Its about 5 p.m. I’m sitting here debating on ending this thing or modifying it. I have a dialog going in my head. It’s becoming very hard for me to drink the protein. Part of that is the mistake of buying 4 jugs of the same flavor. I’m dreading it each time. As I said its 5 p.m. and I’ve had 2 shakes and some peanut butter. I’m going to lose weight but it’s going to be muscle.

I also have this coaching thing coming up. 5 day coaching coarse that is like 12 hours a day. I don’t think I can do that and stay on this diet.

Failure is a part of life, I think I am going to throw in the towel on this. That doesn’t mean I am going to go on a binge, I am going to eat healthy. I am going to supplement with the protein I have. But at this point I have made up my mind that I’m not going to be able to do this for 20 more days.

Gunna go bake some chicken breast and vegetables.

1 week is better than 2 days.

Yesterday was bad, I didn’t do good. Not that I ate anything, I didn’t. But I didn’t follow the plan. I didn’t get enough protein or enough fuel for my body. I only had 3 protein shakes and I added peanut butter to one of them. I’m lucky if it was 1000 calories. I also didn’t drink enough water. I feel like a zombie this morning. I also didn’t really lose anything on the scale either. Hopefully I didn’t cause too much of a setback by not drinking the shakes regular enough. I just felt like crap all day yesterday.

Today I plan on doing better. More shakes and a workout of some sort to make sure things keep moving along.

217.4

I said what I was going to do and I did it. Yesterday was pretty tough. When we got to the mall, everyone decided they were eating at Arby’s. I had brought a protein drink. It was my second one. So I sat there making and drinking my protein while the girls and my brother were nom noming some Arby’s. That Arby’s looked real good. It smelled good too. But I’m sticking this thing out so I drank my shake.

After the movie got over we stopped and picked up a cake and some ice cream for my daughters party. I ended up cutting slices of cake for everyone. And they all had cake and ice cream. I drank another protein drink.

My reward? The scale is back down to what it was the day before my solid meals.

Its actually day 6 but I didn’t write my blog last night so I’m doing yesterdays this morning. Yesterday was a real busy day, I took my daughter out for her birthday. I drank a shake before we left. About two hours later I ate the first solid thing I ate all week, and I decided it was part of my solid meal because I would be eating again in about an hour, so it was kind of to pre-lube things and get them ready. What I ate was a quiche. I think that is good food. An hour later we went to the restaurant and I ordered grilled chicken breast and broccoli. It came with mashed potatoes, so i asked them to replace the potatoes with more broccoli.

When I started eating the quiche I wasn’t all that impressed. I had read blogs about how amazing the first tastes of solid food were after not eating for a while. So I was a bit disappointing. Well, first came my very tiny garden salad which had lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, croutons, some shredded cheese, and Italian dressing (it also came with a roll). I picked off the croutons and gave the role to my daughter. mixed up the rest and took a bite. And I was in instant shock. I immediately pulled the onion out of my mouth and proceeded to take all the onions out of the salad. I guess, for now, I don’t like onions anymore.

The taste of the onions was so amazingly strong it was a shock to me. But I also realized that I didn’t really like it either. I’m a guy who eats just about anything normally. I eat spicy food, I eat onions, I eat garlic (and I can load the garlic on too). So the fact that I didn’t like the onions is no small change.

After picking out the onions I continued eating the salad. It tasted pretty good for a salad. Normally when I eat salad I pretty much just taste the dressing, but I tasted everything. The cheese, the tomatoes, the cucumbers, and even the lettuce (yep it has a taste).

Then they set down my chicken breast with a bed of broccoli. I started off with a piece of broccoli which might have been a mistake. It was the most amazing piece of broccoli I had ever had in my life. It was actually kind of sweet tasting. Normally I can eat some cooked broccoli but it is much easier if it has cheese with it, but I just kept eating the broccoli. And enjoying every second of it.

