I wear medium to look like I lift, food log.

[ProfessorX]

Straight into my story.

As of January 21 I'm attending school everyday from 7:30 to 4 as an apprentice carpenter up till November 26. I've also been working in a sports bar for 2 years now for 30+ hours a week on top of it. Last summer I was looking into moving to a new job because the one I had me a little less than pleased. About a month and a half ago a job I had applied to last summer called back and offered me a job as a waiter in their burger bar. It's a cool place and I love it, I gave 2 week notice but for the past few weeks I been going to school + working well above 90 hours a week. It got me real tired and lost in the gym and diet wise, I didn't have any time to go to the gym nor prepare meals ahead of time.

In theory, this week SHOULD be the last week I work 2 jobs at once, I figured this would be the best time ever to get a grip of my diet and training all together and get back on good track and get back the 7 pounds I lost and climb back to 200lbs.


According to a poster here ( forgot the name ) and a method to customize your diet, I came down to these numbers.

Calories to attain daily: 3,500
Protein to attain daily: 250g

I tried before to log my food, many times. I think I may have failed all these times because I'd try to make everything solid all at once and then would feel discouraged or lost, trying to count carbs, fat, protein, calories, water intake etc etc...

Right now I got a few goals in mind:
-Monitor my protein
-Monitor my calories
-Go back to 200lbs ( In a 2 month window )
-Get to 220-225 lbs by the end of my class (November 26, 8 or so months from today).

I'm pretty much just going to focus on these for now, as things go on and I start being consistent and comfortable writing down my protein and calories, I'll start adding in other important stuff such as fat, carbs etc. Hell, I might even get down to monitoring my gawd damned vitamin A.

Stats as of today (with pics):
Weight: 192
Age: 22
Height: 6ft 1/2in

Not the best pictures but... It'll do I guess. I don't really know how I'll update this with pics. Maybe I'll update monthly, every other month... maybe only on November 26.. we'll see how it goes.

 

[ProfessorX]

April 5, 2013

Meal 1
250ml whole milk 160 cal, 9P
250ml egg whites 120 cal, 28P
250ml oats 180 cal, 6P
125ml ice cream 190 cal, 2P
126g frozen berries 70 cal, 1P

720 cal, 46P

Meal 2
3 eggs 210 cal, 21P
Pistachios (50g) 310 cal, 13P

520 cal, 34P

Meal 3
3 eggs 210 cal, 21P
Drinkable yogurt 150 cal, 5P

360 cal, 26P

Meal 4
250g chicken 275 cal, 60P
2 slices of bread 180 cal, 6P

455 cal, 66P

Meal 5 (drank it through my workout)
1L chocolate milk 640 cal, 28P

640 cal, 28P

Meal 6
250ml whole milk 160 cal, 9P
125ml ice cream 190 cal, 2P
1 Tbsp peanut butter 100 cal, 2P
1 scoop whey 135 cal, 21P
1 banana 120 cal, 1P

705 cal, 35P

This day puts me up at 3400 cal and 235P.

Not quite 3500, I'll go hit a drinkable yogurt and grab a spoon of peanut butter then call it a day.

I'm questioning my actual calorie needs cause this seems awfully low. I confess, I'm a real gamer, I play league of legends all day. My gaming addiction is making me so lazy, I was so into gaming today that I actually felt too lazy to make mashed potatoes or rice to accompany my chicken I just picked up 2 slices of bread because I just didn't want to waste time to play another game. It's awful.

Either way, I'll hop on the scale in a few days from now, let's make it 10 or 14 days... we'll see if I make any progress. If not I'll bump up my calories, if it's going well I'll keep it going like it is even if I'm not expecting much changes. I felt hunger all day, barely ate that I was wishing that at the end of the day I'd manage to hit 3500 and 250 protein, it actually came in pretty easily. If I would of actually gotten up off my arse and managed to make some decent meals I could've easily hit 4-5k calories with potatoes, rice etc.

Either way, not gonna hate, numbers are numbers.. Potatoes, rice, bread, pasta, chicken, candy, milk be it skim, whole, partly skimmed... All that matters to me at the end of the day is that I get numbers, and at the end of the week, the numbers increase. Going to leave it at that for today, we'll see what the scale says in 2 weeks.

