I am setting out to leave for my parents this afternoon. We are going on a family camping trip up near Fort Brag on Thursday and will be camping until Sunday. Where we will be at there is very poor cell phone service. This means no texting, no checking emails, no logging into my adsense account and no twittering.  Its gonna kill me yet it will be so nice just to get away.

My parents and their very good friends go on an annual “Abalone-fest” this time of year and have been for like 20 years. The men go diving for the abalone and then on Saturday there is a huge BBQ in which all the abalone is cooked. There are about 10 families participating in this and this is the first year I am able to attend. My son has gone with my parents for 2 years in a row now but I was unable to go before. I’ve never had abalone and I am looking forward to it.

I’m preparing myself to be ridiculed by family and and possibly some of these other families as they see me mixing my protein shakes while camping. The diet I am following is a very high protein diet in which most of my protein comes in the form of shakes. I have 4 protein shakes a day and then 2 normal meals of 500 calories each. The P90X diet was not working too well for me. It had me eating way too many calories and I have only lost 3 lbs in the 3 weeks of doing P90X. I should be dropping at least 2 lbs a week so I did some research and now I am following the rule of eating my lean muscle mass in protein grams. So for example if you weigh 200 lbs but your body fat is 30%, you would subtract 30 from 200. 200 – 30 = 170 so a 200 lb person would have to consume 170g of protein a day to maintain the lean mass and encourage the fat to be burned. I’ve been eating this way for 2 days and already dropped 1/2 a pound. And it is MUCH easier for me to eat without counting carbs or dumb rules about eating carbs before 2pm or only 1 fruit serving a day etc. I just make sure I get my protein shakes in first and then everything else revolves around whatever calories remain for the day.

I had a fantabulous adsense day yesterday, $30.94. I also did $27 the day before so that was nice!

Sorry not much of an update on things I am doing for my sites. So far this week I just did some more sick profile backlinking, wrote some ezines and went back over some sites built in march to fix their meta descriptions and add more LSI words.

I’ll see you guys next Tuesday when I return from our trip.