Final Post

This is it! Lots of changes are coming soon, but I'm ready. Much thanks for this feeling of readiness goes out to this Wise class. This class has helped me learn so much about the topics I've studied, but more importantly about ideas and things that I hadn't explored yet. High School taught me tons, but independence, passion, etc., are not as much of a focus as note taking, writing, etc., in High School classes. After completing this project I know I have a ton of work to do in order to improve, but I'm so happy I chose to take this class. I will be recommending the class to my little sister, younger players on the tennis team, and anyone else that I can!

Day 8

Last night was Prom, and also my cheat day. I allowed myself to eat junk food yesterday. The amounts were still limited, but I kept it to a minimum amount. I'm now more than halfway through the diet, and just starting to get a hang of it. It really isn't that bad once you get started. I would be fine with making the diet more intense for a competition or another thing, but for now I will keep the intensity at it's current level.

This is my last day to send project materials out. I'm spending the rest of the day finishing the narrative and converting the blog into a pdf.

Day 5

Its day 5 of the diet now. Today I had really low energy levels, so I allowed myself to eat a large sized lunch, and now I feel better again. Other than early today, everything was still going very nicely. I'm editing a couple of the videos I filmed, the next one up will be short video of me explaining my diet and then going through pictures of what I ate that day.

Tons of school final projects have overloaded me this and last week. I finished by government work on Wednesday, am now halfway through Statistics project I hope to finish tomorrow, and then will finish my Wise project throughout the weekend. It's going to be a lot of work, I'm nowhere near finished on the Wise Presentation.

Video #3

Day 4

Its day 4 of the diet now. My energy levels are down slightly. I can't see much of a difference yet either. My weight may have dropped slightly but I can't be sure because of weight fluctuation. I've stayed away from all junk food, anything high carb, and have limited my meals. I'd say it's all going very well so far. Yesterday I did cardio for about 30 min. I may do it again today.

Diet Plan

Here's a plan of the diet I'm following the next two weeks. I decided that I won't be tracking calories, but instead following the guidelines I set earlier in the project:
1. No Junkfood (Anything high sugar, high fat)
2. Don't overeat (Eat Slowly, Pay attention to how you feel)
3. Drink water instead of other drinks (Avoid juices, etc)
4. Don't snack (No grabbing a bites as you pass through the kitchen)
5. Decrease meal size slightly (If you would normally eat 8 things of whatever, now eat 7 whatevers)
6. Keep a goal (Stay motivated by keeping a goal! Have an image or a weight)
7. Spread out your meals (This way you are hungry for shorter gaps of time)

Days 1-6 Follow rules
Day 7 Cheat day, still don't go crazy
Days 8-14
Days 15,16 Carb up

The goal of the cut is to lose as much bodyfat as I can. I will track weight but because the timeline is short I don't expect to see much change. Eating higher amounts of carbs on the last day will make my muscles look "fuller" and shaped better.

End of tennis season

That's it! My high school tennis career finished up yesterday. I finished 1-2 at states this year, not how I wanted to finish, but better than what would have happened if I hadn't worked so hard to heal up. If I hadn't put in the full hour every day towards my PT, icing, taping, etc I wouldn't have played at all this year at States.
Officials knew the stories of my injuries, and recognized that my game had taken a step down from last year. They also saw that I handled my losses calmly even though I knew I could have won. I received the sportsmanship award for my section much because of this.

So moving on to the last two weeks of my project, I'm going to do a very short, but strict diet. Due to the length of the diet, I don't expect to see too much results. It is more of an experiment to understand what bodybuilders go through up to a show. I will be counting calories and tracking macro-nutrients.