Let me clarify when I say eating. In the Marine Corps I learned to wolf down some food. I became the fastest eater I know. I could finish a footlong sub in under a minute, and keep in mind I do it without actually trying, I’m not actually racing to eat that fast it just became something I did. The only point in chewing was to get the food into a shape it would pass down my throat without getting stuck. If that took no bits, I didn’t chew. If it took two bites to form it right that’s what the food got. But not today. Today I was chewing. I was loving every single chew. The taste was amazing.

after eating about two thirds of the broccoli I moved on to the chicken breast and had similar results. It was also amazing. I pretty plain grilled chicken breast with some light seasoning and no sauces was amazing. The problem was that I was already full when I started eating it. I forced myself to eat about 3/4 of what was (maybe) a 6 oz chicken breast (it was probably close to 4 it was pretty tiny). I felt like I was going to burst and set the fork down. They brought my daughters $6 ice cream brownie thing, she ate the cherry and a few bites of the brownie. And we went to the movie.

When the movie got over I stopped at GNC and got a $5 bottle of isopure protein. If you don’t know what that is, neither did I. It’s a $5 bottle of 40 grams of protein. No carbs, no fat. Just liquid friggen protein. It’s pretty amazing except the fact it is made with sucrolose. Which is poison. But I needed some protein.

Then last night my mom called and asked if my older daughter could stay at her house. I had to bring her, and she offered to take both daughters out to eat here at the local fry em up burger place since its under new ownership. I said ok and went with them. Checked out the menu and they had a grilled chicken salad. This would be the part where I kind of stumbled on the V-Diet. I ordered it. the menu said it had lettuce tomatoes cheese and grilled chicken. Well there were no tomatoes. And there was a LOT of cheese. But the grilled chicken was good. It also came in an edible cracker/bread, bowl. i of course did not eat the bread bowl thingy. But I had an extra meal I wasn’t supposed to have (or two it you count the quiche).

Whatever. I’m not sweating it. I don’t think I did anything crazy, I didn’t eat a cookie, or drink a soda. i had an extra salad with some cheese in it. Did I follow the V-Diet to the T? Nope. But I’m not really doing that anyway, since I didn’t buy $600 worth of the supplements I was supposed to buy anyway. It’s my own thing. I’m back on protein shakes with some nut butter and flax for the next 6 days. Yes my weight was up a little this morning. It doesn’t even phase me. I’m still down like 5 lbs in 5 days.

Going up to see Battle L.A. with my bro and the older girls today. They are going to eat at burger king or something. I’m gunna drink protein. 200 lbs here I come

Today is wrapping up. It was a better day than yesterday, but it was still a little rough. I’ve been drinking a lot more water each day so I feel better and the headaches have not been as severe (I don’t blame the headaches on the diet they are a part of my life normally without it so I did not bring them up). But when I get dehydrated or don’t drink enough water the headaches are worse.

On the V-diet you eat one solid meal each week. My solid meal will be tomorrow. It is supposed to be a healthy meal. I will eat something that I consider good food (no fried sugary crap). I am taking my daughter out for her birthday so I will most likely eat and enjoy every single bite of that meal with her at a restaurant tomorrow.

I probably need to take more of the fish oil tabs too. So I will start working on that. Going to also order some other flavors of protein. Oh, and I am definitely going to be taking in more fiber (flax seed) because I need it (not going to go into details on this)

As you can see from the graph over on the right, this mornings weight was 219.4

I can’t wait for my solid meal tomorrow.

Almost 3 days down. Or.. 14 shakes (I have 1 left today). Let me get the scale out of the way first.

220.4 So almost another pound down. When I was making this graph I entered the weights as 230′s and didn’t catch it till just now. I feel like I just lost 10 lbs. LOL.

Today I did some kettlebell work. I did 25 warm up’s (I dunno what they are called I just swing the weight around my waist transferring from one hand to the other) And then I did 25 swings. It wasn’t much but it got my back nice and warm. I plan on working out 3 times a week for the rest of this thing. So I will do a decent workout Friday. And go from there.

When i ordered my protein powder I ordered 4 4lb jugs of strawberry banana flavored powder. I knew that it was easy to drink, I had used it before so I went with what I knew. Then i bought some vanilla powder from Wally World to start this before the other jugs got here. It turns out I like the vanilla more. So that’s sort of like a treat I give myself each day.. 1 vanilla drink.

