El Bloggo de Josho

We have been doing good as far as our P90X work.  So far we haven’t skipped any workouts and have kept diet deviations to a minimum.  If you have direct questions about the diet, email me, or post it in the comments, but I was just going to comment on it a little.

P90X gives you two options for the diet.  You can follow their recipes and do the “meal plan” where every meal for the 90 days is planned out for you.  You can also do the “portion plan” option where you eat a certain number of proteins, carbs, fats, daily and it gives you a list of what exactly constitutes 1 carb, 1 fat, etc.

We chose to follow the portion plan.  There are three levels based on your current weight.  Since I’m much bigger than Emily I’m on Level III and she’s on Level II.  That means that we each get different amounts of food per day (I get more).  Here is the list of foods that I get.

9 Proteins

4 Dairy

2 Fruit

4 Vegetables

1 Fat

1 Carb

2 Double Snacks

2 Condiments

An example of 1 protein would be 6 egg whites (and I need 9 every day).  1 Carb would be 2 slices of bread.

Of the whole program thus far, the diet has to be the hardest.  Even if we’re tired and sore (which is everyday) it is easy to push play and do the workouts.  It is tough every day and every meal to eat correctly.  It seems to be getting easier, but it is far from easy.

We have made some of the meals outlined in the meal plan.  The vegetable soup is amazing, and the shrimp stir-fry was horrible but I think I (we) overcooked the veggies.  I’ll put some pictures down below of those two.