 

[ProfessorX]

April 6, 2013

Meal 1
Sausage mcgriddle 550 cal, 24P

550 cal, 24P

Meal 2
50g pistachios 310 cal, 13P

310 cal, 13P

Meal 3
250ml whole milk 160 cal, 9P
125ml ice cream 190 cal, 2P
1 Tbsp peanut butter 100 cal, 2P
1 scoop whey 135 cal, 21P
1 banana 120 cal, 1P

705 cal, 35P

Meal 4
3x double cheese burgers 1260 cal, 72P

1260 cal, 72P

Meal 5
Chicken junior x2 780 cal, 26P

780 cal, 26P

Total 3605 cal, 170P

I barely made it today, was on the run all day and couldn't really get my stuff together, tomorrow should be a similar day, so I need to prepare myself better. Too bad it's 1 A.M and I just got off my shift. I did cook 6 eggs for tomorrow and I cooked a few chicken breasts like 7 or 8. I'll pack these up with some trail mix and munch on em through the day at work. It's easy since I work in a restaurant I can just order a side of carb like potatoes or something.

Not quite the target I aimed for with protein, well bellow the 200 but I didn't train today and I probably won't train tomorrow so I guess it's not SO bad. Anyway it's the whole point of this log, getting better.

 

[ProfessorX]

April 7, 2013

Meal 1
Sausage Mcgriddlex2 1100 cal, 48P

1100cal, 48P

Meal 2
Trailmix x2 portions 560 cal, 18P

560 cal, 18P

Meal 3
6 hardboiled eggs 420 cal, 36P

420 cal, 36P

Meal 4
2 hardboiled eggs 140 cal, 12P

140 cal, 12P

Meal 5
85g Pasta 300 cal, 12P
200g ground beef 440 cal, 40P

740 cal, 52P

Total 3240 cal, 154P

Fell short this day again, I like to use the excuse that I wasn't training today to make myself feel less guilty on not hitting calories and protein but that just procrastinating. I need to hit those numbers better for the next few days. One thing that I hate the most about gaining mass is stepping on the scale after a couple days of feeling like I do ok diet wise just to realize I didn't go up in weight. I still plan on weighing myself in a few days from now, hopefully I'll gonna make some weight gain. Going to work harder on getting food in.

 

[ProfessorX]

April 8, 2013
Meal 1
250ml whole milk 160 cal, 9P
125ml ice cream 190 cal, 2P
1 Tbsp peanut butter 100 cal, 2P
1 scoop whey 135 cal, 21P
1 banana 120 cal, 1P

705 cal, 35P

Meal 2
Trailmix x2 portions 560 cal, 18P

560 cal, 18P

Meal 3
Pasta, 85g 300 cal, 12P
250g chicken 275 cal, 60P

575 cal, 72P

Meal 4
2 hard boiled eggs 140 cal, 12P
1 banana 120 cal, 1P

260 cal, 13P

Meal 5
250ml whole milk 160 cal, 9P
125ml ice cream 190 cal, 2P
1 Tbsp peanut butter 100 cal, 2P
1 scoop whey 135 cal, 21P
1 banana 120 cal, 1P

705 cal, 35P

Meal 6
Trailmix x2 portions 560 cal, 18P

Meal 7
La Boeuf, some burger from my new workplace, I don't know any of the nutritional fact but honestly I think (before I even made any calculations) that I met my cal/P ratio for the day so unless I figure otherwise after my maths, I'm not even going to bother guesstimating it.

Total 3365 cal, 191P.

I uploaded the pic of that burger, this thing is super good. Kaiser bun, 100% ground beef patty with queso, jalapeno, hot peppers, whole grain tostitos and probably some other stuff I don't recall. This thing def kicks my ratio to something closer to 4kcal/220P which makes me happy. ( didn't eat anything but the burger and the pickle ).

I work as a waiter right now and this new restaurant has only been open for 1 year, everything in these is new so I'm definitely going to try and taste some stuff as I work and I guess I'll post the food for the people who's interested. Anyway, for a first review, this burger was Bomb/10.

 

[ProfessorX]

April 9, 2013
Meal 1
250ml whole milk 160 cal, 9P
125ml ice cream 190 cal, 2P
1 Tbsp peanut butter 100 cal, 2P
1 scoop whey 135 cal, 21P
1 banana 120 cal, 1P

705 cal, 35P

Meal 2
85g Pasta 300 cal, 12P
200g ground beef 440 cal, 40P

740 cal, 52P

Meal 3
85g Pasta 300 cal, 12P
200g ground beef 440 cal, 40P

740 cal, 52P

Meal 4
1 cup trailmix 840 cal, 27P

840 cal, 27p

Meal 5
Hardboiled eggs x4, 280 cal, 24P

280 cal, 24P

 

[CobraKAI]

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