These last few days have been ok, but this weekend is going to be rough.  My good friend and old roommate is getting married, and it’s an indian wedding, so that means it will last like 3 days and there will be a lot of bad food.  But my plan is to raise the bar monday.  I’m going to start eating only chicken, fish, and things that grow out of the ground.  I figure that should give me adequate calories without eating a bunch of crap.  And I will also up my fitness to 7 workouts per week.  It’s time to get serious.  Wish me luck!

So for the last week I’ve been on the injured list… I rolled my ankle pretty badly last wednesday playing basketball and have only now started to recover.  Yesterday evening was my first day back in the gym.  So last week was a bit of a setback, but I’m back on track and as soon as the ankle heals enough I’ll be back on the court as well. Nutrition-wise I’ve been ok.  I’ll admit there was a cheeseburger here and there, but no sweets and I’ve maintained a healthy level of calories, with a low amount of fats (I made the burgers myself using 92% lean ground...

Yesterday was day 7 of my Six Pack Abdominals experiment.  Overall things went well, though as you can see I didn’t eat nearly what I was supposed to.  I’m aiming to eat about 2800 calories, and yesterday I was about 900 calories short… just a little, right?  If I keep up this fitness level, I really need to be reaching my caloric intake goal. I also decided to start supplementing caffeine.  I am taking 200 mg first thing in the morning and about 15 minutes before my workout.  This will give me a little extra boost of energy, and should slightly increase my metabolic...

I have to admit, I haven’t been keeping up with recording everything I eat as well as I planned.  I know I should, but this is more difficult and requires much more time than most of my experiments.  I have been eating fairly well though.  I’m sure I’m staying around 2800 calories, which is fine considering I’m probably burning more than that daily.  I weighed in at 204.9 this morning, which is not bad considering I started at 209.5.  That’s about 4.5 lbs change in 6 days.  I’m sure I wont be dropping weight this consistently, but it’s an inspiring...

Yesterday was the first day of my six pack abs experiment.  As promised I have recorded everything I ate, along with my physical activity. As you can see, I ate 3,042 calories yesterday, and as the image below shows, I burned 4,779 calories.  Not bad for the first day.  I’m sure that kind of activity wont keep up, since I don’t play basketball for 2+ hours everyday.  I actually played for 3 hours, but considering all of the breaks between games and such, I put 2:15 in the program.  My legs are a bit sore, but overall it was a great first day.  I feel great, and I’m excited about...