04/03/25 - 194.5
50 days left of cutting, sticking to 2 meals and 1 to 2 snacks. I eat from lunch onwards, I’m hungry in the mornings but it’s easy enough to distract myself until lunch, then I can eat a big lunch, my wife actually commented yesterday that I was eating a week’s worth of food, in one meal, slight exaggeration, but looking at the size of food on the plate I was sceptical I would finish it. I did and could have done more and I was hungry for my snack, of which there were 2 yesterday.
Funny how volume of food doesn’t really equal satiety, the body is too smart for that - for reference the meal was probably just over half a lb of 5% beef mince in bolognese sauce, 2 bell peppers, a large onion, half a bag of cherry tomatoes, spring onions, 2 chillis, and half a bag, approx 500g, of baby potatoes.
I am noticing a loss of energy on the fasted walks, and a general feeling of dragging myself through the day, my body knows it’s been in a deficit for a while now!
Down around 12.5lbs, in 13 weeks, which is bang on, it’s not been linear and whilst my food selection has been very good, it’s the quantity that’s made the loss less linear, but I’m not counting and I’m finding it straightforward, I’m also not struggling too badly with the mental side of it, I assume because the slow changes are less noticeable so it’s less dramatic and I’ve probably not ever got depleted, so don’t ever feel flat.
It’s a shame that training has been less than ideal with my injuries, but to be honest it’s probably better than being mid way through a productive gaining season where you’re making progress across the board and feeling on fire then getting cut short.
Walking daily still, not really making much note of it here, it varies usually around 1.5-2.5 miles, always fasted with caffeine and ecgc.
I’ve also developed, what feels like at present, a minor cold, but that’s not helping me feel full of life and energy.
Today’s lifting:
A1) Seated Sumo stretch: 10kg x 8 x 3 sets
A2) gladiator deadlift stretch: 7.5kg x 3 x 3 sets (focused on breathing into the stretch and getting deeper).
Deadlifts: 60, 100, 120, 140kg x 5
Seated OHP: 40, 50, 60, 70kg x 5, 80kg x 4
B1) chin ups: bw, bw, 10, 20kg x 5, 10kg x 10, bw x 15
B2) dips: bw, bw, 10, 20kg x 5, 10kg x 15, bw x 20
C1) clown curls: 7.5kg x 23, 19
C2) (Clown) DB skull crushers: 7.5kg x 24, 23
Rehab was a little better in terms of range of motion and feeling, deadlifts felt hard, 140kg was the set that felt best back wise, was tempted by 160kg, but no need to rush here, just jealous of watching @simo74 absolutely crush a deadlift session!
Seated OHP is going well, that top set saw some dubious “sitting” - a little lift off, every time I’ve done this it’s a default PR, that top set definitely felt like a legit PR today, not confident I’d have got 5. Looking forward to seeing how this progresses once I’m gaining weight, could be my cheating way of getting the 2 plate ohp, my 5/4/3/2 goal hasn’t been forgotten in the cutting madness.
Chins started as chins but hurt my shoulder even unweighted, so moved straight to neutral grip, no point playing silly games, don’t need any more silly prizes!
Can’t tell if my CV recovery is getting worse (seems odd given the increased walking and decreased bw weight), or if it’s cold/cut/tiredness all at kicking in but today felt like I needed extra rest between sets and breathing was a bit harder, also got light headed on the 10kg x 10 rep chins and 20 x be dips. It’s also pretty warm today considering it’s April 
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The pump on those clown exercises is great, feel like a bodybuilder, partly because its silly exercises and light weight, but also because I put on a 80’s luminous headband to stop sweat running into my eyes, ridiculous looking, but arms look gnarly! (Well as gnarly as my little pistols can).
Good session overall.
