Stumbled!

Tonight, I had a JOLLI HOTDOG, breaking my no-fastfood rule. Ah well.

Today:


lunch:
2pcs herb roasted chicken
half-cup rice

dinner:
one cup seafood paella

post-workout:
two pieces cheese
and a JOLLI HOTDOG! x.x



evil.

The Dream will Live On

So today, my underwear modeling dreams had their first brush with the underwear-modeling world Philistines. Intriqued? And rightly so. This is what happened:

d: hey marc, dyou want a donut?
me: no thanks.
d: oh cmon, we want to cheer you up because your girl's in canada!
me: how's a donut supposed to cheer me up? besides, i'm on a four month plan to turn myself into an underwear model.
d: OMG.
d: everyone! marc says he's going to be an underwear model in four months!
me: hell yeah~ reco'nize, biatch!
d: sorry, dude. but your face just screams "osh kosh b'gosh".

:|

So I'm a little baby faced. It ain't no thang. Hmn.. forgot what I had to eat yesterday, but I know I TOTALLY rocked the diet. Will-power, yo!

Worked out yesterday, after a LONG hiatus! Did a full body, which is usually supposed to be easier since the intensity is less compared to training specific body parts. Still, a three-week layoff is pretty hard to ignore, so.. my body's still adapting (HURTING LIKE MOTHERF*CKING CRAZY!)

Ooh, funny story!

I didn't have much time to workout yesterday, so as soon as I got to the gym, I dumped my bag in my locker, took out my training gloves and went over to stretch. As
I was putting on my gloves, I suddenly realized I had brought ONE glove with me, and the other piece of clothing was..

My black underwear :|

To make a long story short, I rushed back to the locker, tossed my underwear in, and grabbed my other glove. THERE :D

***

Yesterday's Diet!

Lunch:
2 small cuts of pork-steak
One-half cup of rice

Snack:
One Cheese sandwich (non-fat and whole wheat)

Dinner:
One Medium Cut Rib-eye steak
One cup of rice

***

Plain nutrition.

I started dieting today, as in really watching what I ate and all that stuff. I feel pretty good, and I'm not low on energy at all!

Here's what I had:

Breakfast:
5oz grilled rib-eye steak
Half-Cup of rice

Lunch:
One cup pork adobo with egg
Half-Cup of rice
Half-Cup steamed asparagus

Mid-afternoon snack:
One small spaghetti sandwich

Dinner:
One cup beefsteak
Half-Cup of rice

After-Dinner:
One Whole-Wheat cheese sandwich
Three shots of jagermeister
2 san mig strong ice beers
1 shot jack daniels

***

Considering how I can put away food, I think I did GREAT.

EGO - st(r)oking session

Things are really really really messed up right now, so I figured I'd do a little ego-st(r)oking session.

First off, at least ALL the people (meaning guys and girls) I've seen this week and the last have either said that,

a.) you've gotten taller!
b.) you've gotten thinner!

And that's always a good thing, especially when you're cutting calories. Gives you the extra willpower to keep going.

Oh, and I've also been approached by a modeling agency to work as one of their models (duh). Not in my underwear, though, but it's a start.

***

I don't really feel that much better. Maybe a few online stock simulators'll do the trick.

I once saw a t-shirt that said "Animals Taste Good"

I promised myself I'd make roast beef one of these days, and last Sunday was just the day to do it.

Why roast beef? Because it's easy to make, it's convenient for storing and reheating, it's relatively healthier than frying, and it tastes better than most other ways of cooking beef.

So while there is no actual video of me cooking, i'd like to think that I can be just as sexy as any food network star out there.

After browsing through a couple of recipes online and my trust MEAT and VEAL handbook, I've discovered that there's really not much to making this:



Into this:



Eat your heart out, Alton Brown.

One of those email forwards you'll never know if they're messing your head or not.

How Two Russian Journalists Cooked an Egg with their Mobile Phones:



Vladimir Lagovski and Andrei Moiseynko from Komsomolskaya Pravda Newspaper in Moscow decided to learn first-hand how harmful cell phones are. There is no magic in cooking with your cell phone. The secret is in the radio waves that the cell phone radiates.

