17 Year Old Cutting Journal

[Wires]

1/27/06

Weight: 170lbs

7:15AM: Bowl of Cheerios in Vitamin D milk + 16 oz. orange-pineapple juice + 1 multivitamin
7:45AM: 3 Hydroxycut pills
12:15PM: 8 Lightly breaded chicken fingers + 20 oz. water
3:30PM: Workout + 20 oz. water
4:45PM: 6 in. ham and turkey sub w/ cheese + protein bar + 16 oz. water + 3 hydroxycut pills
8:00PM: 6 Lightly breaded chicken fingers + mashed potatoes (around 1000 calories total.. a bit much for one meal, I know) + 1 can of "Ski"(it's a local brand of pop with 180 calories) + 2 small cookies (yes, I was at my girlfriend's again)
12:15PM: 16 oz. water

[tim_mcf]

Pullups: 0x0x3 (This was my last exercise and after the pulldowns, I didn't have enough left to do even one. When should I do these? At the beginning of my workout or just before I do the pulldowns?)

Well, in my opinion that's kind of a wierd split you have going there. I wouldn't do them on the same day. But if you're going to do it, then next week do the lats first, chest second, week after lead with the chest, etc.

[Wires]

Here's how my workout went today. My tricep exercises were lackluster because I just did chest yesturday and my triceps were worked pretty hard then too, so I've got to figure out something different.

Dips: 9x1 7x1 5x1
Skullcrushers: 65x8x1 65x6x1 55x10x1
Concentration Curls: Right - 30x6x3 Left - 30x8x1 30x6x2
Preacher Curls: 65x10x1 65x6x1 55x9x1
Military Press: 95x8x1 95x5x1 85x8x1
Reverse DB Flies: 25x10x1 25x8x1 10x8x1
BB Shrugs: 135x10 185x8x2

[Wires]

1/28/06

Weight: 171lbs

9:00AM: 1 bowl of Cheerios in Vitamin D milk + 16 oz. iced tea + 1 multivitamin
9:45AM: 3 hydroxycut pills + 1 protein bar
11:00AM: 45 minutes indoor soccer (indoor soccer league)
12:30PM: Grilled chicken w/cheese sub
1:00PM: 16 oz. iced tea
6:30PM-12:00AM(party): 4 hotdogs + 2 cookies + handfull of chips + a few cups of pop
1:00AM: 16 oz. iced tea

I assume the three pounds I gained is muscle? I've been eating a lot more than I have been but I really don't notice any difference in the way I look besides my chest. It looks a LOT more "full" than before.

[Wires]

1/29/06

Weight: 169lbs (I guess the 171 weight yesturday was water?)

12:00AM - Awoke
12:15PM - 16 oz. iced tea + 3 hydroxycut pills
12:45PM - walk/jog
1:30PM-9:30PM - Girlfriend's House - 2 hotdogs, glass or pop, piece of cake, roast beef, mashed potatoes, glass of pop
9:30PM - 3 hydroxycut pills
10:00PM - Salad w/ ranch dressing + 20 oz. iced tea

I walked 1/2 a mile for 10 minutes, jogged a 1/2 mile for 6 minutes, and then walked a bit more for 7 minutes. Needless to say, my legs were dead from my soccer game yesturday.

I'm so stressed out about other things right now, so at the moment I'm not really worrying about this.

[Wires]

1/30/06

Weight: 169lbs

7:15AM - Bowl of Cheerios + 16 oz. iced tea + 1 multivitamin
12:00PM - 2 "chicken-two-fers" (little "chicken" sandwiches at school which have probably 10g of protein at most) + 20 oz. water
3-6:00PM - Police station/Hospital.. I don't even want to get into it
4:30PM - 20 oz. mountain dew
6:30PM - 12 in. Chipotle Steak and Cheese sub (Subway)
8:30PM - 3 hydroxycut pills + 16 oz. iced tea
9:00PM - Workout
10:00PM - Protein bar + 8 oz. orange-pineaple juice

Today was absolute hell to put it into simple terms, but my workout consisted of:

Squat: 135x10x1, 275x10x1, 285x10x1, 305x10x1
Leg Press: 270x10x1, 360x10x2
Leg Curl: 50x10x3 (I did my calves in-between my 2nd and 3rd set of leg curls because some lady jacked the machine I was using and the other one in the room was terrible)
Seated Calf Raise: 150x10x2, 140x10x1
Leg Extension: 90x10x3

[Wires]

1/31/06

Weight: I forgot to weight myself this morning, but as of right now (9:15PM), it's 173lbs.

