MakanBacons Journal

[MakanBacon]

Hi there! I'm new to this website and this is the first post i've ever made But I have decided to start a journal to keep me honest over the next few months about what I eat,

Background info:

age:20

weight:53-54kgs (goal weight..apparently i should be about 45 kgs?!)

height:159cm

body fat= something ridiculously high probably...a few months ago i was 32 and got down to 27 but thats probably changed

my usual diet consists on

breakfast: oats, banana and water

snack; yoghurt and dried apricots

snack; muesli bar (just the mother earth baked apricot/apple sticks) sometimes those vita weat snack things.

lunch; chicken salad with frozen veges (prepared the night before) and an orange

snack; i usually get sushi/or an up and go or something but i know I have to stop having this)..this is usually the time that I go and grab a chocolate bar or flavoured milk (primo) or anything

dinner; usually just meat and veges with cottage cheese (lite) and hummus or something

snack; this time of day is also hard for me eating wise. on a good day il have yoghurt (diet lite yoplait range) and fruit. on a bad day.... well lets just say i am a tiny bit of a chocolate addict.

workout wise-i go to the gym pretty much every day. and lately the past few months i've only been doing cardio cause i just wanted to loose fat. so i do about an hour of cardio every day and maybe once a week weight training. the cardio i do is usually on the bike. i also do classes at the gym like step or a martial arts inspired cardio class. (they are usually an hour long).

So yea i just thought i would post this up because the amount of time i have spent at the gym this year I should definitely have made more progress than i have an I know the only reason I haven't is because I always cave to my sweet tooth cravings. and I was reading another forum about someone that once they have one piece of chocolate or lollies or whatever they have to have it ALL. well thats pretty much what I'm like and Im thinking I should do my best to eliminate choc and lollies completely from my diet?

Anyways would be great to have some feedback and if there's info I have missed out let me know

Also my goal is to just have a much lower body fat percentage and also to get rid of the excess fat around my stomach. (that has been literally impossible for me to loose)

but yep would so appreciate it if you let me know what you think? :S

[MakanBacon]

oh I also put protein powder in my porridge every day...

[poos_n_wees]

Welcome to the forums! Great to have another workout journal \:D/

Good luck with this.. will definitely be watching your progress :nod:

I should definitely have made more progress than i have an I know the only reason I haven't is because I always cave to my sweet tooth cravings. and I was reading another forum about someone that once they have one piece of chocolate or lollies or whatever they have to have it ALL. well thats pretty much what I'm like and Im thinking I should do my best to eliminate choc and lollies completely from my diet?

That would probably be the best start. Out of sight, out of mind right? I know this 'cos I've got that all or nothing-type personality as well. I can't just have ONE chip. I keep going until I can see the bottom of the packet :oops:

[MakanBacon]

Journal from yesterday

Got up at 3am to leave for the snow so:

Snack: banana and mother earth apricot stick muesli bar

Breakfast: muesli and yoghurt

snack-while snowboarding; mother earth apricot stick muesli bar

Lunch; Vege panini thing (with pumpkin yum!) (we were up at the slopes and all the food there was shite so that was the healthiest and most fulfilling thing i could find)

Snack; Apple

Snack; Pear

Dinner; 1/2 salmon with veges and cottage cheese

Snack; tiny bit of yoghurt (yoplait diet lite)

I can see there's not much protein in this days diet at ALL :naughty: , but my excuse is that I was limited because of the wole snow trip thing.

Exercise:

Snowboarding for 5 hours \:D/

[teamfatboy]

So yea i just thought i would post this up because the amount of time i have spent at the gym this year I should definitely have made more progress than i have an I know the only reason I haven't is because I always cave to my sweet tooth cravings. and I was reading another forum about someone that once they have one piece of chocolate or lollies or whatever they have to have it ALL. well thats pretty much what I'm like and Im thinking I should do my best to eliminate choc and lollies completely from my diet?

Heya, and welcome

Yep, fat loss is down to diet and cardio.... there ain't nothing else to it. Of course, weights a) count as cardio; and b) tone, shape and build the underlying muscle so that when you reveal it, it's worth revealing (not that I have much experience of that last bit :grin:)

I'm like you in that a single piece will unleash what I'd call a "metabolic storm" in that it destabilises me, and it takes concentrated "Won't power" to get back to stability. Whether it's hormonal, physiological or psychological, doesn't matter, I have learned/ am learning that the ONLY way for me to shed bodyfat (endo/mesomorph) is to go hi-protein, low-carb, set a calorie deficit and STICK TO IT.