The journalists created a simple microwave structure as shown in the picture. They called from one cell phone to the other and left both phones on talking mode. They placed a tape recorder next to phones to imitate sounds of speaking so the phones would stay on.



After, 15 minutes: The egg became slightly warm.
25 minutes: The egg became very warm.
40 minutes: The egg became very hot.
65 minutes: The egg was cooked. (As you can see.)



Conclusion ..1: Cooking eggs with mobile phones is possible but very expensive ($4.55 or 123 Rubles)

Conclusion ..2: All this talk of danger is exaggerated; even if your brain gets cooked, it would take a couple hours of talking on a cell phone.


Source: Komsomolskaya Pravda, April 23, 2006

I might add it takes approximately 2 minutes of speaking on a cellular phone for the radiation to cross the protective Blood Brain Barrier.

So when ever there is a land line available use it in preference to your cell.

***

I'll file that right in with how eating grape seeds will make you grow grapes in your stomach. Meaning I believe it.

Guess what, I'm 10lbs lighter!

I just got off the scale, and I realized that I am now around 10lbs lighter than I was exactly one year ago. I don't see much of a difference, but my lifts have gone up considerably, and my diet has been better.

Over the past year, I've:

• given up softdrinks altogether
• eaten better for at least 1/3 of the year
• gone to the gym for around cummulatively 2 months
• and gotten 9 FREE bodybuilding magazines

AND THE RESULTS ARE IN!

tada!

..I REALLY don't see much of a difference --

Mike Mentzer stuff

I'd been training extremely infrequently these days (primarily because of laziness and lousy schedules as opposed to required workout recovery periods), and so I decided to research on how that would affect my body.

So here you all go:

(PUBLISHED IN FLEX: SEPT. '01 ISSUE)

THE MIKE MENTZER STORY

In a career that spanned four decades, Mike Mentzer, who passed away on June 12, 2001 was one of bodybuilding’s most prominent, inspirational and controversial figures. In order to flesh out the unique life, times and psyche of this complicated star, we’re reprinting (beginning on the next page) a feature on Mentzer from the February 1995 issue of FLEX. Although the article was first published six years ago, we think it still provides insight into what drove this future Bodybuilding Hall of Fame inductee.

When this feature first appeared, Mike was writing regularly for FLEX, but he later moved on to work for Muscular Development. In the last two years of his life, he contributed to Ironman. His theories and writings continue to be a source for debate, and his books and articles remain popular (see www.mikementzer.com).

Some aspects of Mike’s outlook did change in the past few years. The profile deals in part with events surrounding the 1980 Mr. Olympia contest and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s controversial victory there. Mike finished fifth in that contest, prompting him to retire from competition. For many years afterward, Mike railed about what he perceived as the injustice of the 1980 Mr. Olympia, with Schwarzenegger being a prime target for criticism. Interestingly enough, Joanne Sharkey, Mike’s business assistant, confirmed that Schwarzenegger had called Mike last year and the pair had buried their differences. Indeed, John Balik, Ironman publisher, reports that shortly before his death, Mike referred to his former nemesis as "The best bodybuilder who ever lived." Keep these facts in mind when reading Mike’s comments about the 1980 Olympia.

Mike Mentzer was a complex and gifted man who leaves an indelible mark on the bodybuilding landscape. We offer the following story as a means of paying tribute to the passing of a forceful and enigmatic individual who has surely attained the status of bodybuilding icon.

-- Peter McGough, Editor-in-Chief

Read More..

Ok, that didn't really answer any questions.

Reviewing for the Bar.

In my attempt to control my diet while at the same time consuming enough protein, I had turned to protein bars. This was my old love:



The Promax Protein Bar. Things just didn't work out between us, and I still have three bars left over from the original four I bought.

This is why I was so skeptical about buying this:



..that and the fact that I didn't really trust the South Beach Diet people. However, this cereal bar has IMPRESSED me. I was going to break down the relevant nutritional info for you guys, but then I realized that Bodybuilding.com already did so HERE, along with tons of other bars.

They're selling the South Beach bars at a buck apiece. I got mine for $1.06 -- Not too bad.