Week 10

Day 69: Rest Day

Today's a rest day.

Nutrition: buffalo wings 700 cal 4 carb, four egg omelette 380 cal 2 carb, cashews 50 cal 1 carb, buffalo wings 720 cal 4 carb - 1850 calories 11 carbs

Day 68: Kenpo X

As I've said before, I like this workout a lot. It's fun. It makes you sweat. It burns calories. It's a short workout (unllike yoga). What more could you ask for?

Nutrition: four eggs w cheese 330 cal 2 carb, chicken wings 700 cal 4 carb, sour cream 70 cal 2 carb, two egg omelette w mushrooms 240 cal 2 carb - 1340 calories 10 carbs

Day 67: Legs and Back + Ab Ripper X

After a week away from working out, it was nice to get back into the routine and exercise again. I'm sure I'll have sore legs tomorrow after this but it's OK... it'll be worth it. During the ARX workout, I was able to do 60 Mason Twists non-stop and I was VERY happy about this. In the video, they only do 50 Mason Twists non-stop.

Keep in mind that I'm now following a low-carb regimen in which I'll have to restrict my carbs, NOT calories. The restriction is 20 carbs per day for 2 weeks. I'll continue to count calories for the sake of consistency in this journal, but I will also count carbs.

Nutrition: chicken wings 600 cal 3 carbs, sour cream 70 cal 2 carbs, four eggs w cheese 330 cal 2 carb, chicken wings 500 cal 3 carbs, sour cream 70 cal 2 carbs - 1570 calories 12 carbs

Week 10 Resumed

I'm back from the vacation one week later. As I had suspected, doing P90X was not entirely impossible, but was VERY difficult given the environment I was in and with the lack of free weights and a resistance band. Since the resort largely had buffet-style dining for almost all meals, I decided to go with a low-carb approach. The reasoning was that I would be living sedentary over that next week with bountiful amounts of food and drink. This inevitably would have lead to a gain of a few pounds. Having used the low-carb approach in the past, I knew this was the most feasible diet for the trip. In the buffet, I focused mostly on meats, eggs, and vegetables. I stayed away from tomato sauces, breads, desserts, and other 'carby' foods. At the bar, I stuck with water, diet coke, or scotch whiskey since these are essentially carb-free. After having returned to the US, I weighed myself and saw that I actually lost another pound. I believe that I may stay on the low-carb diet until the end of P90X. I honestly would rather stick to the low calorie approach of P90X but after 10 weeks of P90X, I have not achieved reduction of mid-section fat. I greatly believe I can achieve this with the low-carb approach. The fat cutting power of low-carb combined with the ab-building power of Ab Ripper X will hopefully have additive results.