hello. finna start an online journal to keep me motivated and to learn.
My stats:

Height 6'2
Weight 205
Age: 20
BF %: 25-30? i don't have a way to know. i'm guessing there.

I eat 10x calories my weight with a 40/40/20 diet. I'm mostly using this journal to keep me going and hopefully to help me stay on track. My main goal is to get my bf % to 10-8 but I end up eating junk food which slows my progess. Last year I started at 240 and used slim-fast to get down to 178. I still had over 20% bf, I could tell. I started eating "normal" and gained 20 pounds back but started the 40/40/20 diet before I went back to 240. I was going to do the CKD diet which I have a good understanding of but I don't have the money to buy the supplements and the right foods. so I am doing the same diet John is on and I am happy with it. I'll probably update this everyday with what I do and what I eat. maybe pics when i'm done. I feel the 40/40/20 diet is perfect for what i'm trying to do, which is build muscle and loss body fat. I wake up at 7:00am, do a workout, eat meals 3 hours apart from each other. I like to be always on my feet so I play basketball everyday and doing various stuff. I hate sitting for long periods at a time. I love learning about fitness and biochemistry and hormones and the science of fitness. so I know a decent amount of stuff but I just have a hard time sticking to the diet. I like lifting and cardio. just staying on the diet which is hard for me. Ok thats enough background info. Today I bought a b3 heart monitor. I'm still trying to figure it out. Welcome me and stuff =D.

Day 2. woke up at 11:00am. ate 3 meals and two protein shakes as meals. did 40 min interval stationary bike. played basketball and rode a mountain bike around my town. drank 1 gallon water. I got drunk on Wed. and that made miss my friday weight workout, I really feel like that sucks. I also would like to thank John Stone for letting me put a online Journal on here. It probably costs money and its probably out of his pocket or not. I asked my mother to buy me a 5lb tub of 100% whey protein from optimum nutrition but they gave her a GNC tub which I didn't really want, so I asked her to get the right one this time but they told her that all protein is the same O_O. wtf is that?? I also don't know how to use my heart rate monitor. I ate a tuna sandwich for protein today but used tabasco sause which ruined it, the tuna and bread felt ruint and tasted like it too. I'll using this ish til I feel I don't need it. which is probably til i'm 10% whenever i figure out how to measure myself.

11:11 am. I want to wake up like around 7:00am so I could drink a protein shake and exercise before I eat a first meal but when I drank one Wed. it slowed my motivation to do that. Now I woke up at 10:30 to eat right away, which leaves me without a workout. after my oatmeal and egg white omelet i'm going to play basketball for an hour. There isn't much to do in a small town. I also missed a meal yesterday due to my sleeping in when made me hungry before I slept so I ate fries and gravy and cookies to make up for it. :o Well I have a new week to try to make perfect. I also weigh 205 this morning. GAH.

10:58 pm. man, today was a mess. I don't even want to tell you what I ate because i'd depress you. pizza, cookies. but only because drinking made me depressed so even when I would eat I would feel like I wouldn't get energy from it. i'd feel bummed out and wouldn't even workout. =/ . I used my time these last few days to realize that the only way I could see if this diet is working is to use the scale, instead of the way better bf% way. I don't have a way to find out my bf% so nuts to that. scale it is. I'll only be weighing myself on sunday mornings so i'll have to have a perfect week of eating (clean) to see if this works. I didn't want to use the scale because I was taught that bf% is a better way to measure whether you're losing weight right. This is way more complex than slim-fast. ok thats enough useless talk.

I was too lazy to update yesterday but I got in two good days of eating. Not really much to say but the chicken I cooked today wasn't cooked enough. you can figure the rest out by yourself. wow

This is proving to be harder than I first thought. It seems some people around me would rather me be not fit then not. but i'm passed that. in otha newz, i have to find excel so I could use John's way to keep track of what he eats. I don't at the moment, but I have a pre-planned day sheet with what I eat and such. And also finds ways to do the 40/40/20 diet with different carbs. Hard indeed. And I was reading that thread in Fat Loss about 200g of protein a day is too much and isn't needed. now I don't know what to do. this is confusing cause I don't like sitting on the computer all day looking for the "perfect" diet. I thought the 40/40/20 diet was perfect. =( oh well i'm sure its good enough for now, it has to be. People say i'm good at basketball now. I eat healthy and it gives me enough energy to do lots. the only downside of lately was me drinking last week. I still feel like that bums me out, and I don't have the "drive" I used to. don't drink or do drugs for people that don't. but i'm tired of the debate of drugs. That's all of this fitness bug that bit me. Also I think I found a way around junk food, which is my vice =D. It just tastes too damn good. I'll get over it. Laters my friends.

