This was also common for me while doing DW. By the fourth or fifth set I’d be ravenous.
I’d set up my oven before lifting on sundays and cook a whole chicken so that it’d be just finishing up as I was. I’d eat the entire thing. This is ON TOP of my normal daily intake which consisted of multiple cuts of beef, half a dozen to a dozen eggs, bacon, peanut butter, whole milk, veggies and dressing. It was essentially not stop food-shoveling.
Which, speaking of daily intake, I didn’t restrict the calories on days I wasn’t lifting. I’d eat the same thing, day in and day out, just TRYING to keep from under recovering.
@anna_5588 I have poked my head in here a few times since you’ve commented in my log, and seen your posts in the FFCT… If you cared 1/10th of a shit less about your body comp/weight/lifting ratios I can guarantee you’d see immediate progress, and not just in lifting.
I find it hard to believe that you’re getting that much carbs out of vegetables in a day, since I don’t think I have the capacity to consume that much vegetables in a day myself. Here’s what 20g looks like, and you’re eating 12.5x this per day?
Of course, some vegetables are more carb-dense, but honestly tomatoes are about as carb-dense as it gets, unless you’re talking undigestible fiber.
edit: you said Kcal, not grams. Sorry, I misread. Not a lot of calories from veggies, then. Still, even eating 3x this amount, which is what you’re saying, is a lot of vegetables.
The breakfast is pretty constant. It used to be toast and egg whites, but mum stopped forcing me to eat toast so I have more eggs.
Lunch and dinner vary but it’s always protien+ veggies.
The protein bar is also constant
The before bed snack depends a lot on how many calories I have left. If lunch and/or dinner was large and fatty, I might only have 100 or so calories left. In that case, I’d have a scoop of protein powder or honey and cacao IF lunch and dinner were very light, I might have 5-600 left, in which case I might have a 4-6oz package of some type of cheese
Another comment. This way of thinking is detrimental to trying to build strength and recover from serious workouts. Scrimping down to the last 100 calories should only be for when someone is seriously trying to cut, not when they’re trying to gain strength.
I dunno, high rep squats get pretty unpleasant really quickly, even with light weights. When i was doing MMS I was doing 50 rep sets with as light as 40% and still getting absolutely floored.
I learned about GC from clients when I worked with kids. Vast majority were poor, and it was a big “for my birthday” kind of place for them. When I wandered in I was astonished at how fresh and tasty things were. Again, mine is new and nice and in an affluent tourist area, so maybe that’s why. But it’s just head and shoulders above places like Ponderosa, which when I made the mistake of going grossed me out as soon as I wasn’t ravenous.
I absolutely LOVE that I can veggie to my hearts content while having like 3 pieces of fried okra and whatever other sin food caught my eye. Just heaven, especially after a hike or trampoline session. Ours is on the way to the airport as well, so a good way to begin the coma needed to survive a cross-country trip.
Growing up, my dad called these “weasel words”. In past discussions I found your use of language to be pretty non precise and lead to confusion (saying the goal is “powerlifting” when you mean simply to hit certain numbers in the big 3 for example), and often this can be employed as a means of obscuring facts.
Which is why I say binging is the opposite of what I advocate. But eating to support recovery for training (which will include bodyweight gain) is definitely necessary to “do what I do”
I have a feeling this also translates in your academic writing @anna_5588 which is why you have been having trouble with it.
Note, not attempting to pile on. Only pointing out what appears to be a consistent theme/source of frustration for you
In this context, I used “pretty constant” and “for the most part” because I don’t literally eat the same thing every day. For example, I might sub out some of the eggs for leftover meat
I don’t believe I’ve shared any of my academic writing. The abstract I shared a couple months ago was my friend’s.
TBH, I’ve never actually done any real academic writing and my essays have always scored top marks
You haven’t., but you were expressing frustration a while ago at some written works you were turning in to (i believe) your academic “boss”. If i am off base, I apologize.
You must forgive me, but based off what I’ve observed, I believe that what occurs is a reduction of food in order to compensate for feelings of food guilt.
To me, this just proves that you don’t actually read any of the training programs and gives me ever more reason to think you apply selective reading.
And I wouldn’t be surprised if you’re so underfed and over-trained that you actually have no idea what your true maxes are, making this easier than you thought it would be- because doing 10x10 with your true 70% max with 2 minute rest sounds utterly insane and I don’t think anyone would ever seriously attempt that or be able to complete it.
