If you train smart you won’t be weaker.
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In the long run, yep.
It still doesn’t negate the regression of adaptation nor the skewed ratio
Even in the short run. The way you currently train is not ideal for building strength. I think you’re aware of this? It’s tough when you have opposing goals.
Either way, I don’t see you being more than 4 weeks away from where you were once you step back into a gym.
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Let’s hope that pans out 
You’re correct, and I’ve addressed this before.
@flappinit, good posts.
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Reminds me of this quote:
“Can anything be more idiotic than certain people who boast of their foresight? They keep themselves officiously preoccupied in order to improve their lives; they spend their lives in organizing their lives. They direct their purposes with an eye to a distant future. But putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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As intelligent and self-aware as you are, I think @vision1 is right about 4 weeks to baseline strength if you prioritize strength now. From personal experience, I immediately PR’d my first time back in the gym after a whole summer of exclusively bodyweight work. I wasn’t exactly a noob either. Muscle is muscle, and the smarter you are the better you can apply that muscle correctly and make strength gains.
It’s not easy at all, but the quicker you can view your particular circumstances as an opportunity to grow (stronger/better/healthier), the more you will grow. I know it’s cliche as literal balls, but it’s a pretty universal truth and would probably help you with other circumstances outside of the gym as well.
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What did you mean by “skewed ratio”? Are you concerned about your relative strength dropping due to added body weight? Hypertrophy and relative strength will increase together for a while. I doubt you’d hit your peak relative strength before 110 - 120 lbs.
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Well, I’m making good progress with my “light workouts “, so hopefully that translates well in 5 months 
You should do “heavy” workouts so that you can ensure you kick ass in 5 months! Does your family live in a house or apartment? And if house, do you have a yard or woods nearby where you can (safely) look for logs/rocks to use as weights? Primitive, but you could find stuff to actually make your lifts strenuous in the 1-5 rep range and get stronger.
My 45 kB kB is doing that pretty well for pistols but I’m at 3now. The goal is 10+ by the time I get back . Upper body is press. I want a triple with the 45 and 15+ on the one arm push-ups
No
I have skipped a bunch of posts, so maybe somebody already said this already and done a better job of it…but this happens to all of us. Mysterious weight gain/loss. Totally inexplicable.
That is because your body - while it generally adheres to certain rules - sometimes doesn’t give a shit about your sodium intake, how much water you are putting through your system or if you ate a whole pizza yesterday. It does what it does. It will even out over time. Your weight gain is a good thing.
I have eaten nothing but pizza now for three days. I am a half kilo lighter as a result. What is happening? Who cares.
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Tbh, This is what I needed to hear. I was afraid I’d done something wrong/missed something
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Keep in mind the body has a way of trying to defend itself. It is a survival mechanism. If you start trying to put on quality weight, it may resist for a while. And then suddenly it will give in. Your body is giving in, and that is what you wanted it to do. Let it happen.
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Paraphrasing probably, don’t remember who wrote it, but “your body loves to hate you”. It doesn’t really care about how you look. It’s just trying to keep you alive. This goes for weight gain and weight loss.
Excess blood sugar isn’t too good for the body as the complex organism it is so it does what it can to get rid of that.
Suddenly one’s stool is more caloric, one can’t sit still without fidgeting etc. CICO is fundamentally what rules in a physics sense but modify calories in in any way you can expect that calories out will get regulated somehow. Stasis is at 1:1. This is why people generally try and tell you to avoid super small modifications to calories in.
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Bookmarked for future thought, thank you.
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Apologies for being slightly absent.
My thoughts on this are:
A) @flappinit has it absolutely nailed. He’s a smart man, and 15 likes above tells me other people agree.
B) I think you should consider what you mean by “understands lifting/working out”. I’m not quite clear what you mean by that.
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One that does it consistently and loves it
I think we’ve figured this out two training logs ago
40 min kickboxing workout
- was supossed to do lower workout, but knees wouldn’t have it. felt really quick and good, pretty intense too
Tbh, I’m not sure how valuable it would be to have a therapist who understands lifting/working out, simply because you don’t seem to listen to what folks here say.
I believe your relationship with lifting and dieting is toxic. I agree with Flappinit- you have an eating disorder and a very warped mental image of your body.
Anna, what you’re doing isn’t discipline- I feel it’s the very opposite.
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