Diet Carbs,Protien & Fat

Here is my personal experience with diet change. I am generally healthy eater but wasn't checking my macro nutrients. basically you want to have about 40% carbs, 30% protein and 30% fat in your diet.

I'm being a vegetarian struggle a lot for protein. alternatives for me are protein shake, protein bars and protein rich food like peanut butter, nuts, beans, dairy.
so i now start monitoring macros  and increase my protein but my tummy was not happy with the sudden change.

so anyone who has similar issues here is what i did

1. increase your protein slowly.
2. along with protein you want to monitor/increase/maintain fiber levels.

to do this  i started to include fruits and vegetables in my diet.

Breakfast at least 2 different fruits (banana, pear, berries etc)
Dinner: vegetables (salads, stir fry, grilled veggies, baked/boiled vegetables).

this helped me a lot.

Not seeing results after 20 weeks of workout

I have successfully completed 20 weeks of T25 (Alpha and Beta ) but i'm not where i wanted to be. here are some of the mistakes i made

Before I started T25  my BMI was Normal, so i only wanted to shape up and reduce body fat %.

First 10 weeks i lost about 10lbs but not much on the body fat. i thought i would see some difference after 20 weeks. I completed my 20 weeks yesterday but still not much change.

I was disappointed and wanted to find where did i go wrong and here are my findings.

1. After 10 weeks my body was hinting me somthing that i did not understand or just ignored it.
2. I did not loose any weight after 10 weeks, that should have been a hint from the body that i ignored too.

now when i look back, i realized when you are working out (especially programs like T25, Insanity, P90X etc) you are burning a lot of calories (anywhere between 500 to 1200 per day). which mean you have to give your body more food.

after realizing i did a small experiment, i wanted to see if i increase food intake will my waist size increase too? that will be an indicator to see if my body is storing extra food as fat or just burning it off.

so 3 days before i was about to complete mt T25 Beta i bumped my calorie intake (from 1800 calories to 2400 calories). I was surprised to see increase in my weight but not in waist size. I know 3 days is not enough so will be keeping track and see how it goes.

Before Picture

This is my before picture. I have skinny fat and trying to get into shape. hopefully i'll be where i wanted to by end of the year. You see Big Pot Belly, No muscles.

Day 1

It was almost midnight of December 31 2013 and i had to find a resolution fo 2014. i was running out of time when it suddenly struck to me why not try for a 6 pack. this will not only get me into healthy eating and working out but also keeps me motivated to achieve my goal.

January 1st 2014 i started with Shau T's T25 workout. Its only 25 minutes of non-stop workout, it is not easy but you should be able to take 25 minutes to get it done. Shaun is a good coach and motivates you throughout the workout.