The Getting A Six Pack Experiment has been in effect for about 2 weeks now, and I have purposely not been posting what I eat everyday for the first two weeks….I wanted to first get some good, solid meals that fill me up, have extraordinarily low calories, provide tons of nutrition…and mainly, leave me feeling energetic.
I didn’t want to post stuff that left me feeling terrible.
The way I’m tracking what I eat is through Adam’s company MyBodyTutor. Not only do I track what I eat, but I get professional feedback on each and every meal.
Now the biggest problem I personally face when reading about “eating well” is I STILL DON’T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK TO EAT!
Why don’t these people just TELL me exactly what to eat for breakfast/lunch/dinner? Oh wait, they do….they tell me to eat THEIR food which they provide you for $399/month. Thanks guys.
Well that’s not sustainable (although it is a FANTASTIC business model though)!
If something DOES tell you what to eat, it says, “Eat a healthy dose of foods with nuts, grains, fruits and vegetables.” Umm….ok….such as???
Anyhow, I figured if people could learn something, it’s just a simple picture documentary of what I eat on a typical day….BEGIN:
11:30 AM:
4 spring rolls made out of:
- 4 rice wraps
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 cup spinach
- 1/2 avocado
- 1/2 cup cashews
- 2 clementines
I basically dump and the stuff in a bowl, mix it up, then wrap them in the rice wraps (I’ll do a full tutorial later). They taste amazing and average to about 50 calories a piece…so I get completely full from 200 calories….in comparison a Snickers has 440 calories and doesn’t fill you up.
So many of my friends see me making these, taste them, now THEY make them all the time! It’s an incredibly healthy and tasty meal.
3:50 PM:
1/2 cup of grapes (somewhere around a handful)
5:20 PM:
1 apple
1 handful of raw cashews
6:50 PM:
A salad with:
- 1/2 cup spinach
- 1/2 cup strawberries
- 1/2 cup cashews
- 1 cup grapes
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
(Ok, I admit, that’s the wrong picture, but it’s not that far off).
This is easy stuff to eat, and it tastes great! I barely consumed any calories, I got a TON of nutrition, I felt satisfied and I felt nice and light afterwards.
8:25 PM:
1/2 cup carrots
2 clementines
10:20 PM
1/4 cup almonds
1 clementine
I NEVER feel guilty about snacking on raw fruits and vegetables. Eat your freakin heart out of those. That was the whole day’s worth of food.
Exercise:
-Ran 25 minutes on the elliptical machine (very hard resistance).
-Did all the ab exercises given to me by MBT.
-Went for a quick swim in the pool.
-Did ab exercises throughout the day during breaks.
This is a pretty typical day of eating and exercise (not even that much exercise). This food actually fills me up, and I don’t go around hungry all day. I HAVE learned how to eat less over time, and your body adapts to it just fine. Eating like this took some practice, but now it’s a perfect amount.
Just look at all that stuff, you can’t POSSIBLY feel sluggish after any of those meals!
Back in college I would’ve though this kind of eating was insane, but that’s because I was so used to loading up on really heavy foods every single day.
I’ll do these daily posts a few more days, and try to include the calories too (this day was very low as you can see). One value meal at a McDonald’s will have far more calories than this entire days worth of eating, AND it’ll make you sluggish.