 All right, so I just got back from the gym. I did some triceps today, and then a little cardio Took Duke out this morning time to eat breakfast. It's about it's like 115 right now. I'm gonna whip up some breakfast I've had a couple people mention the fact that I'm shirtless in a lot of my videos And they're like why why why shirtless though and for me the answer is really simple and really easy It's just the fact that when I'm home I'm naturally usually just shirtless and I just usually wear shorts or sometimes I'm just in my underwear and So it's not really conscious choice for me It's just the way that I am and I'm vlogging daily vlogs like just the way that I am So it's just it happens to be how I am most of the time. It's not like I'm deciding Oh, I want to be sure of this in all my videos so I can be like sex. Yeah That wasn't my thought process It's just like if I'm shirtless I'm shirtless if I'm not not that's just the way it is and yeah I don't really give it a second thought so anyway That's my little tangent about that. I Okay, it's 115 I got I'm gonna do eggs I gotta make some potatoes come because I'm all out of my meal prep, so I'll have enough for the week Yesterday my coach said When I went to go do posing with him. He said no more No more Diet Coke, which is my guilty pleasure and no more energy drinks No more anything with artificial Sweeteners it and I asked him why he said because artificial sweeteners can give you inflammation If you for example, like he said if you were used to drinking Diet Coke all the time Then it's probably not an issue your body's probably used to it Which is the case with me. I drink Coke cherry Coke zero all the time It's like it's my guilty pleasure for sure and so it's probably not an issue with me But in the coaching process and with creating the diet and all of that It's just the best practice to take out any variables that might have negative effects Even if they don't necessarily just the potential for it It's best just to do away with it so that you create the best Scenario and you have the best opportunity to do well and for your body to respond well So that's gonna be difficult though for me because I love having my co-op zero with lunch and dinner So instead I have water Ice tea unsweetened and black coffee at this point. Those are my staples I've been drinking a lot of coffee lately, especially first thing in the morning And I do have some news you guys saw the video where I was talking with Tara from Purity Coffee And we're doing a little partnership. I love I love their coffee. It's delicious It's become part of my daily routine now, and I'll be Doing a special little video on that and have a little promotion for you guys Soon I'm just waiting on word from Tara. So we'll see anyway breakfast time. Oh, yeah, um, and then it's actually You know what? Scratch that I'm gonna do some posing because I got to do that actually first I want to do that first thing after my workouts Okay, let's see what I remembered from yesterday Yeah, so the second I gotta build up my endurance for that It's crazy because that last week is so Intense and I'm so drained everyone is and then you're carb-blooding the night before in the morning of You get on stage and you're like still depleted and you're gonna get up there and hold these like intense poses for For quite a while and then like for example when I'm done I go to the side and the next competitor comes out and he does his routine and like I can't just stand there like this I gotta be the entire time like smiling posing changing In the background while they're doing that so it's exhausting And then once everybody's come out and done their poses and I'm standing there still going Then they're like, okay Everybody side by side We go side by side and then we do our mandatory poses next to each other so they can compare us all side by side by side so it's like You're going for a while 10 minutes or so Not on top of just like flexing as hard as you can and trying not to breathe through your stomach Trying to do like these shallow breaths through your chest Anyway, these are the mandatory poses that you do side by side with other competitors That's so that's like That's like the minimum of what they'll have us do side by side and like If they want to see like say i'm The first competitor. There's a second guy and then a third guy and they want to see me next to the third guy They'll be like competitor one Switch with competitor two and then we'll switch and now two and three are next to each other And then they'll have us do more posing so that they can see what we look like And it's exhausting Okay It's good for now. I'm going to eat breakfast