Weekly checkin
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You are looking better.
I don’t keep track of your weigh-ins so I can’t intuit a trend. And with your weekend binging it doesn’t seem fruitful to speculate.
I will however share that recently I was under eating quite severely and continued to gain weight between days and then after two days with a normal, slightly hypercaloric intake, the weight melted off.
I’m not alone in speculating that you tend to undereat and overexercise and while the laws of thermodynamics won’t be violated your biology is trying it’s best to stay alive. That can result in less frequent bowel movements as it tries to retain food long enough to extract as much calories from whatever is in your intestines as possible for instance. Also, caloric deficits result in an increase of cortisol which I believe is associated with holding more water.
I doubt it- I haven’t changed nutrition
This happened a couple weeks ago. I was high for a week or so then randomly dropped (not that that’s the goal.) Digestion has been off for a couple of days now, so 
Also feel absolute crap today
I don’t think you’ve enjoyed a lengthier period of hyper/maintenance caloric intake for a long time. Your weekly average might conceivably be positive but if you undereat 5-6 days a week and make up for it during the weekend I’m guessing that’s less healthy than eating at maintenance for 5 days and undereating on two days.
Not to be combatative with you but read “An Example From Crossfit” in this article and tell me there aren’t parallels to draw between the two of you,
This is happening to you a lot
If I had it my way, I wouldn’t have the grill nights, but they’re a family obligation and I’ve yet to find a way not to eat at least a 3000kval surplus on those days. Any ideas ? I usually “make it up” in 2 days though
ie 3000 Saturday, 1200 Sunday, 2000 Monday, 17-1800 Tuesday, 2000 rest of week
I’ve noticed this too, but idk what’s going on. I haven’t changed much in terms of training and there haven’t been any extra stressors
I’m not sure that it’d be healthy for you to stop them. If we briefly disregard the no-holds-barred eating you engage in during them I believe if you seized eating with other people your eating habits would continue to devolve into less healthy patterns. They are your one source of “normalcy”.
If you ate enough during the week I don’t think you’d have as much of a problem eating “enough” during them. What you must accept is that this won’t turn around in a week. Specifically, if you ate at or above maintenance for the entire week until your next grill night you might still overeat then because of you having underfed for a long time I don’t think you’ll experience satiety for quite a while. When I came out of my deepest gauntness period I just never felt full. Uncomfortable sure, but still hungry. Took months of a sustained surplus to feel genuinely content after a meal.
If what you’ve been engaging in is unsustainable for you eventually it’ll catch up to you. Recall what I quoted about injuries before, acute chronic overuse (or something similar to that), and apply that sentiment here. It seems like it’s out of the blue but it has just been a long time coming. And also, you are stressed more than previously because of covid and changes of circumstance.
Yeah, covid stress is probably catching up with me. Nothing hurts, just nothing wants to work and somehow my upper body is MORE tired today. My core is also somehow trashed so I feel slightly nauseous but mentally want something fatty
About nutrition: somehow I managed not to binge at my school’s buffet yet somehow everything went out the window when left
I really want to try eating in a consistent surplus for a week, but I can’t avoid grill nights. I get into a weird headspace in which I mentally portion out what I allow myself (accounting for a surplus), but as the night goes on, the limits get thrown out the window and “much finish leftovers” mentality kicks in and the next thing I know, I’m justifying finishing off the rest of the steaks… then feel like a failure
You haven’t changed nutrition from the point when your undereating was seriously impacting on your hormonal health? That means you’re undereating.
I’ve been trying really hard not to brow beat you about this stuff, but it really worries me that you seem determined to stick your head in the sand and pretend that your eating habits and mindset are healthy or nothing to be concerned about
100% this. I’ve discovered recently (yes, it’s taken me this long to discover this, I’m slow), that if I take care of my nutrition appropriately on a daily basis, I no longer suffer from severe cravings. To the point that I skip my cheat meals more often than not now, because I just don’t care enough to enjoy them. For me, that’s sufficient veg, replacing almost all liquid calories with real food and keeping healthy fats at a reasonable daily level. For you, it will probably be markedly different because your needs will be different.
Okay, I thinking’s I’m going to bump intake up to 2100 until Saturday and see how that goes
Can I also throw in a suggestion that you increase calories from something other than veg, meat or fruit. From memory you count calories in leafy greens and mushrooms and I don’t think you’re eating as much as you think. Rice, potatoes and bread are all good things.
Also be very mindful of your natural inclination to overcompensate via exercise every time you increase calories.
I can be fairly confident that you will never get fat over even slightly overweight in your life, I’d imagine your BMI is currently underweight?
All very personal stuff so apologies for that!
Haha! I don’t, I’m probably realistically eating closer to 2200 when counting veg
You probably eat a small country worth of veg!
Also my point still stands you eat a crap load of veg and when you increase cals some extra carbs might be your friend (my latest PR came on the back of a lot of pastries and chocolate!)
2-3 cups of spinach at breakfast, 2lbs of cauliflower between lunch and dinner, sometimes a cucumber thrown in
Haha! I was pretty fat in primary school (100lbs as a 4ft 3rd grader). Although… I was eating philly cheese steaks as snacks
2lbs of cauliflower is a really, really large amount of cauliflower. An absolutely ridiculous amount of cauliflower. That’s several heads of cauliflower.
Being fat as a small child doesn’t count! (Plus I have no idea what 3rd grade is as an age, but that weight at 4ft doesn’t sound horrific (maybe not ideal but not fat), the fact that you weigh less now sounds more concerning.
I buy 2lb bags then make a mash with some chicken stock
Try eating 2lbs of lasagna a day instead, way more fun!
Haha! I don’t like pasta. I’d rather have 2lbs of meat
