What's up guys?!
Hope everyone had a nice weekend! Anyway, I wanted to go over my diet today, and how everything has been working thus far.
So, as a lot of you know, I've been very happy with the progress so far. I did the keto diet for a week, and just felt like shit... It wasn't working for me, I just could get motivated to go lift, then finish with cardio... So, I've incorporated carbs following the ratios identically from John Meadows Universe Prep. So, far, the results have been insane. I've actually added a few pound of weight, but look MUCH leaner, so, that's okay with me. Here's an example of my diet today:
4 whole eggs, 2 pieces Ezekiel toast
1 egg white shake
8 ounces of ground beef (some sausage too) with spaghetti squash and a green salad
7 ounces chicken breast with sriracha and curry over 1 cup brown rice
1 egg white shake
Pre workout- 1/2 cup cream of rice, 1 tbsp nut butter, some sugar free Hershey's syrup
Intra workout- 2 scoops Extend, 3 scoops gatorade powder (66 carbs)
Post workout 1 cup of white rice with 7 ounces lean red meat and a green salad
This is around 320g protein, 328g carbs and about 60g fat. The carbs are almost entirely timed around lifting, except for the "slow" carbs within the Ezkiel bread and the brown rice (meal 4).
I cannot believe how quickly my body is changing on this diet. It seems so simple, and honestly I was VERY hesitant to keep this many carbs in... Well, I was wrong. I'm sure the carbs will be dropping soon, but there's not reason to fidget with them while fat is coming off.
I am hungry, all the time, which sucks. My body just isn't adapting to this little food, and I feel hungry/cranky a lot of the day. I really am shocked this is STILL an issue, a few weeks in..... Any suggestions on this would be great.
Cardio is just around 30 minutes EOD after lifting, just LISS stuff for now. It's a good time for me to reflect on things such as diet and training, and make notes about how it's going/changes I'm going to make.
Today marks day 1 of week three in Meadow's Universe training, this will give me 4 weeks at the end of my "cut" to either start a new program or figure something out. I cannot wait to run JM's Gauntlet again, that was the most fun I've ever had with a program.
Took this pic on Saturday, vascularity is popping lately!
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