Your programme will probably benefit from some fine tuning - like looking at the relative timing of meals and workout... and a breakdown of the protein/Carb ratios in meals.

Instant 'quick wins' - replace that choccie bar/Primo with a protein shake; replace the apricots with almonds, and replace the late night snack with a casein or whey shake.

How much coffee or cola/soft drink are you going throughm, and how much water?

[MakanBacon]

Hi! thanks for the feedback!

I'm like you in that a single piece will unleash what I'd call a "metabolic storm" in that it destabilises me, and it takes concentrated "Won't power" to get back to stability

Its good to know there's a few of us out there that are like this! haha. and that I am not alone! lol

Instant 'quick wins' - replace that choccie bar/Primo with a protein shake; replace the apricots with almonds, and replace the late night snack with a casein or whey shake.

I used to eat a lot of almonds but then cut them out completely cause I used and abused my eating of them! cause i checked the calorie content of them and saw its pretty high. how much do you recommend eating-like a small handful right?

And I just finished my container of protein so will have to buy another one soon...just trying to decide what flavour i want! :nod:

How much coffee or cola/soft drink are you going throughm, and how much water?

I don't drink coffee of soft drink ever. So I guess that's one thing I'm doing right The only liquid I really drink is water (I have about 3 or 4 bottles a day-but I know I have to drink more) and milk (in the form of up and go or primo :shifty: )

Your programme will probably benefit from some fine tuning - like looking at the relative timing of meals and workout... and a breakdown of the protein/Carb ratios in meals.

In terms of my gym programme. I have am going to book in for another programme at the gym for next friday focusing on weights and fat loss so that shall be good for me,

Oh and this is DAY TWO of not eating any lollies or choc or anything like that. haha. It's the season of 21sts as well so It's going to be so hard resisting the birthday cake every saturday!

I'll post my journal from today later on tonight or tommorow morning

[MakanBacon]

Journal from Day 3

Breakfast; oats, banana and protein powder, couple of bites of melon.

Snack; Apple, mother earth apricot stick- muesli bar

Lunch; veges and chicken, x2 dried apricots

Snack; A couple of bites of apple but decided I didn't want it-had a late-ish lunch.

Dinner; Lamb, veges, cottage cheese

Snack; Chicken and lettuce (Went out til like 4 in the morning so needed something else to eat- and somehow managed to convince the pita place to give me just chicken and salad haha) :pfft:

Exercise; 1 and a hald hours cardio \:D/ (1 hour step class and half an hour on the bike)

Stretches and abs workout

Comments

Might be getting my new weight training programme today :pray:

Day Three of no lollies and/or choc!

[becbec]

If you can you should take pictures of your meals so we can comment on your serving sizes.

From what you've got there, your diet looks pretty good but most people's down fall (including myself) is portion size

[MakanBacon]

Hey becbec! thanks for your feedback!

If you can you should take pictures of your meals so we can comment on your serving sizes.

Haha when I figure out for to do that i will But I think my portions sizes are quite small though..

ok Journal from day Four

Breakfast: oats (I have about 4-5 teaspoons), protein powder, banana and milk

Lunch; 1/2 Salmon and veges

Snack; The rest of my salmon and veges that I didn't finish

Snack; Apple

Dinner; Chicken salad (Lettuce, cabbage, chicken, mushroom, and yoghurt) With a chai latte (My bf took me out for dinner and it was SO hard resisting dessert! So I made do with a chai! :pfft:

Snack; One piece of sushi at the 21st I went to and I TINY piece of the choc birthday cake. it was tiny and so hopefully not tooooo bad that I had some

Exercise

90 minute spin class and stretches and abs

Comments

Bought some 'slom' mushashi protein powder today and got a new programme.

Day four of no lollies or choc :clap: (minus that tiny bit of choc cake i had)

[MakanBacon]

Bought some 'slom' mushashi protein powder today

Obviously I mean 'slim' ... :pfft:

[CokeBottle]

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welcome :wink:

[MakanBacon]

lol-

Hi cokebottle!

ok...

