Today is New Year's Eve and I rang in the New Year on New York time.  I am not a person who stays up late because my body just decides it is time to go to sleep and so I go to sleep.  It is the result of getting up early for the gym each day.

Today was a great day. First, it was an all protein day for Metabolic Surge and that's always tough to fill up with enough calories, but I managed to eat nothing but protein and drink nothing but plain water all day.

My workout today was amazing.  Today called for me to do 3 sets at 15 reps and so I decided to push up the weight about 5 pounds on each exercise.  When I was done with the workout I was exhausted.  See the results below in the accountability log for today.  I began to feel the workout in my body about 3 hours later.  My entire body is aching from the deadlifts.  I was shaking when I was done with them.

I do not make resolutions.  Instead, I am going to make a guarantee.  I guarantee that I will end 2008 as a lean, mean, fat burning machine.  There, I've said it and now it is here for to push me forward all year long!

Accountability  Log:

	Mission 1:  Day 6 of 40	Accountability
	Meal/Training Plan:  Real-time accountability	Each task completed?
	Day 67: December 31, 2007	Yes or No
4:00 a.m.	Meal 1:  Protein shake with oatmeal with 3 glasses of water	Yes
4:00 a.m.	Supplements:  Animal Pak, Glucosamine Chondroiten, calcium, chromium, glutamine	Yes
4:30 a.m.	Workout:  Weightlifting, HIIT cardio (30 minutes),  chin up training with 3 glasses of water	Yes
6:00 a.m.	Supplements:  Protein shake with glutamine and 3 glasses of water	Yes
9:00 a.m.	Meal 2: Tuna (6 oz) with 3 glasses of water	Yes
12:00 p.m.	Meal 3:  Tuna (12 oz) and 3 glasses of water	Yes
3:00 p.m.	Meal 4:  Chicken breasts (2) and 3 glasses of water	Yes
6:00 p.m.	Meal 5:  Lean beef (6 oz) and 3 glasses of water	Yes
9:00 p.m.	Supplements:  Protein shake with glutamine, calcium and 3 glasses of water	Yes
	Accountability Areas:	Points	Possible
	Meal 1	1	1
	Meal 2	1	1
	Meal 3	1	1
	Meal 4	1	1
	Meal 5	1	1
	Training	1	1
	Post Workout Nutrition	1	1
	Water	1	1
	Pre-sleep nutrition	1	1
	Accountability	1	1
	Daily Totals:	10	10
	Mission Totals:	48	50
	Workout Log:
	HIIT Cardio	30 minutes
	Chin up challenge	(90) 5 x 5	[PB]
	Push up challenge training	5 sets for 101 total
	Squats	210 x 15; 210 x 15;          210 x 14	[PB]
	Deadlifts	205 x 13; 205 x 14;        205 x 13
	Step ups	30 x 15 x 3
	Bulgarian Split Squats	35 x 15 x 3
	[PB] = Personal Best

Form was essential on these lifts. I also needed to use straps for the first time on my deadlifts.  I wanted to be sure I could lift on all sets.  While I was short on the scheduled repetitions, the deadlifts kicked my butt.  I could not have done another rep if my life depended upon it.

I hope you all have/had a Happy New Year!

Until tomorrow...