January 28th, 2013

Every Damn Day

I will be increasing calories again this week by adding more fats into my diet.  I believe I am already maxed out with carbs at the moment.  I believe the high level of carbohydrates is negatively affecting my skin condition so I believe it’s time to pump the brakes on increasing them again.  I have psoriasis and small lesions have appeared faintly but are not getting any worse.  It is getting increasingly difficult to meet my daily caloric goals from clean food sources on most days of the week because it is such a large amount of food that I must consume.  It is only on the weekends that I splurge on cheat meals which make it easier to meet my caloric and macro goals. 

Yesterday's Cheat Meal - Chipotle x2... Yes, I had two of these.

My new daily caloric goal is ~3200 calories.  I will aim for the following macros: 360g C / 240g P / 90g F.  I will achieve this by incorporating more fats in to my diet from organic peanut butters, almond butters, variety of unsalted nuts, extra virgin olive oil, macadamia nut oil, and coconut oil.  Depending on the market price of cuts of beef or fattier types of fish, I may add these into my diet as a fattier protein source in which I will count the amount of protein and fats.  With a gram of carbohydrate weighing in at 4 calories and a gram of fat at 9 calories, it’s a good thing that fats are such a calorically dense energy source because I don’t think I can eat more carbs at this point!

For more than a week, I have not experienced any weight gains.  My strength is slowly increasing which is a good sign that I may be building more muscle and muscle definition appear to remain visibly unchanged as well.  My pants are getting tighter in the thigh area from increased focus and frequency in training my legs.  I train legs twice a week on Wednesdays and Saturdays.  My chest and biceps are my weak areas in which I will focus on training with more intensity.  Perhaps I will play with the idea to increase training frequency by including a few heavy exercises for chest and biceps on Sundays.  Sundays can be my “abs & weak point training” days, since I will no longer be doing much cardio anymore to retain the calories for mass gain.  Perhaps I will limit cardio to just 10-15 minute low intensity sessions at 3-4 times a week just because I like doing it and it makes me feel good.