It is now time to hit it hardcore. I have spent the last year working on several things, including building up. Y endurance and overall conditioning.
Point blank, I did not achieve what I wanted I achieve in the prior year. I wanted to lose weight, build muscle, and get healthy. After losing focus in the first part of the year, I brought myself back to cohesion. I was able to spend some time focused on my workouts, and started a new, fairly hardcore lifting routine.
The biggest problem this year has been diet. It is absolutely critical that I bring my diet I order to ensure that I am dropping body fat faster. How will I do this? The following are the core steps I have identified so far:
- Coffee – No coffee after noon. I will allow myself a couple of cups n the morning, but by reducing intake to only before noon, I can reduce my caffeine intake while still enjoying that coffee I love. I will allow myself tea after noontime. (And as an aside to that, Starbucks is officially off limits for no more than an occasional treat, and must be earned rather than assumed.)
- Tea – One of my newer loves in life is tea. I love brewing it, I love the loose tea leaves and the smells, and I definitely love the health benefits that many teas can bring you. Tea also has substantially less caffeine than coffee, which allows me to continue to reduce that caffeine intake.
- Breakfast – Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Don’t ever believe it isn’t, because it absolutely is. It is important to fuel your body. Breakfast will be oatmeal, eggs, and other dense nutrient foods that will enable me to fuel workouts
- Meals – One of the biggest mistakes people go when they focus on their diet is that they stop eating. Not eating can be much worse than for you. Each time you eat, your metabolism gets cranking and that is why five to six smaller meals is much better than three big meals. I will shift back to doing the five to six meal process, and make sure I stick to it.
This is just the first steps on m new efforts for 2012.
