Today I am 82 days out from my first show. This past week - actually the past few weeks - have been stressful. Balancing working full time, training, cooking and competition prep in general is a lot. While it would be great to do Bodybuilding full-time wearing sneakers and stretchy workout clothes everyday - God knows that's my ultimate dream, it is unfortunately not my currently reality. I am at work most days from 9-10 hours and after work I usually go home and decompress for a few hours, sometimes doing nothing and sometimes napping before I go to the gym. I'm at the gym around 8:30pm-9pm for a little over a hour. The home to shower and eat one last meal before bed.
I actually started my prep many months out to gradually work into it. It started back in March when the Boss eliminated sweets and milk products from my diet. This was not so hard for me because I am not a fan of milk and chocolate is only an issue during that "special time" of the month.
I am currently eating around 2,000 calories a day and my diet consists of chicken, turkey, fish, eggs, rice and vegetables. I eat approximately 5-6 meals a day and I am currently drinking about 6 liters of water a day (yes I am best friends with the bathroom). Until a couple of weeks ago, I was eating still the same amount of calories, but the mix of carbohydrates, protein and fats were much different. I am not so close tracking with macros. I was eating at least 200g of protein a day and about 400-500g of rice. In the last couple of weeks, the rice portion has been reduced significantly to start with 200g rice a day for a week, and for the last two weeks 150g of rice a day. I'll get more to that in the next session. The reduction in rice has definitely started to bring on the cravings for sweets/chocolate.
Training
Before prep, I was training 4 days a week and doing no cardio. I am currently training 5 days a week and doing cardio 4 of those days for 20 minutes. Since I have issues still with my feet from basketball, I do HIIT training 2 of the days and the other tow days fast walking on the treadmill. Since the goal is no longer muscle building but fat loss and "cutting" I lift heavy in my main lifts - bench press, squats, chin-ups, shoulder press and rowing. The lifts are going good, I started feeling the effects of the reduced rice this week, especially on leg day. My energy levels through my lifts are up and down but I'm still having strong lifts and haven't lost any strength - and that's a relief.
Weight
I weigh myself every day. And I must say that this is probably one of the most frustrating and irritating parts of this journey. I weighed in this morning at 78.9kg, after being just Friday at 77.7kg. This has been the case every week. My weight comes down every week and goes back up every week not having changed anything.
We will see what this next week has to unfold and continue moving forward towards the goal. I've come too far to give up now.
Here are some pics from May 16th (red top) to last week, July 28th (green top), and a few pics from today (pink top).
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