Its been a lot of ups and downs with diet and motivation these past months, I am slowly working my way back up mentally. I plan on being more truthful with the way things are going for me.
I first started eating only raw paleo foods and eating six meals a day. I joined the forum and have learned of the success of eating one meal a day. I did it. I had one big plate of food around 7pm every day. 3/4 of the plate was filled with fruit, 1/4 with nuts. And I ate a small piece of meat too, about 3oz to 6oz. I ate the raw meat first cause I didn't like the taste, then the fruit, then my nuts. I felt much better than before and lost a lot of weight. I noticed improvements in my health but it seemed to stop progression after a while. My acne on my back did go completely away and my complexion was very clear. I pooped every morning too. I was very thin, and pretty toned too. I practiced martial arts every day I believe, at the time. I also lifted light and heaving weights with multiple sets, many of them were kinda unnatural movements in unnatural positions but most were OK. After this I experienced a lot of ups and downs on trying new things I learned about diet, I learned of food combining, anti-nutrients in nuts, grass fed meat and its importance and superiority to grain fed meats, zero carb etc, etc. I became addicted to carbs and was frustrated with what was best for me and binged a lot, ate grains, cereal milk cheese, whatever, highly processes candies, even a caramel apple ate once. I witnessed returning acne and increase of fat, but also increased muscle mass, but even though I never looked fat by today's standards. My highest was 160 or over. Compared to my one meal a day when I got to 135 or lower.
Present:
After months of ups and downs I truly want to adapt to zero carb and relinquished this food addiction I created through confusion and emotional eating. I have been eating fruit this past month but have been eating more meat. Acne cleared up again and I feel better. I made some changes in exercise and feel and look good. My addiction to carbs is pretty much gone mentally.Been doing pretty good these past few weeks, I have just started zero carb yesterday. After lowering fruit consumption slowly.
My Current Exercise Regimen:(I still practice martial arts because I love it, but have lowered it down to a few simple and effective techniques that are more natural movements, and of course I do other exercise that appear in my regular life and I walk alot)
Monday: Hand and Elbow Strikes. (standing only)
Tuesday: Leg and knee strikes. (standing only)
Wednesday: Pull-ups, dips, push ups. (one set each as many reps as I can do) Gripper machine one set as many as I can do. I run up and down stairs, up once and down once counts as 1, I do a certain amount depending on how big the flight of stairs or grassy hill is.
Thursday: Ground strikes, wrestling, and submissions.
Friday: Sparring or or just mixing everything together when training.
Saturday: I take 2 dumbbells in each hand, get in squat position, dumbbells just above floor, squat up, curl, than push them over my head, reverse movement, and repeat until I can't do anymore, one set. Gripper machine one set as many as I can do. Stair/hill exercise again.
Sunday: No planned exercise.
I gain more and maintain muscle with less weight lifting and more meat and less carbs
I will soon put pictures of my physical transformation and my current exercises. Thanks for reading.
