My picture food diary has now been uploaded. This gives you an idea of my diet so you can see what kind of foods I am eating. As you're probably aware, eating the right food is just as important as the training itself.

To get to see the food diary, in the left hand navigation, click on "Food Diary" (under Main Page) then click on the appropriate date to see the food intake.

From now on I intend to upload pictures of the food (which should also give you an idea of brands and quantities). Up until this point I've missed a few meals, so from now on I'm going to have to capture more by getting in to the routine of taking pictures of my food intake. This probably all sounds rather extreme, but as an "experiment", I think as many variables need to be measured as possible, and food is an important part of this. Maybe this will also give me some added motivation if I know you guys will be critical if I eat anything off "the plan".

What is "the plan"? Well, I aim to eat 1.5g of protein for every lb that I weigh. I weigh around 215lbs, so that's around 320g of protein. The next aim is to eat less than 50g of fat per day. The rest of my calorie requirements will be filled with carbs (complex carbs as much as possible). During the cutting cycle (which I'll be doing up until I start taking the steroid) I'll be trying to get a deficit of around 500 calories per day. 1 day in 7 (usually a Friday) I shall also be doing a so called "cheat day". Exact amounts will be stored in FitDay (see link in my favourite links to get to my public FitDay profile).

A quick summary of a cheat day is that you can eat more fatty foods. I'll be keeping my breakfasts and protein intake up, but for two meals I shall allow myself to have more fat content. As I understand it, the reasoning is that your body will "realise it is not starved of fat" and can therefore continue to burn fat during the week rather than try and keep hold of fat in the body.