Journal day Five

Breakfast/lunch(i woke up late); 2 1/2 smal piklets that my mum had made for fathers day

5 teaspoons oats, protein, banana and water

handful of almonds

Snack: Apple

Snack; Protein shake

Pre dinner; couple small bits of lamb with cottage cheese and hummus. Handful of almonds.

Dinner; Chicken, lettuce/carrot/tomato, parsley and pumpkin with cottage cheese and small amount of hummus

Dessert (eek); one small tim tam-honeycomb version. I though I had better admit to this. I just wanted to see what it tasted like cause its a semi new product. But quickley chucked some gum in my mouth after to get rid of the taste and any urge to touch any more chocolate.

Exercise; Walk/run for an hour and a half-around up up mt eden.

Comments;

Beginning weight training tomorrow so a bit excited about that!

[MakanBacon]

late entry

Don't want to add this but kinda have to

Snack: had a catch up with a friend and went to get 'coffee'

I had a berry frappe (which is meant to be 99% fat free) but had a couple of bites of my friends choc cake :naughty: . tiny tiny bites though. eeeek. Am going to the gym in the morn to do my weights session though so that shall be interesting...

[MakanBacon]

Journal Day 6

Breakfast 4 teaspoons of oats, protein, banana, milk, water

Snack : Protein shake (250ml slm strawberry)

Lunch: Chicken, lettuce/carrot/tomato, pumpkin, melon and couple of slices of orange

Snack: Leftover chicken/salad from lunch,

Snack: Apple

Snack: Had a briefing for work and so had a couple of bites of chips :naughty:

Snack: Last bite of chicken/salad from lunch, dried apricots (approx3)

Snack: yoghury (yoplait diet lite)

Dinner: Roast chicken salad from subway (With 2 'low fat' sauces)

Exercise:

Began weight training

X30 Deadlifts (30kg)

X25 monkey bar pullups

X30 squat push ups (with bar)

X20 pressups

Legs;

1st set; 20 kg weights (not sure how heavy bar is)-12 reps

2nd set; 30kg weights-10 reps

3rd set; 40 kg weights-till 'fail'

Abs

Stretches

Cardio;

x3 500m 'sprints' on rowing machine (Took me about 10mins)

40mins on the bike

Comments;

For some reason today I snacked a lot in between lunch and dinner. I'm not sure why...dinner was quite late though, and my lunch wasn't that big-as I ate only half of it. But I'll try and snack less tomorrow!

I'm meant to be doing the weights every second day but cause I was only gettin ginto it today I think I'll do it again tomorrow and up the cardio to an hour! (There's an hour cardio type class I'll go to)

had no choc/lollies today \:D/

[MakanBacon]

not very imp. But forgot I also had a handful of almonds with breaky!

[MakanBacon]

oh and one of my other 'snack's was a mother earth apricot stick muesli bar...WOW i DID snack a lot today. i should perhaps up how much I eat at lunch so I don't get hungry so soon!

[teamfatboy]

Yes, I think you SHOULD stack up what you eat.... :grin:

Seriously, like a lot of folks here you're going to get good at reading the labels on food!

[MakanBacon]

Seriously, like a lot of folks here you're going to get good at reading the labels on food

Haha! yea I am actually pretty good at reading them but I am getting better! But the labels I tend to ignore are the choc ones cause half the time I don't even want to know! haha.

Journal Day 7

Breakfast: 4 teaspoons of oats, protein, banana, milk, water, handful of almonds

Snack : Protein shake (250ml slm strawberry)

Lunch: Chicken, lettuce/carrot/tomato, avocado, hummus, and couple of slices of orange

Snack: Leftover chicken/salad from lunch,

Snack: Apple

Snack: Canned Tuna (in spring water; half of it) and dried apricots

Snack: Mother earth apricot stick

Snack: Apple

Dinner:Lamb and salad (mesculin salad, carrot, tomato, avocado, hummus, cottage cheese)

Snack; argh. went off track tonight :doh: (had chocolate) :shock: . But went to the gym the next day (today) on an empty stomach in an attempt to burn it off)-don't even wanna write what it was cause so annoyed I even ate it! :oops:

Exercise;

X30 Deadlifts (30kg)

X25 monkey bar pullups

X30 squat push ups (with bar)

X20 pressups

Legs;

1st set; 40 kg weights (not sure how heavy bar is)-12 reps

2nd set; 50kg weights-10 reps

3rd set; 75? kg weights-till 'fail'

Abs

Stretches

Cardio;

x4 500m 'sprints' on rowing machine (Took me about 15mins)

one hour on the bike

Comment; left car lights on so when I went down to get it at 7.30pm, by the time AA had come and I had gotten home it was 10pm. Hence the snacking on another apple during that time.