I will probably buy a few other flavors to try since I need more than what I have to last the whole 6 weeks (the 28 days and then 2 weeks step off).

I find myself really looking forward to that first meal. I was watching a TV show and saw a bunch of homemade bread and my mouth started watering. I guess thats the first real craving I have had.

Two more side effects I have noticed. 1) My sense of smell is amazing. I can smell food from a mile away now I think.. LOL 2) I am really irritable. I feel like ripping someones head off and shitting down their throat. so maybe I should work out more to help get rid of that feeling.

You know one good thing about this, is that it has me writing (typing?) again. And it’s good for my soul to write (if I have a soul). Anyway, on to the scheduled topic.

It is a little past noon on day 2 of the V diet. I had to take my mom to the ER today so I am just now drinking my 2nd shake. I stopped at Wally World on the way back from the hospital and picked up some flax seed and natural peanut butter. I added flax seed to the shake I am drinking now. It makes the shake a little thicker, but other than that, I can’t really taste it.

I ate probably 2-3 Tablespoons of peanut butter last night. Not because I was hungry or anything but just because 5 shakes only comes out to 1350 calories. I didn’t want to be below 1600. So that is why I got the flax seed and the natural peanut butter today, to bump up the cals for the day. Oh, I also grabbed some calcium gel tabs because I know I need more calcium, and want to get in the habit of taking them, maybe it will help cure my shins.

So, how was day 1? It was ok, I was never hungry. I never ‘felt’ hungry. There were a few times that I thought ‘it would be nice to eat something’, but it wasn’t real physical hunger. I find myself having to make sure I drink the protein drinks on time each day, otherwise I start feeling sluggish and disconnected. Maybe even a bit nauseated. But as soon as I drink a shake it all goes away and I feel fine. The thing is, I don’t feel hungry. So I have to make myself go drink a shake. I also realize I didn’t drink enough water yesterday and I need to do A LOT more of that. I only had 1 32 oz cup of water. That’s not good enough. I will be making sure I drink a 32 oz cup in between each shake.

I took my photos last night, I’m apprehensive about posting them though. I look terrible. So fat and out of shape. I guess I can go ahead and post them, doing so will probably make me focus more on getting in better shape so that the after pics look a lot better.

I also need to start doing kettlebell swings, Hopefully I can get up the motivation to do some today. We shall see. Oh and I weighed myself this morning, even though I am only supposed to weigh in once a week according to the V-diet guys, but then again they say I need to order $600 worth of their product to do this, and I didn’t listen to that either. The scale read 221.2

Here we are.. morning of day 1. I haven’t even drank the protein drink yet. Taking measurements. The scale says 223.2
The tape measure says
Waist (around belly button): 111 cms (which is a shock to me, it dropped although I have gained a few lbs)
Chest: 120 cms (That’s where all that fat has moved to)

The el-cheapo calipers I have say 26.7% bodyfat. I’m sure its off a few %’s but it will make a good baseline, if it drops like 10% it will be obvious I lost some bodyfat and not all muscle.

As for photos, I will get some done tonight, I can’t take them myself and the kids are at school.

I will probably post again tonight.

I will call today Day 0 because I am starting the Velocity Diet tomorrow. I plan to do the diet for 28 days.
If you have never heard of the velocity diet -> CLICK HERE

Basically you drink nothing but protein drinks for 28 days. You throw in some almond butter and flax seed for fiber and some extra calories as needed. I decided it was time for me to do something drastic. Slow and steady isn’t winning the race for me, I just keep falling further and further behind.

I will try to post a blog here each day, and I may make a few videos and put them on youtube and imbed them here. I will post my before pictures and my measurements tomorrow morning (day 1) as well. I’ve told a few people about this and the response is the same from most of them, they think I am crazy and that I will fail miserably. I think some of them also believe this is going to kill me. I guess if it does, I will be at 0% bodyfat by this time next year.