Day 3 – Thursday 7.1.16

Day 3 – Thursday 7.1.16

 

I again woke up full of energy this morning, I usually snooze my alarm a couple of times but I didn’t this morning. I got straight up and headed to the gym for chest & biceps day. I have been walking like John Wayne all day unfortunately after my first leg session of 2016 yesterday. I think I may have overdone it a bit. After the gym I had the same scrambled egg breakfast as yesterday however I felt like a genius, and congratulated myself multiple times, as I substituted the cheese slices for 25g of cream cheese. The cream cheese has more fat and less protein and carbs so I felt this was a good switch so I would be able to have more carbs & protein for dinner later. At lunch I really didn’t know what to have so I wandered around the supermarket like a lost toddler looking for inspiration for a while. Inspiration appeared to be on strike so I ended up buying 2 packs of Dutch salami again. I also bought a 200g pack of crème fraiche as I noticed it was really high fat and very low in carbs and protein. I ate all the crème fraiche straight out the packet and this lunch proved to be a terrible idea, I think the fat content was way too high and my body didn’t appreciate having so much fat all at once. I felt pretty lousy for about 30 minutes after it – lesson learned! After work I hit the gym and did another 30 minutes on the cross trainer in an attempt to loosen my legs up a bit.

 

After the gym I cooked up fajitas without the wraps. I picked up an Old el Paso fajita kit, a red capsicum, lettuce and tomato. Cooked the chicken in the spice mix (be careful of the carbs in the mix) and olive oil then threw it all in between the lettuce wraps. The dinner was beautiful but in hindsight I overloaded my protein so would be better using mince or a more fatty meat in future.

 

End of day result:

 

Calories = 2800

Carbs = 35g (5%)

Fat = 209g (68%)

Protein 183g (27%)

 

Obviously I went to heavy on protein today as the target is 150g. The main lesson today was to not try to think of the macros at a daily level but to instead try to balance them per meal. My lunch was too fat heavy and left me feeling sick. My dinner was too protein heavy and left me feeling a bit more hungry than I would have with more fat.