I want to challenge myself by trying to be perfect from now till next year. Of course, we all try to be as perfect as we can with our diet/training,but there’s only a few that actually do it.
I want to see If I can accomplish that from now until 2009. This doesn’t mean I’ll start cheating on January, 1st. I Just want to see what results I’ll get If I really focus everyday( something I don’t do)
training 5x a week
perfect dieting with one cheat a week
No beer
Has anybody ever tried this? Or is everybody always focus and motivated without trying to hype/challenge themselves up, Like I am?
My experience with people who put things off like this is that they never come through. “This is my last pack of cigs… my last beer… my last dorito… I’ll start next week… I’m just waiting for this… etc etc.”
Good luck and I wish you well, but it seems to me that if you were serious you would be starting today.
Yeah, people probably do that ALL the time. If you’re being “perfect,” you won’t include a cheat meal in there. Clean dieting is clean dieting. That’s like saying “I’m going to play this entire football game without cheating. Except I think I’ll facemask someone once every quarter.”
Go big, or go home. There shouldn’t be any excuses, anyway.
My experience with people who put things off like this is that they never come through. “This is my last pack of cigs… my last beer… my last dorito… I’ll start next week… I’m just waiting for this… etc etc.”
Good luck and I wish you well, but it seems to me that if you were serious you would be starting today.[/quote]
You’re right, I’ll start today. This all started because of a segment I saw on t.v Which had a “professional fitness trainer” say, Its impossible to stick to a diet for long periods of time, because of social and biological implications. WTF!!! The longest his patients stuckk to a diet without cheating was a month. I want to see If I could go the whole year. Every once in a while I lose motivation, So this would also be a new and exciting challenge.
try not to call it a “cheat meal” b/c people here and maybe even you might start to CHEAT…and eat like crap one day or get wasted (which without drinking for a long time can happen on very little alcohol) one day.
Just call it a “re-feed” day. A day that you can have a little more food, pay less attention to your macros, have some more carbs etc…
When I started cutting in the winter; I called it and thought of it as a cheat meal. You know what I had 3 weeks in a row?
A whole pizza and chocolate cheese cake; at 9pm. Stupid. I started thinking of it as a re-feed and I started having some potatoes or stuffing at lunch saturday before I trained; and saw much better results…and didn’t feel bad.
Good luck man! It’s only a few months; you can totally do it!
I did 6mo of eating “perfect” and things worked out well for me. Only drank 2 times the whole 6mo and had those 3 crappy meals.
[quote]B rocK wrote:
try not to call it a “cheat meal” b/c people here and maybe even you might start to CHEAT…and eat like crap one day or get wasted (which without drinking for a long time can happen on very little alcohol) one day.
Just call it a “re-feed” day. A day that you can have a little more food, pay less attention to your macros, have some more carbs etc…
When I started cutting in the winter; I called it and thought of it as a cheat meal. You know what I had 3 weeks in a row?
A whole pizza and chocolate cheese cake; at 9pm. Stupid. I started thinking of it as a re-feed and I started having some potatoes or stuffing at lunch saturday before I trained; and saw much better results…and didn’t feel bad.
Good luck man! It’s only a few months; you can totally do it!
I did 6mo of eating “perfect” and things worked out well for me. Only drank 2 times the whole 6mo and had those 3 crappy meals.
Do it to it!![/quote]
“re-feed” day, Thanks!! Thats good advice. what was your experience and results on those six months??
Thats a lonnnnnggg time to be “perfect”. I do wish you luck and hope you will be perfect. I used to think the same, but when you aim for perfect, you tend to fall hard when “perfect” doesn’t happen. I would aim to be really good.
You’re right, I’ll start today. This all started because of a segment I saw on t.v Which had a “professional fitness trainer” say, Its impossible to stick to a diet for long periods of time, because of social and biological implications. WTF!!! The longest his patients stuckk to a diet without cheating was a month. I want to see If I could go the whole year. Every once in a while I lose motivation, So this would also be a new and exciting challenge.
