Warrior Santa!

[Santa]

Argh! Well I decided to join up on the forums as of today after doing a quick search on the one day a meal diet it led met here. My friend had mentioned how he lost a good amount of weight doing it and I got an interest in it.

I started Monday - February 16th. I used to weight 250lbs back my freshman year of high school and with weight training and cardio and etc. I dropped down to 175 my Junior year. My highlight of high school was my junior year. I was toned, felt good and everything. Senior year came and I tried football, the coach obviously made me gain weight..more in muscle though than fat so I did. Gained about 10lbs in muscle and it didn't really affect me much, but I noticed I also had some fat gaining too later in the year. Once football ended I ended out pretty much training I guess. I didn't really keep up with my cardio and stuff but I was doing MMA too so that was my only real cardio. Now I weigh myself as of Monday and weigh 198lbs. I want to lose this and get back down to the 180lbs area or so if possible!

My freshman year picture: right and me of March 2007
(http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/5/l_7ba417adbc2b6684e6e516b65771162f.jpg)


Monday Feb 16th (This was before I found this and isn't that accurate since I didn't keep track till yesterday)

Weight: 199LBS
Under eating: Cereal w/ 2% milk, water through out the day
Over eating: Rice, beans, steak, Smoothie (berries, bananas with 2% milk)
Workout: 1HR of MMA

Tuesday Feb. 17th
Weight: 199LBS
Under eating: Water
Over eating: Meal from Texas roadhouse not much though, few bites of mashed potatoes w/chesse and bacon bits, bread, and steak
Worhout; none

Wednesday Feb. 18th

Weight: 198LBS
Under eating: Smoothie (berries, bananas with 2% milk), water
Over eating: A bit of rice, with steak strings and black beans.
Workout: MMA

Thursday Feb 19th More accurate since I'm starting today

Weight: 197LBS
Under eating: Smoothie (berries, bananas with 2% milk - soon changed to Skim or soy), water, 2 apples, Shake with Banana, 3 cranberries, 3 small pieces of pineapple with 2% milk *It wasn't tasty..*
Over eating: To be updated
Work out: Going now - to be updated.

[Santa]

Oh I wanted to know something too for my over eating. What should be the calorie in take range? Does it have to be a certain area or can it be like let's say..a meal that adds up to 500-800 calories?

[preston]

I personally only do about 100-200 calories during the day.
My main goal is to detox and lose weight, so the less food my stomach is digesting during the day the more chance that this will happen.

400-600 calories seems like a lot to me, but it really depends on what you want to do, how much physical activity your are doing during the day, and what foods you are getting the calories from.

Why don't you post a 400-600 calorie meal that you had in mind, so that we can see what foods your thinking about?

[Santa]

When I said the 400-600 calorie meal I meant to say that was for my over eating and not for the under eating. I too probably or try to stay within the range of 100-300 with what I ate today, not entirely sure. I ate the foods I ate today before I joined up on here.

I just spent about 2 and a half hours at the gym today. Did about 15 minutes in the sauna before I worked out to help me open my pores and help with synthesis, 45 minutes of cardio, about 500 ab workouts, and then chest and triceps and finished it off with another 10 minutes of the sauna.

So should I intake that amount of 400-600 or more for over eating?

[clake16]

When I said the 400-600 calorie meal I meant to say that was for my over eating and not for the under eating. I too probably or try to stay within the range of 100-300 with what I ate today, not entirely sure. I ate the foods I ate today before I joined up on here.

I just spent about 2 and a half hours at the gym today. Did about 15 minutes in the sauna before I worked out to help me open my pores and help with synthesis, 45 minutes of cardio, about 500 ab workouts, and then chest and triceps and finished it off with another 10 minutes of the sauna.

So should I intake that amount of 400-600 or more for over eating?

Santa,

Keep in mind you are making up for the ENTIRE days worth of nutrients (calories).  You will be surprised how much you need.  You need to utilize the 4 hour window and spread it out to make sure you eat enough.  This is my personal over-eating on a typical day for high fat (and I've seen/continue to see great results):

huge salad of spring mix with 3-5 dif. raw veggies
steamed veggies
6-10 soft boiled eggs (450-750 calories)
3-6 handfuls of nuts (500-1000 calories)

My point is you do not really need to shoot for a specific range at first.  I don't even pay attention to those numbers.  Listen to you body.  When you're full, stop eating.  Make sure you're spreading your body out so you have time to really get the satiety feeling.  This may change when if I hit a plateau.  Then I'll get more technical, but for now I just listen to my body.  Do not over-complicate this diet at first.  You'll learn as time goes on and tweak things as needed.

[Santa]

Thank you for the reply. =]
Yeah last night before I ate my hunger pains went away from the entire day, but I was satisfied with what I ate.

Thursday Feb 19th _ Updated

Weight: 197LBS
Under eating: Smoothie (berries, bananas with 2% milk - soon changed to Skim or soy), water, 2 apples, Shake with Banana, 3 cranberries, 3 small pieces of pineapple with 2% milk *It wasn't tasty..*
Over eating: Mashed potatoes, 3 spoons of rice, 3 spoons of red beans, four small steaks added around almost 12 oz, half cup apple juice, more water.
Work out: I just spent about 2 and a half hours at the gym today. Did about 15 minutes in the sauna before I worked out to help me open my pores and help with synthesis, 45 minutes of cardio, about 500 ab workouts, and then chest and triceps and finished it off with another 10 minutes of the sauna.

Friday Feb 20th To be updated later today

Weight: 196LBS
Under eating: One quick sip of Sunny D, 2 Cups of water
Over eating: To be updated
Work out: None yet..I didn't wake up early enough, but will head after work.

[Santa]

Friday Feb 20th

Weight: 197LBS
Under eating: One quick sip of Sunny D, 2 Cups of water, Another 1.5 ltr of water, 1 green apple for lunch
Over eating: Rice, red beans, 3 slices of ham, 1 banana, 1 cup of blueberry shake I made
Work out: 15min on elliptical, 5min running, and the rest on biceps and abs. 15min sauna. Spent about an hour and a half.

I've noticed my hunger pains decreasing..it's all mental that's for sure.