I never got to this because I found Flappinit and Punnyguy’s conversation funny.
Beef shank, as far as I am aware, is low on fat. Your body craved butter, not beef.
So… no, I don’t think this means anything.
Your body craved fat and you gave it some protein and flavored water (watermelon) instead.
I’m probably going to skip today
So the doctor dropped the hammer on my lifting so I’ll need to significantly drop volume and intensity. What’s a minimal program I can do to maintain muscle while not killing my kidneys? (Equipment: 25lb kb, 45lb kB, 11lb paint can)
I’ll also have to cut an hour of walking. How should I adjust nutrition as not to get fat as I probably won’t be putting on any quality size
I feel great now but I have stuff to do and can’t workout despite this. This ALWAYS happens 
Should be quite possible.
Seems incompatible with your prior post,
You’re so far distanced from fat it’s not even on the horizon.
If you adjust nutrition you are just perpetuating the issue by again adjusting the equation of training/nutrition to a self-harm balance. You’re just finding it at a point of less nutrients and less expenditure.
My guess is that if you want to get back to a state where you’re not medically required to reduce your activity you are going to have to gain weight. Some of that will be fat.
If you reduce calories in you’re looking down the barrel of further reductions to your activity down the line.
It is, which is the frustrating part. I wake up feeling horrible, the after an hour or two, I suddenly feel great
Look up Easy Strength (Dan John). Pretty sure it would be modifiable to your needs and goals. If in doubt, he does a weekly podcast that people can ask question on for his personal opinion.
Intensity is low, frequency is high.
Sorry I don’t have time for a more detailed reply.
The concern here is my kidneys. If fucking COVID wasn’t here, I could easily switch to a low volume strength program and still make significant (if not better) progress while avoiding “life threatening “ muscle damage (creatinine release into blood stresses kidneys).
Luckily, if the US gets its shit together, I’ll still be back in the gym in 5 months when I return to school
Everyone has been telling you this, not just your doctor. Your volume and intensity was much too high to make progress. 3 high intensity days per week, maybe 1 low intensity day per week (sweat but no struggle whatsoever) and 3 days off. You will make better gains that way anyways, you just need to try it and see the results and then maybe your brain will finally grasp what you were doing wrong.
Nutrition does not need adjusting, continue eating 2k+
Days don’t exist in isolation. You’re paying the price for something when you feel like crap. That’s either from overworking, undereating, not sleeping well (which is influenced by the former two) or some combination thereof. Sometimes it’s other stuff but it’s really impossible for me to tell from here when all of those aspects are presumed to not be up to snuff.
I need to avoid muscle damage, which is from what I understand, the primary mechanism for hypertrophy. Idk of high intensity would work. I need something that stresses the CNS more than muscles for “intensity “
That being said, hard conditioning is out
You are misinformed on the meaning of high intensity. I’ve noticed that in the past, I think you understand it as a difficult workout that gets your heart rate pumping?
Something like the following:
Warmup
Jumps or Sprints: 3-5 x 3-5
Weighted Pistols: 3 sets, reps below 8 per leg, not to failure
1-Arm Pushups: 3 sets, again, stay a few reps away from failure, focus on speed
Row variation: 3 x 5-8
Higher rep ab work okay to add at the end or on your low intensity day.
Okay and on low intensity days I can do more rows and some hamstring stuff?
days or day? Haha 3 days per week of no exercise please.
Yes you can add more rowing if needed but I think you’d be better off with some very light running, some ab work, some stretching. Maybe pickup yoga.
If you don’t mind me asking, what were your creatinine levels measured?
Nope, false. It’s one out of four. It’s a good pathway for people with high testosterone levels and a certain genetic make-up.
Why the quotes?
1.17
The main problem is that my egfr is 68, eerily close to the 60 cutoff
Life threatening generally has the connotation of immediate danger
Ya those aren’t great numbers, especially for someone your size. I don’t know how the results are affected by only have 1 kidney.
Were you told to eat less red meat? I assume you’re not taking creatine?
My numbers were poor on one test but that was mostly a dehydration issue (you seem to drink a lot of water so not a concern).
I have 2 kidneys, but since my right one ( the shit one) is at 30 ish % capacity- irreparable and my left one is at about 80% (reparable), I basically have 1 kidney.
The goal is to get my Left kidney working as close to full capacity as possible so it won’t matter if the right one isn’t working
yes, unfortunately grill nights haven’t helped lately 
The results were taken back in december before lockdown, so we’re scrambling to get a test done ASAP to see what’s been happening now
no and never had
It’s part of the reason I was asymptomatic despite my right kidney being 2x the normal size. Normally, hydronephrotic kidneys get infected, which causes severe pain. Hydration prevented the infection, so no pain