Post Diet Diet

Went to photobucket last night hoping to create a free account for web hosting of photos but ALAS, it says we are not offering free accounts at the moment, check back later :( Anyone knows of any other free photo hosting sites?

Plan to post my before and after pics next week… kinda decided that this current low carb diet will end tomorrow…. Ok lets not say “end”, lets just say “relaxed”. I will then have to get all my stuff ready for the post diet diet which essentially is a low calorie diet. It is a sad diet but at least I get to cheat once a week. A typical working day’s diet will be as follows

Breakfast: Cereal/Oats, skim milk and protein powder

Tea Break: Protein shake comprising skim milk, protein powder and flaxseed oil

Lunch: Whatever healthy food I can find outside

Tea Break: Either another protein shake (yucks) or prepare something from home

Dinner: Post workout protein shake and a banana (p.s. no sexual reference whatsoever :P)

YIKES!!! Crap! Or what the aussies call Bugger!

Will I survive this diet? Fucking unlikely. But I’m still going to give it a go anyway. Oh, and if you’re wondering what’s for dinner on non-workout days, the answer is that everyday is a workout day, except weekends where I’m entitled to one day off. Ok now I’m convinced that I cannot make it. As with everything else, given time I will try to work out some sort of equilibrium.

The general rule is that food should be low in fat, and no frying is allowed (yah, right). Except the post workout meal, each meal should have one starchy carb (potato, rice etc), one fibrous carb (vege) and protein (meat or protein powder). Each meal should also have an equal split of carbs versus protein. And the daily intake of carbs and protein should be evened out throughout the day. So as you can imagine, I have been preparing my calculations to count how many grams of carbs and protein does each item have and trying to balance them out.

To complicate matters further, the daily nutritional distribution between carb-protein-fat should be 40-40-20, which makes the calculations starting to look 3 dimensional and just too difficult… so I’m keeping the fat intake low and excluding it from my calculations.

Oh, and the supplements are another challenge, besides the multi-vit, I need vit-c during breakfast, lunch and dinner, and either before or after workouts (I cannot recall the sequence because I’m confused already), I need to take supplements like creatine, glutamine and Chromium Picolinate. Ok, I’m depressing myself now, and have to stop here.