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There are two posts that caught my attention recently. The first one is from lifehut.org that discuss on being healthy and thin. The second one is from veggiechic.com that talks about her fasting journey

Lifehut argue that people tend to focus so much on being thin without really thinking of being healthy. This is an interesting point since people sometimes sacrifice health for the purpose of being thin and as such people label them to be healthy.

Veggie Chic on the other hand talks about her journey on fasting and argues about a lot of health benefits that go with it. Hmmm. This I am not really sure about.

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This is a pre-preparation for my 30 day goal. I did not want to start with any program, or formal attack on how to go about it. My first priority is getting my body to feel the task ahead.

My strategy on this is a workout at Mandarin Hotel Health Club. During that day on January 28, 2006 I trained all of my body parts using light weight equipment doing more repetitions than I normally do of 15 to 20 per exercise. For cardio I did 4 rounds of 3 minutes each on the punching bag and a 5 km run at the treadmill.

Throughout the day my food intake was a high protein meal of meat, liver and chicken white meat. The only thing bad about that was the way it was cooked - Barbeque. But this will improve as I go along. During night time, my dinner was a cup of oatmeal, less-fat cereals and tuna with Omega 3 oil.

This is not a high caliber diet plan but just enough to prepare me mentally and emotionally for the battle that lie ahead.

My starting stats

My weight: 204 lbs.
Body fat: 24.8

The Ultimate Meal Planner

Nutrition for bodybuilders is much complex than the average Joe. They are however the same in principle since we are all humans. The difference lie on the end result of having the leanest body fat possible maintained all year round.

Food Intake. Yes, it’s about the amount of food you feed your body that matters.

I previously had a discussion with my officemate about the principles of staying in shape. We bounced ideas from one exercise to another trying to determine how much calories that physical activity could burn in a given amount of time. As our discussion moved along — he simply blurted out — Let’s just not eat man. He was damn right. Discussing the amount of calories to burn doesn’t even become an issue if we did not eat. But that is not good of course. It’s better to say that we should just eat the right amount of calories.

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Losing 35 lbs in 30 days is my personal goal at this point. It has been rather disappointing to know my body fat percentage as of January 21, 2006 is 24.8%. Darn, 0.2% more and I would fall into the obese category.

This is so bad since my last body fat percentage was only 17 percent which was at a fit level at the 3rd week of December, 2005.

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The first knockout of Erik Morales was handed down by Manny Pacquiao in the tenth round. Punches came from all over the place hitting Erik from all angles. It was apparent that Manny’s barage of punches in the body of Erik weakened him. Congratulations Manny. Thank You for winning the super featherweight boxing match!

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The objective of this site is to become as strong as the oak. But today, it’s all about becoming as strong as Pacman. Manny Pacquiao and Erik Morales clash II will start at 7 p.m. Las Vegas time. The whole world is backing you up. The Philippines your hometown is there all the way. Prayers to you our friend and hero.

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