7:15AM - 1 bowl of Cheerios w/ Vitamin D milk + 16 oz. iced tea
12:00PM - 2 chicken patty sandwiches + 20 oz. water
3:15PM - Workout + 20 oz. water + 3 hydroxycut pills
4:15PM - 1 chicken breast sandwich (chicken breast, 1 slice of cheese, and a bit of thousand island dressing) + serving of ricaroni + salad (lettuce, spinnach, shredded cheese, carrots, and ranch dressing) + 16 oz. iced tea
6:30PM - piece of cake + 12 oz. dr pepper (girlfriend's again)
9:15PM - 1 chicken breast sandwich (same as above) + 1 contain of Yoplait Thick & Creamy yogurt + 16 oz. iced tea
11:00PM - 1 sugar cookie + 16 oz. iced tea

I think my workout today was very productive. I didn't do as much weight as I normally do, but I got a hell of a burn.

Bench Press: 135x10x1, 145x6x2
Inclice Bench Press: 115x10x1, 125x8x2
Butterfly Machine: 61x10x1, 69x10x2
DB Flies: 30x10x3
SkullCrushers: 45x10x1, 65x8x2

[Wires]

2/1/06

Weight: 170lbs

7:30AM - Bowl of strawberries + 16 oz. unsweetened iced tea + 3 hydroxycut pills
12:15PM - 8 lightly breaded chicken fingers w/ ketchup + 16 oz. Lipton bottled iced tea (a bit over 100 calories)
4:00PM - 1 porkchop + pasta + small piece of cake + 12 oz. mountain dew
10:00PM - small piece of chicken breast + 1 1/2 cups of a ricaroni-like product + 16 oz. iced tea

Today was a pretty ordinary day.. small breakfast and then 3 meals. I'm going to take the rest of the week off from lifting and then start Max-OT on Monday. I'll still post my weight, food intake, and any cardio I do.

[Wires]

2/2/06
Weight: 171lbs

7:15AM - Bowl of strawberries + 16 oz. iced tea + 1 multivitamin
11:00AM - 1 steak and cheese hot pocket + 12 oz. mountain dew
12:30PM - Speeding Ticket (70 in a 55) ... YAY!
1:30PM - same as 11:00AM (yes.. I'm suposed to be cutting, but I'm drinking pop.. shame on me)
4:30PM - 1 cup Yoplait Light and Fluffy Yogurt
5:30PM - Out to eat with the family ("Dakota's Roadhouse") - Chicken fingers + steak fries + 2 rolls + some of a blooming onion + 3 or 4 glasses of unsweetened iced tea
9:00PM - First Max-OT workout + Max-OT cardio + 20 oz. water
10:30PM - 16 oz. unsweetened iced iced tea
11:00PM - 8 oz. Vitamin D milk
My workout tonight felt really short. I guess it was though with the MAX-OT workout I'm trying. Here's how it went.

Lat Pull-downs (in front) - 100x6x2 100x5x1 (I attempted 6 reps, but I couldn't get the last one completely down)
T-bar Rows - 70x6x3 (one cable machine didn't have the proper cable for the low pully and the other didn't have enough weight, so I resorted to t-bar rows)
Good Mornings - 135x6x3 (these felt.. wierd. I haven't done these in SO long, so I hope it was just that and not improper form.)
Hyper Extensions (weighted) 35x6x2

I was only suposed to do 2 sets of the last 3 exercises, but on the middle two I did 3 because I wasn't thinking about the Max-OT routine. I'm trying to follow it to a "T", but it's tough to remember not to go for another set when I know I can do one.

After this, I did some Max-OT cardio. I was suposed to do 16 minutes, but the Cybex bike I was on went up from 10 to 15 to 30 so I chose 15. I started out on the highest difficulty of interval training (400 watts for 30 secs and 100 watts for 1 minute), but this quickly became too tough, so I took it down to 275 watts for 30 seconds and 75 watts for 1 minute.

[bryan182]

i doubt you can notice a 3 pund increase. dude you realy need to start eating more and eating more healthy. a bowl of cereal with ice tea for breakfast isnt going to cut it. and make sure you not only eating every 5 hours. try to have 6-7 meals a day. and you need to get in a ton more protein

[Wires]

2/3/06
Weight: 171lbs

What would you suggest for breakfast that would have more protein? I can't eat anything between my breakfast and lunch because I'm at school.

