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A very busy day.  Nothing to report besides my stats for today.

So here are my stats:

Cardio: Treadmill - 30 Minutes - 1.55 Miles Ran
Strength Training: Shoulder Press - 25lbs/side - 25 Reps

Breakfast:
Nothing

Lunch:
Large Salad - Greens, Red Cabbage, Avacado, Pumpkin Seeds, Pine Nuts, Sundried Cranberries

Dinner:
Large Salad - Greens, Red Cabbage, Avacado, Pumpkin Seeds, Pine Nuts, Sundried Cranberries
Organic Tomatoe Soup

Snacks:
2 Bananas

Well, today’s workout was fairly uneventful.  My triceps feel like jello, but that’s about it.  Nothing else much to say about it.

So here are my stats:

Cardio: Treadmill - 32 Minutes - 2.01 Miles Ran
Strength Training: Tricep Curls - 20lbs/side - To Failure

Breakfast:
Nothing

Lunch:
Veggie Sandwich on Whole Wheat Bread - Cucumbers, Sprouts, Lettuce, Tomato
Small Greek Salad

Dinner:
Large Greek Salad
Spinach Pie

Snacks:
Banana
Half a Cantaloupe
Grapefruit

Today I did something a bit different for my workout routine.

Firstly, I pushed myself a bit harder on the treadmill and ran 2.01 miles in the 30minutes on there, instead of the usual 1.75 miles I normally run.

Secondly, I wanted to change up my strength training up a bit. Instead of doing bench press, bicep curls and triceps curls on the same day, I decided to try a slightly different muscle building technique I learned the last time I was working out. Basically it involves doing one muscle group, in this case being my pecs. What you do is you basically push that one group of muscles to failure instead of just doing three sets of a certain number of reps.

You pick a weight that’s a bit easier to lift than your normal weight for doing your sets, and what you do is you go up and down with the weight really slowly, concentrating on that one muscle group you’re working out. You basically take like 3-8 seconds to lift the weight and then 3-8 seconds to lower the weight without pausing at either top or bottom of the lift. You’re basically just moving the weight up and down really slowly without relieving the muscle of strain at the top and bottom by locking your elbows.

What this does is that it pushes your muscles to fatigue really quickly and you keep going until you basically can’t lift anymore at all. Once you get to the point where the muscle is pretty much unable to lift any more, you kind of hit a stopping point where you’re TRYING to lift the weight and your hands are shaking but it won’t budge anymore. At this point you lower the weight slowly and then you’re done. DON’T DO THIS WITH FREE WEIGHTS without a spotter. I’m using a bowflex so if I can’t lift any weight anymore I can just lower it without getting injured.

Once you do one muscle group like this, it will burn like crazy and you’ll feel it the next day. You then give that muscle group a whole week, YES 7 DAYS, to recover. So tomorrow I’ll be working on a different muscle group. I’ll pick 7 exercises and try this out for a while.

So here are my stats:

Cardio: Treadmill - 30 Minutes - 2.01 Miles Ran
Strength Training: Bench Press - 110lbs - To Failure

Breakfast:
Pacific Brand Organic Tomato Soup

Lunch:
Veggie Sticks - Cucumbers, Carrots, Celery, Cherry Tomatoes, with a bit of dip
Baked Vegetarian Spring Rolls

Dinner:
Seafood Salad - Wild Salmon, Grilled Praws, Shrimp, Greens, Crispy Noodles, Avacado, Sprouts, Papaya

Snacks:
Organic Grapefruit

Well, it’s day 8 since I started my diet and I’ve lost 7.4lbs so far. I’m really excited about this. It’s good to see progress when you’re working hard.

Although I’ll go into more detail as to what my diet is later on, I’ll share a few points to the philosophy I’m following.

It is basically based on not allowing foods that are “crap” to pass my lips, and instead focusing on eating foods that nourish my body. As long as a food is good and nutritious, I can eat however much of it I want. I do not count calories or try to portion my food. If I’m hungry I eat. Anytime I want. I just eat nutritious food, that’s all.

For example. Here are some foods that are on my “crap” list that I haven’t eaten for the last 8 days:

Crap Foods:
- No Pop of any kind, I used to be addicted to drinking 2-3 Coca-Cola cans every day
- No Concentrated Fruit Juices (I only drank 2 glasses of Tropicana Orange Juice in the last week)
- No White Sugar
- No White Rice
- No White Flour Products (Pasta, Breads, etc.)
- No Beef, No Chicken, No Pork, Fish Once or Twice a Week is OK
- No Eggs
- No Milk (I used VERY small amount of Ranch Dressing I have left-over two or three times this week)
- No Other Dairy Products (ie. No Sour Cream, No Cheese, etc.)

The basic premise is to eat at least 80-90% water rich, alkalizing vegetables at my meals, either raw or steamed/stir-fried, with 10-20% denser foods such as beans, legumes, nuts, sprouted grain flatbread, etc.

Nutritious Foods:
- All Kinds of Alkaline Veggies (Green Lettuce, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Green and Red Peppers, etc.)
- Some Starchy Veggies in small quantities, such as potatoe’s
- Some Fruits, the less Acidic the fruit the more I can eat of it. For example Cantaloupe, Melon, Grapefruit and Apples are better than Banana’s, Oranges, etc. The lower the Glycemic Index the better.
- All Nuts are OK except for Peanuts.  Pumpkin Seeds, Sesame Seeds, Pine Nuts, Almonds etc. are good. Still trying to find real RAW Almonds, not the fake RAW ones form California.
- Drinking 6-8 Glasses of Alkaline Water / day (I put pH drops in my water as well as Lemon)

Supplements:
- I’ve taken a few Kre-Alkalyn Creatine Pill Supplements
- I’ve taken a few Innerlight Supergreen’s Capsules
- Both of which, plus some Innerlight Multivitamin and Minerals I want to start taking every day.

That’s the basics of what I’m doing.