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Best of luck. I really hope you do it. That said, I hope you’re really doing this for yourself and not to prove some guy on TV wrong. In my experience, the only way to make a permanent change is to do it for yourself, not someone else. I learned that from the best coach I ever had. He also taught me that working hard for something is the only way to really enjoy it, because things that come easy are taken for granted.
My experience with people who put things off like this is that they never come through. “This is my last pack of cigs… my last beer… my last dorito… I’ll start next week… I’m just waiting for this… etc etc.”
Good luck and I wish you well, but it seems to me that if you were serious you would be starting today.[/quote]
agreed. when i quit cigarettes i just did it. i never told anyone, i never said ok tomorrows the day, i said todays the day and did it. when i stopped drinking for a year i just stopped. when i started lifting i just started and kept going.
my brother just did this shit the other day, hes like tomorrow im quit drinking and smoking and me and friend both said no you arent. and told him how stupid it is to say youre gonna quit something tomorrow or next week or whatever like if you can do it then you can do it now.
How about you focus on enjoying a new lifestyle of eating lots of delicious food and forcing constant progress in the gym and having an excuse to sleep a lot?
Rather than turning your body and mind into some regimented factory of pain, humiliation, and perfection. haha
[quote]nomorewar wrote:
B rocK wrote:
try not to call it a “cheat meal” b/c people here and maybe even you might start to CHEAT…and eat like crap one day or get wasted (which without drinking for a long time can happen on very little alcohol) one day.
Just call it a “re-feed” day. A day that you can have a little more food, pay less attention to your macros, have some more carbs etc…
When I started cutting in the winter; I called it and thought of it as a cheat meal. You know what I had 3 weeks in a row?
A whole pizza and chocolate cheese cake; at 9pm. Stupid. I started thinking of it as a re-feed and I started having some potatoes or stuffing at lunch saturday before I trained; and saw much better results…and didn’t feel bad.
Good luck man! It’s only a few months; you can totally do it!
I did 6mo of eating “perfect” and things worked out well for me. Only drank 2 times the whole 6mo and had those 3 crappy meals.
Do it to it!!
“re-feed” day, Thanks!! Thats good advice. what was your experience and results on those six months??
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in the 6 months; i went from 198 @ about 22% bf to 180 @ 10% bf and was able to maintain that for the last 2 months.
it was very good progress considering i did it all with a major lower back injury the whole time. i had to train around the injury for 90% of that time. my cardio got really good and i became a morning person (5am morning sprints force that uppon you)
it was the beginning of a major change in my life and i haven’t looked back since.
my back is getting better; my training is progressing (280lb bench today; 20lb PR)…i’m at around 11-12% bf right now…
[quote]mr popular wrote:
How about you focus on enjoying a new lifestyle of eating lots of delicious food and forcing constant progress in the gym and having an excuse to sleep a lot?
Rather than turning your body and mind into some regimented factory of pain, humiliation, and perfection. haha[/quote]
If he chooses to avoid listening to posts like this, I doubt he will last the entire year…or if he does, he will hate this activity from that point forward.
The ones who stick with this enjoy it. This isn’t some attempt at self inflicted boot-camp.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
mr popular wrote:
How about you focus on enjoying a new lifestyle of eating lots of delicious food and forcing constant progress in the gym and having an excuse to sleep a lot?
Rather than turning your body and mind into some regimented factory of pain, humiliation, and perfection. haha
If he chooses to avoid listening to posts like this, I doubt he will last the entire year…or if he does, he will hate this activity from that point forward.
The ones who stick with this enjoy it. This isn’t some attempt at self inflicted boot-camp.[/quote]
Agreed with both posts. New Year’s resolution type ideas like this last about… 2 weeks tops. Worry about being perfect if there is money on the line(sponsorship, pro card etc) besides that worry about consistency and enjoying the process.
Your thinking is the #1 reason most beginners fail. You have to crawl before you can walk, before you can run ext. Do something simple that you can stick with.