hola, reader. damn sry if you like reading this and I haven't updated. If you want to ask me a question, just ask in here, or pm me. I've eaten good all week until today when I didn't have a protein shake this morning due to me thinking I was sick, I did have a sore throat so I decided that I would workout in the evening. boy that was a bad decision. I ate a muffin thats not apart of my diet to try to make up for that missed protein shake, which led to me wanting it to be my cheat meal day (one meal). I ate chocolates and oatmeal cookies, it was hard to stop, but I won't eat like that anymore, I hated the feeling of fat being stored on my body =(. so no more missing any clean meals even if i'm sick. btw I'm glad I was able to lift this evening. I also did a bike ride around my little town which took 70 mins, half against the wind =\. That was fun, i'll probably do it again to see how I feel next time. ugh I missed skinless,boneless chicken for those cookies, wtf? I also realized that this bodybuilding hobby needs more attention to the knowledge part of it. I need to read on how to lift with good form. when I lifted today I was doing hack squats and straight legged deadlifts all wrong, but I kept thinking I don't have the knowledge, blah. I need a new routine also, the one i'm doing is too short. the wanna be big.com routine, not enough exercises. That's all everyone, I promise I'll update everyday, with good news of me eating clean. I was scared to update to tell you that I ate junkfood. but that was last week. this was a clean week so far. :gl: in your guys' quest to a better body, I know i'm having fun =)

Haven't been eating clean for the past couple days. It was because once I had a couple chocolates here and there it was hard to stop. mostly because I really didn't feel it was too bad. now I have lived through that I know a little more about myself and my cravings. I know I'm just making excuses to myself on how to try as little as possible but I'm passed that now. My new thing is to see how many days I could go clean eating. starting tomorrow, but today i'll eat clean for the rest of the day. I needed something to really make me want to and watching Pumping Iron really made me want to lift weights. sometimes I wonder why i'm there but that really made me want to lift weights. so I lifted weights after I didn't this morning because I'm too tired to wake up in the mornings. I'm the type of person where if it isn't perfect, why even bother. I'm trying to fix that. Also i'm trying to get microsoft excel off of my brother so I could keep a food log which I know would help. I just know. I did it before with pen and paper but I got tired of writing the same thing everyday. thats right i eat the same meals everyday. but i'm slowly trying to get new meals into the mix. This is hard. and I also want to be as big as possible. without steriods. this should be interesting. I first want my bf% to be 10 before I start bulking because I want to know how to bulk with minimal fat. more researching ensues. my advice to everyone is to read as much bodybuilding information as possible for yourself and when people want to know how you did it. There's lots to know. thats all everyone, you can listen or not. I only want a journal to kick my ass into doing it. I'll be starting tomorrow to see how long I could eat clean. so expect daily updates even if its just a couple lines. later.

Still haven't been eating very clean but I "gave up" junk food all together for the rest of the year today. I've been reading alot of information on fitness about lifting and diets. almost all day was reading. I plan to see how many days I can go with "clean" eating, and also plan to use a spreadsheet to log my food. I read this and it was pretty interesting. 80 things I have learned (http://www.wannabebig.com/article.php?articleid=133) . I notice this forum when dieting pays close attention to the science part of dieting, while other bodybuilding forums are more general. I like many forums and many magazines for different opinions and draw my own conclusions. Eating very poorly is my worse enemy in this fat loss journey. I like doing cardio and weights but my poor eating habits from when I was young is biting me in the ass while trying to do this. still the more I do it the more I learn about myself. tomorrow is a new week. chris rock has a new HBO special at 12:00am. later all.

once again. All I know is that i'm starting to treat this fat loss diet the way a bodybuilder would cut up for his competition. i'm getting that serious :tucool: . I also came to the conclusion that I plan to buy the "swoledup2" diet from "swolecat" once i'm down in bf% because I imagine I don't have any idea how to bulk with keeping bf to a minimum. usually guys bulk and add tons of bf with the muscle. I don't want that =(. ok thats enough. cya.

hey man, I've come to the conclusion that the all natural peanut butter diet is for me. O_O you might say. well its a CKD style diet which I studied before all this diet craze. and I know alot about it so i'm going to use it. don't ask me about it cause I don't want to explain it to you. if you wanna know about it research yourself. soo this will be my "what its like for a guy to be on the ANPB diet". its perfect. holla. omg starting as soon as I could get the peanut butter and whey and supplements and training routine down. then its soo long body fat. heh. til next time hooligans. hell yeah.

This is my last update. I'm sorry if you wanted to read a success story. I've been at this diet stuff for most of the year and I find myself reading and not applying myself enough. I thought an online journal where people could read your stuff would be a good thing to try. It wasn't a bad run, but I don't plan to give up. I'll probably always be trying to lose bodyfat and trying to build muscle. later.. :cool:
oh and I also found out why I like junk food so much, cause of the slim-fast diet i did. I regret it. later

bringing it back. tomorrow will be the start of week 1 of the ANPB diet. i weight 240, i have no way of knowing my bf%. hey hey

started the ANPB diet today. tho i will run out of my current protein by sunday, i have to find a way to get another bucket. I weigh 245 this morning. and had 2 shakes so far. I also saw 2 UFO's last night, there's no way a human aircraft could fly into deep space like that at that speed. O_O