Space's Diet Journal

[Space]

I am starting a new diet journal after 4 weeks break. Again my goal is to maintain strict dieting discipline and to lose at least 10 pounds over the next 8 weeks.

My current stats are 5'10" and 176 pounds, estimated BF ~ 18%. I plan to eat ~ 1800 calories a day divided between 5 meals with a macronutrient ratio of 35:45:20 (protein:carbohydrate:fat).

I plan to lift weights twice a week with full body workouts and run 15 minutes daily. Unfortunately this is all that time permits at this stage.

My daily diet which I will follow includes:

Meal 1: Oats with 1 scoop of casein

Meal 2: Ham steak sandwich

Meal 3: Ham steak sandwich

Meal 4: Ham steak sandwich

Meal 5: Chicken breast, steam vegetables, lentils and cup of vegetable soup

If you have any advice or encouragement to give please don't hesitate to post.

[Trapstar]

If i were you i would throw some variety in there man, thats alot of the same thing.. just my 2 cents

[Space]

DAY 1

1 day without cheating.

1775 calories consumed.

287 calories burned.

Cardio:

15 minutes run

[Space]

If i were you i would throw some variety in there man, thats alot of the same thing.. just my 2 cents

Thanks for the comment. It's good advice!

I think I can handle ham sandwiches for lunch every day but dinner tends to get a little tiresome. Perhaps I can work out a different dinner menu to keep things going.

[Space]

DAY 2

2 days without cheating.

1775 calories consumed.

287 calories burned.

Cardio:

15 minutes run

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DAY 3

3 days without cheating.

1877 calories consumed.

287 calories burned.

Cardio:

15 minutes run

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DAY 4

4 days without cheating.

1775 calories consumed.

134 calories burned.

Cardio:

30 minutes walk

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DAY 5

5 days without cheating.

1800 calories consumed.

287 calories burned.

Cardio:

15 minutes run

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DAY 6

6 days without cheating.

2096 calories consumed.

287 calories burned.

Cardio:

15 minutes run

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DAY 7

0 days without cheating.

~2500 calories consumed.

287 calories burned.

Cardio:

15 minutes run

I broke dieting discipline today and consumed too much bread because I didn't feel like cooking.

[Space]

DAY 8

1 days without cheating.

1655 calories consumed.

287 calories burned.

Cardio:

15 minutes run

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DAY 9

0 days without cheating.

~3000 calories consumed.

287 calories burned.

Cardio:

15 minutes run

I broke dieting discipline again today. I couldn't sleep and felt I needed to eat something. It's really unacceptable and I am renewing my commitment today. I have to motivate myself to put the effort in to cook rather than snack on bread and butter. On the plus side I haven't been eating any real cheat food, so it's not a matter of cravings, but laziness.

[Space]

DAY 9

1 day without cheating.

~1800 calories consumed.

287 calories burned.

Cardio:

15 minutes run

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DAY 10

0 day without cheating.

~2500 calories consumed.

287 calories burned.

Cardio:

15 minutes run

Again I broke discipline because I hadn't bought the proper foods. This is a problem I need to get on top of because I find once I begin to break discipline it's very difficult to renew my focus and get a good streak going again. Tomorrow I guess...

[Space]

DAY 11

0 day without cheating.

~2500 calories consumed.

Today was a false start. I had no groceries for my prepared meals and I had to eat whatever I could find. No cardio either!

[Space]

DAY 12

1 day without cheating.

1772 calories consumed.

287 calories burned.

Cardio:

15 minutes run