I am not wanting to be a jerk, I am wanting success for you, and it’s because of that I have to continue to emphasize how VERY ambitious your goal of losing 3lbs a week for a sustained 33 weeks is.
There’s no time to “get there”. You need to BE there. In fact, you need to “been there”.
You’re an older chap from what I recall. At least 30s, yeah? You’ve had SEVERAL years on this ball of gas. You’ve enjoyed many yummy treats. For this ONE year, don’t. Once that year is done, you can resume.
43 yes . Than you for reminding me. I need not to rest on my laurels. I am feeling healthier already. I can move better. I do not appear to have lost strength either. I can walk up the hill now without getting out of breath. I will get walking in tonight.
I am using walking and stationary cycling for conditioning.
I have no intention of regaining the weight.
I have two olympic dumbbell handle now.
So no excuses to miss workouts. CT’s uses a lot of overhead workout and lighter carries.
Agree with you on this. Been following for a few weeks and there’s much to much “I’ll do better tomorrow”
Would love to see OP succeed but something def needs to change.
I have had a few bad days here and there especially over the Christmas period. But I am on course to succeed.
The trap bar deadlift was a mistake in hindsight. I did not expect to get as sore as I did.
But I’m down 10 kg in a month without a drop performance, if anything I’m marginally stronger.
Honestly, this is great. I do look at your diet sometimes and think “this dude doesn’t get it.” No offense brother, but you are very lenient with allowing yourself to have bad days. You can read through the last year of my log to see what progress can look like, and with my career, I promise you I had every excuse in the book to have bad days. But I didn’t. If I had a cheat day, it never “happened”, it was a conscious preplanned choice. A little bit of fanaticism is definitely a good trait in that regard.
BUT, you are making progress. And I’m also of the opinion that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Keep tracking everything, keep trying to improve your habits, and the moment that progress begins to slow, understand that you better get your ass into gear. 10kgs in a month is impressive, I sincerely hope you keep it up.
Thank you for the kind words. I am a work in progress for sure. I am trying to do 1000 to 1100 calories to speed the weight loss up a bit. But it is hard going. 1500 cals seems a lot more doable.
I will take a look at your log thank you
Thursday breakfast
Ham sandwich carbs to fuel workout. I find I do a lot better with a small amount carbs.
Light curls and presses to warm up
Did DB clean and press plus push press
With 30 kg X 7
Failed to clean 36 a few times and 34 s. Got very close though , especially on 34 kg.
Used 32 kg x5
Used 30 kg X 8 just push press
I think I am slowly getting hang of swing technique. While not ideal it should get the dumbbells in place.
I think I could push press 42 s if I could clean them. I am hoping to make big gains in this exercise, even dropping a lot of weight.
50s at 100 kg Bw would be nice . Would probably be a 10 kg increase per arm with push press or ideally jerk. Not sure that’s feasible but I can but try.
dB bench press very fatigued here . 46 X 6 s.i struggled to get it in position too.
Deadhang 10 s
More curls and light presses to finish.
Bowl of vegetables and tin of mackerel
6 000 steps so far
1 banana 100 cal
3 egg protein omelette 300 cal
Berries 200 cal though
Morning weight on gf’s scales 18 stone 2
Possibly dropped a bit close to under 18 stone.
Tinned mackerel with rice 300 cal
Small amount kefir drink 100 cal
Meal deal bought for me
Chicken sata chicken on sticks 100 cal
Chicken plus bacon wrap 400 cal
Lean chicken straight from bird
Not sure of calories
Powertwister 90 gold 3 reps. Starting to recover.
Bought cottage cheese for 44 p .
Ate with one banana and berries
34 kg dB press X 8
dB rows 64kg X 8 lost a lot of strength here
Big plates though
Fatgripz 34 kg 2 holds.
Couldn’t get 54 kg in place for push press attemp fatigue
Few 14 kg curls
Chicken garlic and herbs
Gf’s birthday day chicken dinner
Piece of tiramisu
Small piece of cheesecake
Don’t buy cheap stuff because it’s cheap.
Ha trying to say it’s not a big sausage roll.
I’m slowly getting back on track though. I have some trouble with my foot. But I could use the bike.
I more found it interesting that earlier in the day you recognized it was a mistake and then you still commited to the mistake. I can understand a “moment of weakness”, but this is going from crime of passion to pre-meditated.
My wife had an awesome way to appreciate “value” as it relates to food. Her and I were both raised to never “waste food”, which meant ALWAYS eating ever scrap of food on our plates.
That’s a great approach when food is scarce: it’s a surefire recipe for obesity in times of abundance.
To reconcile the “wasted money” of throwing away food, my wife realized one day that she would gladly PAY someone to help her lose the excess weight she would gain from eating all that food…at which point, she may as well cut out the middleman and simply consider the cost of throwing away food the price of not putting on excess weight.
You’re seeing that here too. The sausage rolls may have been cheap: not buying them is even cheaper.
Breakfast 2 pieces of toast 200 cals
Garden workout
Workout
Dumbbell 14 kg curls and presses circuit
Two sets
Plus one more set of curls
dB presses right 34 kg X 11 t
Kettlebell 24kg presses right and left
10 l 11r
Rows at 44 kg r l X 10 no straps
64 X 10 l 64 X 10 right no rest
More kB pressées
Failed 44 kg with big plates
Rain stopped play.
More curls X 5 each arm
Lunch
3 egg protein omelette with big bowl of berries
400 calories
Nuts handful of almonds
3 Brazil nuts 300 cals or so
Trimmed chicken and small portion of vegetables
I bought an over the frame leverage style chin up bar for £8.99 at Aldi . Works great . I managed one horizontal just about lol. I have bands I can use while I lose weight and progress.
I will be doing Home workouts when I miss the gym .
Bw plus Dumbbell presses .
Did a few singles . Got worse quickly. Added bands worked well. Did a set of 3 with a strong band.
Tried out a few horizontal rows.
Should work great for conditioning workouts .
More chicken filets with paprika seasoning homemade.
