petergray
07-21-2007, 10:01 PM
So I decided to start a log here.
Some background
I graduated highschool at about 200lbs, by sophmore year in college I went up to 240lbs. I got tired of it and basically cut my diet to 1500 calories/day and did hours of cardio and whittled down to 170lbs. I was skinny fat but was content with it and maintained it for 4 1/2 years, then I got ill and was bed ridden/stuck at home for almost a year, where I ballooned to 213lbs.
http://bodyspace.bodybuilding.com/img/user_images/541017/progresspic/92801orig.jpg
Day 1
http://bodyspace.bodybuilding.com//img/user_images/541017/progresspic/92811orig.jpg
Week 4
March of this year I decided to do a keto diet and dropped 14lbs after 4 weeks. Started a new job and found it difficult to maintain, but I didn't eat horrible and continued to workout and stayed level at 200lbs.
I tried keto again this pass couple of weeks and dropped another 4lbs. But now I decided I pretty much hate it and now I'm switching to 40/40/20.
Stats
Height - 5'9"
Weight - 196lbs
Bodyfat - 20%
Waist - 35"
Goals
I do not have a specific weight goal only because I'm more concerned with bodyfat. I would like to get down anywhere between 8-10%. After calculations my lean body mass is about 157lbs with 39lbs of bodyfat. If I'm doing my math right, that means I would love to drop about 20ishlbs of bodyfat to get down to 10%. (assuming I maintain all my lbm)
I do not have a goal date because I do not want to rush myself. My only real goal is to be consistent with training and my diet, but not kill myself (or disappoint myself) with struggling to get to x by week y.
I have been doing a 100 day challenge, a mini challenge where I basically try to be consistent with training for the next 100 days. I'm on day 21 and have been on track 16 out of those 21 days.
Diet & Routine
I went through all the stickies. I'm not 100% on this so if anyone has any opinions on what I'm doing and can offer some guidance that would be great.
I plan to eat about 2400-2500 calories a day split into 6 small meals every few hours. The usual clean foods - brown rice, whole wheat breads, multi colored fresh veggies, lean meats, berries, nuts and water. Tomorrow is my first day, so I will be grocery shopping and post what I bought and will eat for the day.
I take a multivitamin and fish oils.
Only supplement I take is whey post workouts.
For workouts, I have been following the new rules of lifting routines the past couple months and it's been doing me well. So I'm going to continue with the full body routines in the book, post weights I do short cardio and on my non weight days I do long runs. Sundays are gonna be my no workout days and I plan to have a cheat meal each week.
So thanks in advance to anyone that will be reading and reviewing my progress. Wish me luck!
Some background
I graduated highschool at about 200lbs, by sophmore year in college I went up to 240lbs. I got tired of it and basically cut my diet to 1500 calories/day and did hours of cardio and whittled down to 170lbs. I was skinny fat but was content with it and maintained it for 4 1/2 years, then I got ill and was bed ridden/stuck at home for almost a year, where I ballooned to 213lbs.
http://bodyspace.bodybuilding.com/img/user_images/541017/progresspic/92801orig.jpg
Day 1
http://bodyspace.bodybuilding.com//img/user_images/541017/progresspic/92811orig.jpg
Week 4
March of this year I decided to do a keto diet and dropped 14lbs after 4 weeks. Started a new job and found it difficult to maintain, but I didn't eat horrible and continued to workout and stayed level at 200lbs.
I tried keto again this pass couple of weeks and dropped another 4lbs. But now I decided I pretty much hate it and now I'm switching to 40/40/20.
Stats
Height - 5'9"
Weight - 196lbs
Bodyfat - 20%
Waist - 35"
Goals
I do not have a specific weight goal only because I'm more concerned with bodyfat. I would like to get down anywhere between 8-10%. After calculations my lean body mass is about 157lbs with 39lbs of bodyfat. If I'm doing my math right, that means I would love to drop about 20ishlbs of bodyfat to get down to 10%. (assuming I maintain all my lbm)
I do not have a goal date because I do not want to rush myself. My only real goal is to be consistent with training and my diet, but not kill myself (or disappoint myself) with struggling to get to x by week y.
I have been doing a 100 day challenge, a mini challenge where I basically try to be consistent with training for the next 100 days. I'm on day 21 and have been on track 16 out of those 21 days.
Diet & Routine
I went through all the stickies. I'm not 100% on this so if anyone has any opinions on what I'm doing and can offer some guidance that would be great.
I plan to eat about 2400-2500 calories a day split into 6 small meals every few hours. The usual clean foods - brown rice, whole wheat breads, multi colored fresh veggies, lean meats, berries, nuts and water. Tomorrow is my first day, so I will be grocery shopping and post what I bought and will eat for the day.
I take a multivitamin and fish oils.
Only supplement I take is whey post workouts.
For workouts, I have been following the new rules of lifting routines the past couple months and it's been doing me well. So I'm going to continue with the full body routines in the book, post weights I do short cardio and on my non weight days I do long runs. Sundays are gonna be my no workout days and I plan to have a cheat meal each week.
So thanks in advance to anyone that will be reading and reviewing my progress. Wish me luck!