12/30/24 –

With a few days left in 2024, I am back to thinking about what my ideal routine is. In the last few weeks of 2024, I’ve fallen off a bit. I was on track to establish a few good habits, but, as has become all too common for me, I took a few days off, which then turned into weeks. Now, I’m forcing myself to start again. I have stuck to one thing though. Cold showers. I hate them, but it feels so good to be able to say that I’ve stuck with cold showers now for over 2 years.

In 2025, one of the first things that I will do is execute my first “Cut”. I paid for the year membership of MyFitnessPal and I’ve been tracking my caloric input on a daily basis along with macros and other nutrients. My goal in these next two weeks is to try and identify what my caloric baseline is. I’m tackling this using the good old trial and error approach. I used an online calculator to get a rough estimate on what my caloric baseline would be. That put me at around 2600 Kcal. Along with that, I am also tracking my weight every morning. This morning I was at 201.4. The two days before that, I was at 198.6. I will keep tracking my food and weight and that will give me a really good baseline for what my body’s basic caloric needs are. At that point, my plan is to cut 300 Kcal from the baseline and that will be the official start to my cut. I also got a container of multivitamins and Magnesium with D3 and Zinc. Not sure If I need all that, but MyFitnessPal also tracks some vitamins, so I’ll keep an eye on that and see where I stand. I will also be reading up on the importance of all these vitamins so I can get a better grasp of why I need these and what I may be missing. So how does this fit into my daily routine? Here’s what I’m thinking:

1) Weigh myself every morning after I wake up.

2) Standardize my food intake time. (Breakfast, lunch, dinner)

3) The Goal is to make this part of my routine almost automatic so that I can free up some time to work on other things like this blog, working out, and reading. While, also moving the needle towards building a better physique.

Macros for the meals above:

Breakfast: 71.9 g Carbs, 28.4 g Fat, 36.9 g protein

Lunch: 112 g Carbs, 21.9 g Fat, 45.7 g Protein

Dinner: 41.5 g Carbs, 19.8 g Fat, 50.7 g Protein (Picture not shown – 160g Ribeye steak with 180 grams of baked potato wedges)

Exercise: 30 minutes of Morning Cardio and 45-60 minutes of Evening Weightlifting. 5 Days a week.

Another thing I will also work on in 2025 is waking up at 4:30 AM and heading straight to the gym for my morning cardio and ab session. I’ll post about this one in my next post.