro breakdown (and how fluctuations affect my next morning’s weight)
- Strength (I’m going to be running 5/3/1 with +sets for this period so I should be able to track strength fairly easily with this approach).
- Bonus things would be sleep, physique, mood, stress, etc.
Day 1 of 60: Week 1 OHP
Morning Weight: 207.8lbs (This was after breakfast though, so I’m assuming closer to 207lbs…I’ll try to weight in pre-breakfast each morning…if I can remember)
OHP
95 x 10
135 x 5
165 x 5
185 x 9
CGBP
145 x 10 x 5
GIANT SET
Seated Lat Raise/Seated Front Raise/Seated Clean and Press - 25lb DBs
10/6/8
10/6/6
10/6/6
Nice quick workout. Shoulders were pumped up! The 130g of carbs for breakfast could have aided with that pump!
Nutrition (will update throughout the day):
- 1/2 cup steel cut oats, 1/2 cup quick oats, 1 scoop hemp/pea/brown rice protein blend, 1tbsp ground flax seed, 1tbsp chai seeds, 1tbsp almond butter, 1tbsp wheat germ, 1 banana
Cals895 C133 F25 P45
Supplements: B12, Fish Oil, D3, Multi - Uhm…well…kinda forgot about the birthday dinner we were going to today (wife’s bday was Friday)
1x 6oz homemade burger patty, 2 cobs of corn w/butter/salt/pepper, 1.5cups of kale salad, 1 piece of Dairy Queen ice cream cake, 6oz glass of white wine. So maybe Day 1 of this “healthy eating” will start tomorrow… - 2 scoops of metabolic drive protein powder made into “icing” with some almond milk.
Daily consumption: Totals Cals2,411 C264 F85 P141
After this little diet breakdown I punished myself with 50 burpees in 3:35. I was kind of surprised that my quads were the first thing giving out, my lungs were definitely screaming but the quads were starting to make getting up extremely difficult!