so i haven’t updated my log in a while.
i’ve now been working with paul carter for 2 weeks and i thought i’d compile a small diary to tell you guys sort of what he’s had me do so far.
first of all, paul told me the first step would be to lose fat so i could be lean enough to get the most out of a mass gaining phase. so, i’ve now been dieting for 14 days and i have already seen some pretty impressive results. i won’t reveal the whole meal plan or training program but i’ll post some pics of my meals and logs of my training sessions.
first some thoughts:
repetitiveness
albeit i was already used to eating similar things every day, this is the first time i’ve followed i plan where i eat exactly the same things day in, day out. when i saw the meal plan, my first thought was, “man i’m never going to be able to stick with this.” but quite honestly, when i’m set on something i become a machine, so from the get go i stuck with the plan and i haven’t failed one single meal.
eating the same meals every day has its advantages: first of all, it removes the guesswork. i don’t have to wonder what i’m going to eat when i’m at school or out with friends, because that’s taken care of.
second, you eventually learn to enjoy even the meals you don’t like a lot. now i am grateful for every meal and just eating feels great, even if some of the things aren’t the best tasting. every time i sit down and eat my due meal, i know i’m a meal closer to my goal, and that feels great.
food quality
this is a big one. i’ve always been a proponent of flexible dieting because it looked better to me. with this plan being the opposite of flexible dieting, i’ve had a chance to see for myself what it’s like to eat very high quality food.
i’m spending lots of money on food each week to follow this plan, as it’s composed by lean meats, various types of good fats, and relatively expensive items like blueberries. but, i’m feeling great. way better than i was, despite the fact that i was already eating better than most normal, non obsessive people. and as you’ll see from the pics at the end of this post, progress has been great as well, and i am convinced much of that is due to the amount of high quality food i’ve been consuming
meal prepping
although i don’t do a whole lot of meal prepping per se, outside of cooking rice for 3-4 days ahead and storing it in the fridge, this diet has taught me to be more “regimented” when it comes to my groceries.
after having bought more than 4 kg of meat, my freezer now looks like this:
every day i remember to unfreeze the chicken and steak for the next day, and i make sure i have everything ready for the other meals. during breakfast i put my whey powder into my shaker for mid-morning, at-school snack, and so on.
so here’s some pics of my meals
i’ll also post a couple of logged training sessions later.
but now, here’s the interesting part. progress pics:
week 0
week 1
week 2