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.

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

217.4

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I got asked today (I am asked this often) “Why are you STILL single?”

My response was because I live where I do. And I beleive that, it is a big reason I am single, but there are so many other reasons, so I will list some of them

x) I am too picky - I wrote a blog about this. I AM too picky, no doubt about it. If I am going to be in a relationship with someone I want to be with someone that I can’t wait to be with. I don’t just want to be with someone for the sake of being with someone. If I don’t feel that way then I feel like I am just wasting the other persons time, or using them. I have an issue using people (unlike most men).

x) I am 33 - I’m a 33 year old guy that still acts and feels like he is 24-25. The majority of women my age act like they have a foot in the grave. They are too serious about everything. They don’t enjoy ‘playing’. When I am with a woman that is my age I feel like I am hanging out with my mom. There is a time and a place for seriousness, I understand that. But you only get one life, when you die it’s over, so have some fun for f*ks sake. I think I will always want to run and play and have fun, so I can’t be with someone who doesn’t enjoy doing the same.

x) Obesity is an epidemic – Speaking of running and playing. You have to be in halfway decent shape to do that. While I don’t expect everyone to be in perfect shape (I know I’m not) I can’t be with someone that I don’t find attractive. This ties in with being too picky. Men are visual creatures, I am a MAN. EXCESS fat is not attractive. So the less EXCESS fat a woman has the better. The problem is that most of the women who aren’t fatties, aren’t single.

x) I have kids and wont be making any more – This basically limits me to single mothers who don’t want more kids. Most women want kids of their own some day, the ones that don’t have that goal in life most likely don’t want to date a guy with kids. Couple that with the fact that I don’t seem to get along with women my age or older.. and this is a big one.

x) I can’t move – Until my girls grow up and move out I am staying here to be with them. That means I have to be with someone that lives real close, or they have to move closer to me, because we all know long distance relationships don’t work.

x) I’m not trying – I pretty much gave up sometime last year on even looking for someone to be in a relationship with. It’s hard to become un-single when you aren’t even looking for someone to be with.

But the #1 reason I am single and any man will understand this, is that I am HONEST. You cannot be HONEST and be in a relationship with a woman. You have to start out telling some lies, leaving out some crap, or at least bending the truth, because every other swinging dick out there damn sure is. And women fall for it hook line and sinker. So if you want to be able to compete with all the crap every other man is selling in order to get some, you gotta play the game too. If you can’t beat them you gotta join them. And honesty never wins in this game.

If you start out dishonest, by the time the woman finds out, it’s too late. She already has feelings for you, and then she is willing to overlook the stuff that she would have passed you over because of at the start. That is the secret that most men know. unfortunately for me I still haven’t learned to accept being a liar yet. So yes, the fact that I am honest keeps me single.

Go figure.