Week 1 Day 3- Carb load

So with the Cut Diet, the program I follow, I cut out all my carbs and seperate them from my protein intake. The last meal of every 3rd day, or every 21st meal, I carb load. Like I’ve said before, any program you follow is based on specific philosophies, so reasonable people would disagree with this program. If you’re reading this please remember this is a contest diet and not a lose weight diet. By carb loading like this I keep my metabolism burning and shocking it with the spike in carbs every 3rd day. But this is also one of the more difficult parts for me.

Today friggin sucked! Broccoli tastes like but, I started out with a great leg work out but it quickly caught up to me through out the day. I was a little lathargic this afternoon too. Day’s like today make cravings extrememly difficult to fight off. I was able to get all my meals in and keep my stomach fool so I didn’t have any problems with cheating, but it doesn’t mean today didn’t suck. I don’t know if it was because of the leg workout today but somedays I just wanna say screw it, and today was one of those days. I gotta stay focussed though, I feel better now that I’ve got some carbs back in me. If you follow this blog you’ll see that getting lean and mean is all about eating less, it’s about eating right. My intake is at about 3000 calories a day right now. Every few weeks, depending on my progress, I’ll reduce my calories from carbs and fats. This is where the results really come from. If you try the carb load, don’t drink any water or liquid at least 1 hr before and after and only drink up to 6 oz. of water. Anyways, I hope tomorrows better cause I am excited to hit the gym again.

Here’s my meals today and tomorrow’s work out.

5:30 am Meal 1: Protein shake, 2 tbsp. all natural peanut butter

6:00 am Work out: Legs (see yesterday’s blog for details)

8:00 am Meal 2: 6 egg whites, 1 yoke, 2 oz. chicken breast, 1.5 cups broccoli, ½ avocados, and ½ ruby red grape fruit

10:30 am Meal 3: 6 oz. top sirloin, 1.5 cups broccoli, and 1/3 avocados

12:00 pm Meal 4: 6 oz. chicken breast, 1.5 cups broccoli, 1/3 avocados

1:00 pm Work out: 30 min cardio (increase by 5 min every 4 weeks with maximum 45min)

3:00 pm Meal 5: Protein shake, ½ ruby red grape fruit, and 18 almonds

5:00 pm Meal 6: 6 oz. chicken breast, 1.5 cups broccoli, 1/3 avocados

Carb load
8:15 pm Meal 7: Eaten in this order
1- 1.5 cups steamed broccoli
2- 1 cup oatmeal (measured dry) + 2 tbsp. raisins, ¾ tbsp. honey, Splenda to sweeten, 18 almonds
3- 10 oz. sweet potato
4- 2 tbsp. peanut butter

Tomorrows work out: Back

Barbell bent over row 3-4*12
Single arm dumbbell row 3-4*12
Straight arm pull down 3-4*12
Machine lateral pull-down 3-4*12
Dumbbell shrug with abduction 3-4*12
Hyper extension 3-4*12