7 days down and 1.7kg lost

hey guys,

I thought I would let you know how my first week went on the diet, as I said previously I have combined two diets that seem to compliment each other ‘Burn the fat feed the muscle’ and ’4 hour body’.

The diets basically lean towards no carbs after lunch eating regularly and always having protein with every meal. Now that is an extremely basic model of the diet so I will give you an idea of what I would eat on a single day with training.

Monday 9th January

Meal 1 – In all the diets this is the most important meal and should be the biggest! I had 3 Poached Eggs, 1 piece of Bacon & Baked beans then  a Muller yoghurt Seeds and cinnamon sprinkled on top. The ’4 Hour Body’ believes you should get 30 grams of protein in your body in this meal. It’s hard to start with but a few days in to it you really look forward to it!

Meal 2 – Protein Shake with a Bannana blitzed up into it, now both books stress you should eat your calories because your body will burn more calories digesting them but in between training it’s not always possible.

Meal 3 – Chicken, Chickpeas, veg with a homemade tomato sauce – this  should be the last meal where you have carbs. Through more reading it seems that most nutritionist are tending to avoid potatoes, pasta & rice all together now and believe beans and pulses are a lot better sauce of fuelling your body!

Meal 4 – Chicken Breast with salad and a home-made dressing – nice and simple this meal, as with all the meals the protein can be substituted for any lean meat or fish.

Meal 5 – Chicken and Some Vegetables – very boring!

A lot of people I speak to say I couldn’t do this or that’s way to much to eat in the morning, my answer is always the same ‘it’s another session!’ now for me this is quite a difficult way to look at food as I love cooking and eating so distance myself and call it another session is difficult but it’s one of the best things my coach has said to me when making weight. We will always do extra training or stretching to get greater benefits within our sport, so why don’t we treat fuelling our bodies in the same way?! It could be the difference between winning and losing!

Training consisted of Interval training – 4 mins running as hard as I can 2 mins rest x 4 sets – then Judo technical session.

Unfortunately I have slightly tore my hamstring on Tuesday night training so I have to rest this week which I am really gutted about but it does give me a unique opportunity to see how much the Ice Baths help to lose weight. I’ve done for sessions in the bath since I started so will be interesting to see the results.

What diets do other people follow does anyone have any good lentils, chickpeas etc. recipes – how do people stop the last two meals being boring? I had Last night chicken and veg in a fajita mix and instead of using wraps I used lettuce leaves.

please comment on your thoughts and ideas.

Vince

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