And so it begins

So it is 5 AM and I am sitting here what to do with the time I would normally spend eating before my first client? I know, I will blog!

One interesting statistic I came across when doing the research on the Modelfit dietary progress was that we make over 200 food based decisions per day. I know in my case, thoughts of my next meal are always in the back of my head, so it may actually be liberating to put them to the side-- or I will be a bear by tonight, we will see.

I have spent the last day taking the steps necessarily to prepare for today and I must admit there were more than I assumed:

1. Calculate daily calories:

Knowing how much I need to eat on a daily basis to calculate my weekly fatloss. In my case, I am 165 x multiplied by 15 this equals around 2500 calories (it is ok to round up)

Now if a pound of fat is 3500 calories, two days of fasting plus my workouts should take me to around 1.5lbs lost per day

2. Input my foods:

My next step was to input my custom foods in to my diet log on fitday.com. Contrary to popular belief, this took around 30 minutes and involved simply adding the numbers from the back of labels.

My only issue with this was adding in the individual nutrients-- fats, proteins, etc-- but the website actually now allows you to just add the food with it's caloric total.

Because the point of keeping our food log is to see how many calories we are eating (versus specific nutrient breakdowns), this can be considered in a time crunch.

3. Choose my fast days:

In order to remain functional, I am playing it safe and choosing 8 pm to 8 pm on Monday and Friday. While some (such as myself) would argue we shouldnt include 12 hours of sleep time, I still feel 24 total hours of total fasting counts.

Oh, and anyone that disagrees will be giving me 50 burpees.

4. Create my workout and accountability log:





In our Modelfit notebook, you will notice sections for both a strength training log where we log individual lift numbers along with an accountability log in which we log our weekly tasks.

I will post some pictures of each later today, but this log will help me to keep track of my lift numbers this month. This will give me a good idea of where/if I am losing strength and help me to take steps in compensate.

In terms of accountability, if I am able to fill in all of the boxes here I will know it has been a good week!