Should have gotten my picture taken last Saturday. As of this coming Saturday, I'll have been in the
Men's Health Abs Diet contest for seven weeks, rather than the required six weeks to qualify for the car.
Still, I'm
very excited about this. I tried the Body for Life thing. That was not so good. Why? Here's how BFL works: you still have to eat six times a day, but the way the meals are suggested, it's pretty clear that they would very much like you to be downing one or two EAS Myoplex® shakes (at around $4 a shake) each day. Plus take some EAS creatine supplements, plus ... whatever. It's also a 12 week plan, although you are supposed to see results earlier. Even with that, I probably could have done it, but the real killer comes when you see what the recommended meals are like. The regular meals, I mean. You can't get much more to the "I'm eating this for my health, not because I like it" side of the meter. Plus, even when I was trying to do it, it still felt like I was not eating enough.
Abs Diet is different. Is it better? Well, for practical reasons, yes, although maybe not for objective reasons. The practical way it is better is that a) it is working, and b) I'm still excited about being on it, seven weeks later. I eat a lot of foods that I ate before, and not so much of some other foods that I ate before. I still feel like I'm eating like
me. The cheat meal (one a week) is smart; I do use it. Am I getting ("dunh-dunh-dunnnnnh")
stupefyingly amazing results? Probably not. Do I care? Uhhhhh NO. Because eventually I will get the results, and I'm quite okay with my pace.
So far, I've dropped from somewhere around 195 pounds to a predictable 183 or less, and my body-fat ratio is about 22 to 23%. And it just keeps going. I've increased my strength in the gym, but most important,
I'm still going to the gym, even after seven weeks, and I still feel like going. This is a win for me, regardless of whether I qualify for the Crossfire convertible. Although I'd be lying through my teeth if I said I wasn't still interested in the car...
