Week 1 of the 23 day diet is almost over and I must admit, it’s much harder than it was last year. I find myself starving at times, sometimes right after eating my meal. It may be because I don’t eat enough during my meals, but the portions I allow myself seem to be larger than I usually have.

I’ve modified how I’m going to execute this whole diet, in regards to the workout plan and the types of foods that I’m taking in. I pretty much did the same thing last year because I didn’t want to have to invest in all the supplements – I’d like to keep my body free of as much chemicals as possible.

Workout Mods
I don’t follow their 4 day workout plan. My goal is to workout (lift) at least 3 times a week (legs, chest, back/bi’s) and shoot for as many days as I can for cardio. Due to my injured shoulder, I’m still keeping off a few of the exercises that I want to do to avoid further injury, hopefully the shoulder heals up soon so I can start my Racquetball regiment again. (RB is the ultimate cardio exercise – 700/800 calories burned in a hr game)

Diet Mods
My main goal for the diet is to stick to most of the foods that were listed in the diet plan and be consistent with the timing of my meals. The timing seems to always be an issue because something always comes up and looking at my moleskine journal, I see that the last time I ate was 4.5 hrs ago. I started writing in the moleskine to remind myself the last time I ate, and to keep track of what I ate for the day.

Because I’ve gotten accustomed to writing in the book now, I’ll probably do a weekly update of my meals to have it listed somewhere other than the book. (I lose things often)

I do, however, need to up my Protein Shake intake as that’s one aspect of the diet I do follow. The week’s been hectic and I kept forgetting this tub of powder at work every night.

This weeks meal dump coming soon…