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Well I’ve had my iPhone 3G from Rogers for a few weeks now and I love it! Still not a fan of Rogers however. Anyways, I jailbroke it about two days after I got it. The iPhone is much more useful once it’s been opened up. I did brick it on my first attempt but after unchecking the “Active the phone” option everything went smoothly.

Usually I don’t like to make changes to things that work but I really wanted to try out Fring, a free VOIP app for the iPhone. Unfortunately there were a few snags:

1. The original PwnageTool didn’t support installer.app.
2. Fring is installed through Installer.

Fortunately yesterday the iphone dev team, creators of PwnageTool, released PwnageTool 2.0.3.1 which includes a beta version of installer.app. While I hate to blow away all tweaks, it’d be worth it if I can get Fring to work and make skypeOut calls.

Hopefully I don’t brick my phone again. I’ll update this post as I upgrade with a jailbroken firmware and hopefully get Fring to work.

Here are the basic tools you need:

1. One 3G iPhone
2. PwnageTool 2.0.3.1 (sha1 checksum: a3faf5c074d5556a40ce4c7678a51995b5767073)
3. iPhone 2.0.2 5C1 Firmware
4. Instructions from Lifehacker (I ? lifehacker)

It is impossible to ever see the Whole Picture. The Whole Picture is at least fifth dimensional. Our vision is limited to the third and we can only guess at the forth.

Thanks to some great suggestions from Kelly and Paul on my initial Zone calculations post, I revised the numbers to get closer to the 2000 calories a day.

I have 138lbs of lean body mass, so 138/7 = ~ 20 protein zone blocks a day. Following Kelly’s suggestions, I’m keeping carbs at 16 blocks and tripling the fat to 60 blocks a day. In calories this works out to:

(20 * 4kcal * 7g) + (16 * 4kcal * 9g) + (60 * 9kcal * 1.5) = 1946 calories / day.

While this is not exactly as high as I think it should be, it is a good starting point. I’ll try this out for 3 months and see where I am after that. Here is the meal and zone block breakdown per day.

Juggling things around a bit for Crossfit, which I usually do, 3 times a week at 5:00pm. I have this meal plan:

This seems like a very reasonable starting point. Now that I have a foundation on how much and when I need to eat the next task is to figure out what.

A few weeks back I wrote about much I need to eat. However, the numbers really didn’t really make sense using the Zone ratio calculations of 30% protein, 40% carbs and 30% fat for calories. They seemed extremely high as I couldn’t imagine attempting to consume 240g of protein a day.

So I redid the calculations based on the actual formula in Enter The Zone. The numbers worked out to be about half of what I previously calculated. whew. The original Zone formula works like this.

1. Determine the amount of lean body mass you have
2. Determine your activity level
3. Look it up in Appendix E in Enter The Zone. Seriously. This is the missing element. I don’t know how Dr. Sears worked it out the numbers but for the sake of science we’ll stick to it.

Using the method above and the information I from the Bodycomp scan:

1. Lean body mass: 138lbs
2. Activity Level: 0.8 (Crossfit 3 to 4 times a week)
3. Appendix E says I need 112g of protein a day.

Okay, 112g of protein works out to exactly 16 protein zone blocks. Here are the relationships between the proteins, carbs and fats to zone blocks.

• 7 grams of protein = 1 zone block
• 9 grams of carbohydrates = 1 zone block
• 1.5 grams of fat = 1 zone block

The Zone recommends a ratio of 1:1:1 for protein, carbs and fat. I will need to spread 112g of protein, 114 grams of carbs and 24 grams of fat throughout the day into 3 meals and 2 snacks. One alarming thing is that if you add up the calories it seems very low:

(112 * 4) + (114 * 4) + (24 * 9) = 1120 calories a day.

I got the calorie calculations from: http://www.nutristrategy.com/nutrition/calories.htm. For the sake of accuracy there are a few other sites that confirm that 4 calories = 1g of protein, 4 calories = 1g of carbs and 9 calories = 1g of fat.

I’ll run this by my trainers at Crossfit to see what their opinions are.

Well this is how I feel today…