Was sore today (yay)-

[becbec]

Haha my battery went flat the other day too! :shock:

After which meal are you doing your workout?

[MakanBacon]

Haha my battery went flat the other day too!

Argh it is so annoying! haha. I just can't beleive how long it took AA to come !haha. meanwhile I starved lol.

After which meal are you doing your workout?

Oh yea, I should probably write down when I work out. :nod: I work out between breakfast and snack1 (which i guess is usually the protein shake) --(I actually snack so much, I don't know how to not cause I get hungry so often! ) :doh:

[MakanBacon]

Journal Day 8

M1; Breakfast: none

WORKOUT

M2; Protein Shake (chocolate slm 250ml)

M3; PB

M4; Mandarin, orange, chicken and salad (mesculin/carrot/avocado/cucumber/hummus)

M4; Apple and Apricot stick (need to stop eating these)

M5; Apricot stick (Was at work and was starving and only thing in bag)

M6; brown rice, cottage cheese, hummus (also had x2 pinwheel scones :oops: , and couple of squares of organic dark choc :naughty: [i am actually addicted to choc and NEED to stop or I will NOT achieve my goals]

M7; bite of apple (decided I didnt want it)-Chicken/prawns with cottage cheese, hummus and avocado. more choc :doh: (extremely bad day. need to get back on track)

EXERCISE (Dance clasS)

Exercise

A 45 min step class

-half an hour on the bike

-15 mins on rowing machine

-Abs and stretches

-1 hour dance class

Comments

Not a good day. Am gonna get back on track tomorrow. I wasn't even going to write about all the bad stuff I ate today but though I should because I need to be held accountable :S

My muscles are really sore though which is good. Back to weights again tomorrow!

[becbec]

You should only EVER train on an empty stomach if you're doing cardio

Skipping breakfast and then doing weights is a big no-no :naughty:

[MakanBacon]

You should only EVER train on an empty stomach if you're doing cardio

Skipping breakfast and then doing weights is a big no-no

Oh I see-what I meant was that day I did weights I actually had breakfast, just the next day-yesterday (When I just did cardio and no weights) I didn't eat breaky cause I got to the gym at 7am.

I can't really stomach food before 6.30am-7am But when I went to the gym today at 7am(Haven't got journal up for todays entry yet)I forced myself to have a banana before working out.

[MakanBacon]

Journal Day 9

M1 Banana

Workout

M2Protein shake

M3Chicken and salad (mesculin/carrot/cabbage/tomato/avocado/hummus)

M4 Brown Rice, cottage cheese, chicken & salad

M5Leftover chicken & salad with cottage cheese, Apple

M6Chicken satay with cottage cheese and hummus and cabbage/carrot

Exercise

45 min pump class

40 mins treadmill

10mins bike

Abs and stretches

Comments; had a lot of the same food today, but my portion sizes are quite small (prob could have had a bit less for dinner though). And i LOVE cottage cheese mixing it with hummus so thats why I had that with 3 of my meals! :nod:

[MakanBacon]

Journal Day 10

M1; 4 teaspoons oats, banana, milk, water, protein, almonds

WORKOUT

M2; Protein shake

M3; PB

M4; Chicken and salad (Mesculin, carrot, cabbage, hummus, avocado)

M5; Brown rice, cottage cheese, tuna, hummus, avocado, almonds

M6; Salmon, cottage cheese, carrot&cabbage, hummus, avocado

EXERCISE

X30 Deadlifts (10kg plus bar)

X25 monkey bar pullups

X30 squat push ups (with bar)

X20 pressups

Legs;

1st set; 40 kg weights (not sure how heavy bar is)-12 reps

2nd set; 60kg weights-10 reps

3rd set; 80kg weights-till 'fail'-8 Reps

Cardio

20 mins on 9 on teadmill

20 mins on crosstrainer

20 mins interval training on treadmill.

Abs/Stretches

Comments: Am starting to feel skinnier! \:D/