7:15AM - 8 oz. Vitamin D milk + bowl of Cheerios + cup of Dannon yogurt
12:15PM - 5 chicken nuggets + beef and cheese burrito
3:15PM - half cup of yogurt
3:30PM - Workout + 20 oz. water
4:30PM - other half cup of yogurt
5:30PM - Salad (lettuce, spinnach, shredded carrots, ranch dressing) + 20 oz. iced tea
6:30PM - 3 1/2 Pieces of breaded chicken (baked) + a bit of oats (I always try to force myself to eat them, but it's not not my thing)
I think that's it for this day. It's Saturday night right now and I don't remember if I had anything else yesturday.

Today I did 15 minutes of cardio on a cybex bike. It alternated between 60s at 75w and 30s at 300w. My average rpm was 97. After the cardio, I warmed up using the warmup routine from week 2 of Max-OT and then did the week 1 chest routine.
Flat Bench Press: 145x6x2, 145x5x1
Incline DB Press: 50x6x2
Dips(leaning forward with no added weight): 2x6

[KaiserSose]

Alright.. I'm a little confused here.. you are taking hydroxycut pills to lose weight, but you are eating food as if you want to gain weight.. If you look at your diet yesterday, there is really not one thing that is healthy about it. I mean cmon, two pizza pockets, a terribly unhealthy dinner, like 7 sodas or iced teas and a whole slew of other unhealthy foods. If you want to lose weight, or at the least, convert some of the fat into muscle (while maintaining or even gaining weight) you should focus more on your diet and not rely solely on hydroxycut. You should consider adding some liquid protein to your diet, this would instantly add 50g + of only protein to your diet each day. Also try to stay away from things such as pizza pockets and soda. How about eating more lean meats and healthy sandwiches. Furthermore, as someone previously eluded to, you should try and keep your meals no more then 3 hours apart. Sorry to be so blunt but if you really want to get in shape you have to make a few sacrifices and diet has got to be one of them.

[Wires]

2/4/06
Weight: Didn't weigh myself this morning

Okay. I really need to start eating cleaner. Please help me along by bitching at me when I put something in here that I shouldn't be eating.

7:30AM - 1 cup yogurt + 20 oz. iced tea
11:30AM - Breaded chicken breast sandwich (chicken + pepperjack cheese + thousand island dressing + wheat bun) + 20 oz. iced tea
I think I had something in between this and supper, but I can't remember right now.
5:30PM - 1 porkchop + maccaroni and cheese + 20 oz. iced tea
11:30PM - 3 more pieces of chicken (I scraped the breading off of them) + 20 oz. iced tea

I do have a question though. Would eating at 7:30AM, 12:15PM, 3:30PM, 6:30PM, and 9:30PM be close enough together? I don't have a choice but weight from 7:30 to 12:15

[Wires]

I just measured myself and so far the only changes I see are a 1 inch increase in the size of my thighs and a 1/4 inch decrease in my waist. My thighs are now 24 1/2 in. and my waist is 34 in.

[Wires]

2/5/06
Weight: 169lbs

I should need around 2200 calories per day. I'm going to cut that to 1900 and see how that goes. I'm aiming for around 240g protein, 170g carbs, and 30g fat. This is going to be quite difficult for me to get under control (especially the carbs to protein), but in a week or two I expect to have it.

8:05AM - 8 oz. Vitamin D milk + 6 oz. Yogurt + 1 multivitamin (Totals for this meal = 300 calories - 10g fat, 40g carbs, 14g protein)
10:30AM - Small breaded porkchop + A1 (260cals - 15g fat, 6g carbs, 22g protein)
12:30PM - 2 hotdogs w/bun + ketchup (520calories - 32g fat, 17g protein, 40g carbs)
I was at an EMT class my mom was teaching from 11:00AM until my next meal, so that's why there's the HUGE gap in meals. I had 4 cups of diet Pepsi and 1 liter of water between then and my next meal)
7:30PM - Half an order of General Tso's Chicken, rice, and broccoli (1060cal - 47g carbs, 26g protein, 24g fat)
10:15PM - Chicken breast fried in vegetable oil and a dab of thousand island dressing (~200 calories, 35g protein, ~10g fat, ~5g carbs)

The totals for today are aprox. 2340 calories with 59g coming from fat, 114g coming from protein, and 138g coming from carbs. Well.. today didn't go so well, but atleast it's a start.