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Old 11-03-2007, 01:25 PM  
Varius
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I will no longer eat fast food or drink beer or mixed drinks.

It has now been exactly one week of me sticking to my new lifestyle plan. I won't call it a diet as it isn't, it's more just a few simple things I changed.

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  • I won't drink beer anymore. I will only drink wine and/or straight alcohol on the rocks (and much less of it as I should get drunk much faster).
  • I will never eat late at night or after a heavy night of drinking anymore.
  • I will eat 5-6 meals per day no exception. I used to have 2-3 per day (often skipping breakfast then eating lunch, dinner and late-night)
  • I will stop eating at fast food places unless it offers somewhat healthy choices (tuna or chicken Quiznos, etc...)
  • I will eat a lot more protein, less fat and less carbs than I have before. I will try for 40% protein, 40% carb, 20% fat.
  • I will try and drink a lot more water as I don't think I drink as much as I should.

It has now been one full week I have stuck to this plan and it's getting to become habit/easy to follow

I've actually been eating closer to 50% protein, 30% carb and 20% fat. I've had a minimum of 5 meals and often 6, not eating anything past 9pm or so.

Next week I will start to exercise on my home equipment once I'm allowed to (just had surgery so can't yet). I will also start playing Lacrosse every Sunday.

Few tips I learnt from talking to friends and my own net research for those of you trying to get in shape:
  • Try and eat 1g of protein per pound of body weight per day
  • Never eat after drinking alcohol, as the alcohol doesn't actually make you fat (only like 5% of it gets absorbd as fat) but it will produce acetate that will cause the fat in what you eat afterwards to be totally absorbed.
  • Sometimes, you can't get enough protein form food alone while trying to keep the carbs/fat down. I recommend GNC Pro Performance 50g Slam drinks. I drink two per day (easy to bring to the office and drink as two of my meals a day). Depending on the flavor, they are about 1-2g fat, 8-12g carb and 50g protein. That's a nice little 100g protein boost per day.

Next time most of you see me I think you'll notice a big difference physically
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