Diet Overview 3-23 to 3-29 2009

Posted by admin on March 23rd, 2009 at 06:42pm

This week is the last week of my leaning out diet.  I took an Intermittant Fasting approach which can be read about here.  Generally speaking, throughout my dieting phase I ate from 1:30 or 2:00 in the afternoon until about 9:00 or 9:30 at night.  I would then fast through the night and the morning.  This has seemed to work very well for me.  I have increased my strength while losing a limited amount of weight.  Since January, I am down from 202 to 186.  Pretty slow, I know, but that was the plan.

I typically cycle my calories and my carbs.  Right now, as I wind down on the diet, I only have one day where I up my calories and get most of those calories from carbs.  The other days are low carbs.  So here is my low carb days for the last week:

Low Carb Meal 1:
1/2 can of Tuna with a touch of Mayo
4 long celery sticks
500 mg Vitamin C
3g Fish Oil

Low Carb Meal 2:
1/2 can of Tuna with a touch of Mayo
7 ounces of Brocolli
500 mg Vitamin C
3g Fish Oil

Low Carb Meal 3:
Something for dinner with my wife.  Sometimes an omelet, sometimes chicken and veggies, sometimes beef with avocado, pepper, onions etc.

Throughout the day, I drink green tea, about 8 cups total.

Then on Wednesdays, I open up and let loose.  I don’t restrict calories at all.  Typically I will have honey nut cheerios, two turkey sandwiches on wheat, red skin potatoes, chocolate milk, a banana, and pretty much any other starch or grain until I am nice and full.  This day replenishes my glycogen and typically gives me a great pump.  Plus, it gives me something to look forward to during the week.

So that is the general overview of my diet for the next week.  After this week is up, I will be cycling calories and carbs even more.  I will have all of my main training days be high carb (and calorie) days and all other days will be low carb (and low calorie) days.  I will continue to structure my eating according to the Intermittent Fasting style.

I know my last few posts have been kind of scattered, but I think that is due to me wrapping up a diet.  Once I move on to my next phase, I hope to have a more detailed and better organized plan for posting.

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