Meaurment Day 9/12

Well I gained back 3 of the 4 lbs. The good thing is that all of my upper body measurements increased significantly. The good thing is that when I was 182 my arms, chest, and shoulders were all smaller with the same waist. Now I'm 181, waist is still 30.75 but the upper body has increased .25 inches or more. The short of it is that I'm trending in the right direction.

Calories are lower this week at 2,500 and a nice curveball has been thrown in ala traveling for work. I'll be heading to Baltimore and eating what's given to me. Luckily my company was started by the owner of the Baltimore Ravens, meaning that it's made up of athletic folks and usually lunches are some type of leaner meat and there's always fruit, yogurt and I'll bring some protein. The hotel gym sucks so I'll just be trying to maintain strength by doing the same amount of exercises, just using the machine they have...we shall see.

Meaurment Day

Holy Shit I lost 4 pounds!!! I think this is the result of two weeks ago having two days of zero carbs and almost zero fat. What's great is that my strength is either the same or up still and I'm not feeling the effects of being a hair smaller. I did also undereat a couple of days because life on the road has been hectic. I'm definitely going to do a better job of keeping food with me at all times. Unfortunately when eating out for lunch no less than twice and sometimes up to 5 times a week my options are limited. The good news is that you can generally find some slab of meat and sides at any restaurant. The bad news is that my protein requirement is high and usually the cheap starchy sides override the more expensive cut of meat. Also, if I order a salad usually the average meat portion is 3 to 4 oz. NOT ENOUGH!!! So I will be carrying around protein powder from now on. As my competition draws closer I'm sure I'll be carting around pre cooked rice and sweet potatoes as well in a cooler. It's been a while since I've done that, but I have a plan. Basically I will order a salad with chicken during lunch, explain to the client that I eat light because I don't want to crash mid day and then after lunch is over hit my cooler in the car and chow on whatever extra food I'll need to hit my nutritional intake. Hey at least half my meal will be free!

Anyway, my waist is now down to 30.5 inches which is an all time low outside of competition. I'm probably only 10 lbs from contest shape and I feel great! It's nice seeing abs again! We finally unpacked our camera too so pictures to come.

The week is almost over

Waking up is getting tough...I have this nice new house with a nice huge bedroom...great right? WRONG!!! I'm so damn comfortable and it's so dark in the morning that waking up to go and work out is just plain hard! Of course the idiot that lived here before me decided that all she needed in her master bedroom addition was a french door. I guess windows are overrated! Well because of this it gets pitch black in my room at night making it even harder than normal to wake at 4:45 for my workout...AARRGGHH.

So I felt a bit tired today for my back workout. I managed to muscle my way through it of course. I've been using a preworkout supplement for energy that last few months and I'm not a huge proponent of supps, but this stuff is decent. Needless to say I'm out and won't get another can until Saturday, maybe it's mental maybe not...either way I'm tired. We'll see what the Saturday measurements bring. Still pushing for 2750 calories and 250 grams of protein.