Well it is the morning of day two. I woke up feeling a lot better than I did last night. Around 2PM yesterday I started to feel a small headache come on which ended up growing into a massive pain in my head and ass by the evening. Luckily if finally began to go away with the help of some Advil by the time I got ready to lay down. Yesterday definitely started out great and got harder as we went on. Even though I had plenty of food to eat it was hard watching TV and not wanting to just grab something else. Luckily our dinner yesterday evening was good and subsided any horrible wants for fattening food. With the headache and everything else going on I finally decided to crash around 8:30. I woke up this morning feeling ten times better and everything already seems easier today after having to get through the first day.
The thing I find so fascinating and motivating with this diet is knowing that the current schedule of food I am on is only 17 days and then I get to add a whole new addition of foods to my diet for another 17 days, and so on. The one thing I have figured out with the diet is that it keeps you at a high level of protein throughout the entire day, helping to burn at any fat storage. Then any sugars you do eat, which are all good sugars and carbs, you eat all before 2PM so your body only has to worry about working on fat storage in the evening and overnight. The other hard thing is trying to keep up with the water intake. The water intake of 64 oz of water a day can be hard due to the fact of just forcing yourself to drink that much. If I go workout for a half our or full hour I can down 32 oz in the whole period, but sadly in this diet he doesn't want you to work out so hard.
So this leads me into my exercise routine I'll be working on this first phase. For now I am going to be doing the 100 push up test and the 200 push up test 3 times a week which should take up right at about 20 minutes to do. Helping build muscle, endurance, and cardio all in one. As for the other 4 days I'll end up doing around 20 minutes of "Insanity" for now mixed in with some other cardio stuff. Once I hit the second phase to third phase I am going to start going back to the gym and sparring again - boxing, kickboxing, and mma.
For now I am just happy to be past the first day and know I did great. I have done plenty of diets before and lost tons of weight but this diet definitely seems great compared to anything else. The best part is that even after one day I can already feel the change in my body with feeling cleaner and sharper.
Well here is to day two and many more to soon come.
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First and foremost I admire you both soooooo much! For some time now I have been EXTREMELY unhappy about my weight but always find myself making excuses. But after following this blog for a couple of days its really making me realize that I need to stop making excuses and finally just do something! I don't think you guys realize just how motivating you both are. I know you guys are doing this for yourselves, but I hope you know how much you're helping everyone else too. Keep up the great work guys! I look forward to following this journey!
ReplyDeleteThanks Tasch! It has definitely been an interesting diet and I know that people say this all the time with their diets, but I really am looking at this like a lifestyle change. Once we get to the fourth phase/cycle in the diet it literally is like we are back to eating normal except with guidelines on how we should eat.
ReplyDeleteIt is good to know that we are having a good effect on people since that is a huge motivator. Thank you again so much for commenting!