So lately I have been having gnarly stomach problems, and digestion problems, they would wake me up once or twice a night, and I would feel like crawling and dragging my stomach on the ground, anything to get rid of the pain, i would then eat tums like they were going out of style and after about 30 minutes of pacing back and forth it would go away, BACK TO SLEEP.
army doc put me on prilosec once a day, but that was it, gave me some tests, but I have yet to hear back about it. so I decided to do some changes of my own, im on a "high protein" diet trying to maximize the muscle growth and keep my mass. Im not trying to get big and fat, but I want to be as strong as possible seeing as competing in powerlifting is my goal. i would like to be lean because I feel healthy when im not eating 2 pizzas a day, but I dont want to lose any possible gains I could be having.
So im weighing about 200-202, used to be 210 but randomly dropped 10 lbs.
i WAS eating 1.5 pounds of chicken a day, but i was not eating very many veggies or carbs i guess, Im not a nutritionist, and everytime i ask to speak to one, i am ignored.
Im betting this could of been a problem with these stomach pains. so now im eating 2 lbs of chicken spread out between 4-5 meals, and I also include pasta and some veggies in each meal, switching between, carrots, spinach, green beans, and black beans. im thinking im probably eating too much chicken too, so once I do my first push-pull meet in the 20th I am going to change the diet up, to having it be around 200-250 total grams of protein in everything, not just based off of my chicken and egg intake, also hope to throw some steak and home made hamburgers in there. also instead of pasta im thinking about eating sweet potatoes with each meal. and eating more fruit. but chicken and ground beef will probably be the main meals because Im getting out of the army, and moving to a brand new place, aka, new job, new atmosphere, and trying to find a new job, so it will be slim pickings for a little while.
I am reading
Power Eating by Susan Kleiner, PhD, it is a very interesting book, got it used on amazon for like 4 bucks. it raises a lot of interesting points about diet, but a lot of it is around body building and cutting. what i really want is a steady diet maximizing my gain, but not making me a fat slob, im pretty sure there is a diet plan in there about it, but I am just reading it front to back to learn as much as I can. A person that reviewed the book said it was good but that
Optimum Sports Nutrition by Dr. Michael Colgan, was better, so i purchased that too, used for less than 5, Im telling you, if you can accept a messed up cover, you can get 30 dollar books for chump change. anyways, I will read optimum sports nutrition afterwards, and compare them back and forth as I go, Dr Colgan was on the board of the olympics, so it will be interesting to see his input. I really cannot wait for someone to come out with a nutrition book for powerlifters. isn't Jessie Burdick a nutritionist? Lets make this happen.
Seeing as how nutrition is what fuels us, I am pretty interested in maximizing my potential with it, and learning how I can supercharge myself as well as help myself recover through proper eating.
to sum it all up.
im pretty much stuck in the same situation as when I screwed up my shoulder, the doctors just say stop doing what your doing instead of trying to help you find a solution, some health providers are tough to deal with, but hey more knowledge for me to be able to pass on to others once I figure it out.
also I have been sleeping like shit, waking up tired every morning, and waking up about 2-3 times a night. but im assuming its stress from the big life change, so hopefully planets will aline allowing me to not over think all this change.
yea
