I like this idea, to break our physical fitness transformation into different components and have each a separate challenge.

That way we can feel good about the days we do one part successfully, even if the other parts are not so successful. :nod:

My problem is getting my food, vitamins, supps & water in on time and shopping and preparing my food for the week during the weekend. :p

So if anyone wants to join in, I would love the company. You can specify as much or as little detail as you wish of your food plan. :)

My goal is to check in every day and report as to my success in not only sticking to my food plan but the timing of consumption.

I will post separately, generally, what my food, etc. is like as a point of reference.

So here are my food, etc. challenge for me. I am just going to describe it generally.

I have a timed eating program with vitamins & supplements to maximize fat loss. I know the supplements are a complete waste unless the rest of my fitness is in line. (And even then, it is arguable if they work at all but I am willing to give it a go.) But I already bought them, so I don't want to waste them ;)

So my plan calls for 6 meals a day, sometimes to be preceded by 1/2 hour or so with some supplements and/or vitamins and some to be taken concurrently with the meal.

My procrastination issue here is 2 fold. I am not naturally inclined to eat in the morning, so it takes real discipline to get me to eat. Even if I missed meals the day before and by all rights I should be hungry, morning eating is not my thing.

Even when I make it up and out the door to do my fasted cardio (which works great for me as I don't like to eat in the AM anyway), when I come back I always "find something else to do first) before I eat my breakfast--so I start late, sometimes by 2 hours or more (like I am 2 hours late now) and then the rest of the day is all messed up.
So one goal is to report if I started my food for the day timely.

The other issue is for me to do my weekly shop on Saturday and prepare my food for the week on Sunday. If I do that, I much better to go for the week.

But I am always doing something like postponing my shop until Sunday..and then I am too tired to fix both my lunch meals for the week and my dinner meals for the week. And then a lot of food goes to rot.

So if I report, I am hoping I will stick to schedule.

My lunch meals prep is to make salads into separate containers and pre-cook and pre-pack the meats and fish (lean Pork, chicken thigh with skin, or fresh tuna fish with a tiny piece of Brie type cheese) I am going to eat with the salad so I can just grab and go each AM. And also to try to remember to get my dressings into those little containers I bought for just this, so I don't have to think about preparing them during the week.

My dinner meals for the week consist of:

1. a weeks worth of a "vegetable melange" I made up that comports with my macronutrients (red and yellow peppers, onion, baby carrots, snow peas, all organic and a homemade sauce I buy at Whole Foods that is made fresh by the cook each week.). The melange is the same each week but the main vegetable changes: broccoli one week, green beans the next, asparagus a 3rd week, etc. and the sauce I use changes every week (from the same guy.) I divide that up into 6 small containers for a grab and go for days I have to eat dinner at work (which I don't have to over the summer) or grab and re-heat at home. Certain days I have a little extra starch in the form of a small portion of multigrain rice (cooked with scallions and mushrooms --- mmm) or sweet potato or yam. That gets pre-cooked and measured out and pre-packed for the week as well.

The seventh day is my cheat meal.

2. Protein: This consists of grass-fed lean beef, lean leg of lamb meat, skinless chicken breast or lean seafood. I cook some to eat fresh on one night with enough left over for the next night so I can grab it and go when I have to pack in my dinner as well.

I also have half a banana every day for potassium to ward off night leg cramps. Potassium supplements don't seem to work. :confused:

Breakfast is cooked fresh each morning: eggs and egg whites or organic sausage, or lox with a small amount of cream cheese (garlic and herb boursin, actually) with some tomato and cucumber. (That last one is a favorite!!! :nod: but I can only have that sparingly.) I may have some plain decaf coffee either before I do cardio or with a smalll amount of cream after breakfast. But I often skip that.

My other meals are protein shakes, sometimes with flax oil, almonds or a dex/protein shake for a PWO. I think I have to get them prepared in advance on my cooking Sunday into the contaners I need so it is also grab and go during the week. I keep protein powder, a mixer and flax oil in my office so I don't have to worry about that.

Finally the water....That takes a lot of work for me. I aim towards 16 glasses (a gallon) but honestly, I can't make it. When I am at my best I can drink 12 glasses. I drink 16 oz (2 glasses) at a time, 6 times a day. I cut up one fresh lemon into fourths and squeeze that into four of the 16 oz glasses I drink: one at breakfast, one mid morning, one after lunch and one sometime before dinner. I drink 1 16 oz plain before I go do cardio and one plain sometime after dinner. And then I am done. I do buy bottled water of brand I like the taste of. Right now it is the Glaceau Smart water. It used to be the orange label Trinity water--which I looove the taste of :drool: , but it has so many natural minerals, it is not good to driun more than a liter a day. For a while I was switching between Glaceau and Trinity but it was too much work remembering--so now I just drink Glaceau--which tastes pretty good.

So there is a general outline of my plan. :cool:

SO today is a completely off day. Memorial day. No cardio, gym closed. I spent my morning writing thses posts and did not eat my breakfast first--my typical procrastination. :D

Well I will go now to eat breakfast and continue through the day.

Neewbie looking for a challenger Justitia. Looking to go the whole nine and report everyday. Help!!!!!!!!!


Jenn

Neewbie looking for a challenger Justitia. Looking to go the whole nine and report everyday. Help!!!!!!!!!


Jenn

You can do it, Jenn..... :nod:

Just post what you want of your food,vitamins, supps, water intake that you want. (Doesn't have to be specific.) Then just check in daily here and tell us how you did for the day. :tu:

Well, yesterday I got all my food in except for part 1 of the dinner of the 6 meals--I was out the protein for that meal. It is supposed to be meal number 5 and I take some supps with it. But I just lost my appetite. So I reversed it, to have a protein shake meal but still by the time I should have eaten the last meal, I just wanted to eat the carbs and not the protein. I got all my supps and vitamins in except for the supps for the dinner meal. I also got in 9 glasses of water, 3 short for me.

I did however successfully resist the Belgian chocolates I brought back for my SO (significant other) which he left here. Also he bought a pecan roll from his trip to Georgia, which I ate my portion last week (instantly :drool: ) but he left half of his portion here as well.

And they are still there in the fridge. So I feel success from that

Today is not going so hot either in terms of food. I went to do my fasted cardio late in the AM, so my breakfast was late and now so is my lunch.

But hopefully by the end of the day in two hour intervals I will have most of my food in. (and water too!)

Again, another day, no dinner. I don't understand. The rest of my food is fine. I am now out of some supplements and waiting for Kent to fill in my order, some stuff is backlooged there. So that feels off.

But overall, even though I know I am not doing things perfectly, I am pretty happy with my food, I am not cheating (or not much--a bite of chocolate on a couple of days -- from Belgium :D ) and my weight is going down. I probably don't need so much food as my weight workouts are not happening, I probably will wait until Mondy to try and start again. Muscle pull in right leg is bothering me.

I am still open to anyone joining me in this challenge!!

Yesterday a day of anerexia--too tired to get out of bed, to workout, to eat. Personal relationship conflict in evening that did not end well. Only had a couple of protein shakes late in the evening w/ a Tblsp of Flax seed oil. Went to bed early, had a good night sleep, food started late today but on target. Also with supps and water. Feel a lot of energy today.

yesterday evening was Saturday, my cheat day. It consisted of a small dinner roll with a food plan dinner, a small box of sno-caps at the movies and a couple of dunkin donuts :rolleyes: afterwards (instead of my usual protein shake and almonds.) I am surprised but I don't feel bloated this morning. I'll see what that does when I weigh next Saturday.

Late night last night, late start today... so food will be shifted late to day.