Quick Shoot Prep

Yesterday, prep day 1

• Meal 1- eggs/steak/avocado
• Meal 2- protein shake preworkout
• Meal 3- protein shake postworkout + banana and dried cranberries
• Meal 4- chicken/broccoli/ some brown rice
• Meal 5- 2 tbsp almond butter + shrimp
• Meal 6- tbsp almond butter + egg whites

Most meals consisted of a lot of fats. When reducing carbs you must increase your protein and fat intake to balance macro nutrients. The only carbs I incorporated were all around my workout, therefore the carbs I was intaking where used to restore depleted glycogen. Another trick when cutting carbs out of your diet is to taper your carb reduction bit by bit. If you cut all your carbs out at once you will shock your system. Over the next few days I will reduce this carb count and slowly drain out the water.

Final few days, day 2 and 3 were very low carb days as well. I found that drastically dropping all carbs is not the best idea. Your body gets totally shocked and you start to feel like crap throughout the week. Therefore I would advise you give yourself some time ahead of your diet and slowly decrease your carbs day by day or week by week until you reach that number you’re looking to maintain during the diet. Days two and three diet looked very familiar with the exception of Day three’s post workout meal. I used carbs for day three’s post workout meal due to the fact that I didn't change my training and still hit it hard today. Therefore there was an increased demand for carbs to help with the recovery of broken down muscle during today’s chest workout. The past two days looked like this:

• Meal 1- ground turkey/avocado/egg whites
• Meal 2- almonds
• Meal 3- ground turkey or flank steak/asparagus/ green mix
• Meals 4- protein shake
• Meal 5- (post workout) 2 bananas+cranberries+2scoops protein *only Day 3, after training chest*
• Meal 6- ground turkey or tilapia/asparagus/flax oil
• Meal 7- 2scoops almond butter

*Ground turkey/flank steak/tilapia and asparagus are all foods that help with the dry out process. While I am using a natural diuretic (dandelion root+green tea extract) these foods also help by drying the body from the inside*

{*Only carb sources were in meal 5 only on day 3, used to restore glycogen post workout*}