Shredding diary

I’ve always said that it’s not about how much you lift, but what you look like. I believe that training isn’t a competition, but a lifestyle choice; you’re not competing with anyone but yourself.
I really love this quote from Zyzz – “My end goal is not to be some massed up freak, but rather to have a physique that can be looked as art; streamlined, tapered, and universally appealing"

So I decided to see the full extent of my training and shed the fat this month. This is my progress diary for the two weeks.

Week 1:

Start – weight 81kg

I started a new nutrition plan, which was basically to have more protein than carbs, and aimed to hit the following amounts of each for this week. For protein I aimed for over 850 grams in the week and for carbs less than 700 grams. This meant roughly less than 100 grams a day.
As far as training goes I kept to the same routines, and had Wednesday as a cardio day where I ran for 40 minutes around my local park with 30 push-ups at the end of each lap. Then later on I did the military circuit and abs circuit from this blog at the gym.

As an extra metabolism boost I spent about 15 minutes in the sauna 3 days of this week after my workout, to rev up the fat burning a little more.

 Results – protein total for week = 873grams

               Carbs total for week = 663 grams

Week 2:

After 1 week = 77kg (lost 4 kilos)
This week I set myself the same nutritional targets having seen such good progress in week 1 and having learnt how to manage the carbs counter more effectively I was able to plan a basic meal plan for this week. Good meals for this are tuna salads with a small red pepper pesto dressing, 130 grams of tuna and bowl of salad (33 grams of protein and 7 grams of carbs) and 3 scrambled eggs with 100g chicken and 50g mixed peppers (36 grams of protein and 9 grams of carbs). These were my typical lunches.
Breakfast was either a protein shake or the banana and nut Smoothie from this blog. Sticking to this kind of meal plan means that virtually all healthy/high protein dinners are acceptable as long as they don’t have over 75 grams of carbs.
In terms of training I stuck to my usually routines again, but this time added three 10 minute abs sessions to the end of every other workout to help with the chiselled core look. Also upped the intensity of the cardio a bit. Again I was ending the other 3 weights workouts with a 15-minute sauna session to keep the metabolism revved up for several ours after leaving the gym.

Results – protein count for week = 903 grams

                Carbs count for week = 658 grams

 Current weight = 75kg. 

As a final thing I found that once you reach your desired weight and definition it is much more motivating in terms of dieting as you want to maintain it. But also now you no longer need to lose weight you can increase your carbs intake per week by around 100-150 grams and still stay ripped.

Hopefully you’ll find this motivating and helpful for your own training and I wish you all luck in achieving your aims. 
to watch the video of my progress and see the change yourselves check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drg-zb-iDh4