Ah ok. Is your typical leg day only squats or do you do accessories too? I know sometimes people don’t log their accessory work just main lifts.
Just squats.
Maybe it’s high time to add sometime else. I’m on the road or traveling to different gyms fairly frequently and a lot of the crappy gyms I end up in don’t have a lot to offer beyond a squat rack. My legs are actually probably my strongest point aesthetically and have some decent size, compared to the rest of me. So I do feel the squats work. Maybe will add some hamstring curls
Right on dude. I look forward to following along to see your progress.
Came to update this thread because I want to eat a huge bacon and hash brown breakfast so fucking bad right now. But I refuse, 224 on the scale this morning and looking better everyday
There is something about this whole dieting thing that feels so strange and foreign.
This sounds to me like you are “salt seeking” right now. As you’ve dropped your calories and carbs, have you upped salt intake?
Very interesting connection that I haven’t considered but you are correct. Been eating hot sauce and salty crackers like a maniac
I’d try to be intentional to address this, and, in turn, avoid needless snacking. I’d more aggressively salt my food, or use an electrolyte supplement. Or both.
Dr. Paul Saladino proposes an idea that we have “nutrient hunger”: our body will be hungry until it gets all the nutrients it needs. Because so much “food” out there is nutrient void, we have to eat a LOT of it to get those nutrients, which is why obesity happens. But if we are intentional with our nutrition, we can meet that hunger demand without excessive calories.
I am down 17 lbs from around 2 months ago.
Way less eating, waaaay less drinking. Face looks way better.
But, my strength is down. Quite a lot. Probably any weight I was getting for 12 reps 2 months ago I’m getting for 8.
Is this to be expected?
10 percent body fat sounds very beautiful but wondering if the cost to size and strength is too high. Any guesses what we are sitting at now?
Is it down? Think about it: you’re 17lbs lighter. You’re a lighter lifter than you were before: that means you are evaluated by a different standard. It’s why weight classes exist in strength sports.
Perhaps your strength is simply moving proportionally with your bodyweight.
All that said, this is why I CHANGE my training during periods of calorie restriction. This is a time to pick new lifts and progress on them, because you’ll be able to see growth simply from neurological adaptations and the novelty of the lift to start with, and ride that out for a while. And then you’ll shore up weak points for those other lifts that will get you stronger when you return to them.
Man, as a guy who tends to obsess, this cutting thing is frustrating.
I have really narrow hips and lower midsection, and my stomach fat sitsquite low, so I end up with a small belly beneath my belly button that has always pissed me off but when I’m carrying abit of extra weight it sort of fills around the sides and isn’t noticeable.
It’s hard to describe but it’s annoying as hell, and makes the old self check in the mirror depressing. But I’ve been sticking to cut. Fingers crossed that stomach fat fucks off at a certain point
Nearly one year later, look who’s back, and STILL CUTTING.
To make a long story short, over the last last year I was in here, I never quit lifting, never started drinking again, and never overate.
Last summer I just was not as leaned as I wanted to be. This summer, I will be sub 10 percent body fat god damn it and I don’t care if it kills me. They can bury me shredded.
Doing an upper/lower split everyday, Intermittent fasting, (minus 3 scoops of protein throughout the day) and mostly eat meat at dinner time. Shooting for 2000 cals a day but I’m not really counting closely, just ball park.
196 LBs as of today. Still 6”3. 25 Y/O. (40 pounds down from my first post last year, that’s insane right?)
I plan to update this log again every so often to track my progress.
185 LBs by June 1st.
Most recent Pics, just to flex. Looking at my first post in this thread now, I’m really damn proud.
Oh and by the way, down to a 34” waist from damn near 38, all my XL shirts that used to be “fitted” I have reordered as Ls,
Bench max aprox 245, squat aprox 300, not currently deadlifting
Upper body today, hoped to hit 185x12 on bench and was disappointed.
Got 10. Hoping to improve this drastically in the next 6 weeks, as per an arbitrary goal I set a while back. Not looking great at this point lol.
Bent over rows, 135 3x12
OHP 75 3x10
Here’s to hoping I can still squeeze out some strength gains
Sick as a sob if a bitch last 2 days but still working out. Fuck it.
Just taking it a little easier.
Veins coming out if the arms and hips like crazy. Not sure what I’ll look like if I actually hit 185 lbs but rest assured I won’t be fat. Still around 194 in the morning but pretty sure I’m carrying at least a few lbs of extra water because I’m hydrating like mad to beat the cold. Will hop on next week. Best geuss is I’m still losing weight because I can see it in the mirror
Yesterday was the first day not sick as hell.
Squats 225 5x5. Probably need to add some intensity to these leg days, but the strength is just lower then it used to be on 2000 cals a day. I also basically only have a squat rack when I’m on the road so that narrows things down for options.
The good news, somehow hit a bench PR this morning, 250 x1 and it wasn’t awful, but close to a full effort. I have never hit that before. Much less after a relatively hard couple sets first. Crazy because that affirms that I’m definitely still making strength gains even though the veins or trying to break out of my hips because I’m basically starving to death. Lol. Maybe 275 by mid summer. Still focused on getting that BW bench to 15x reps
If anyone is out there,
I’m curious for some input on continuing to “cut”.
To make a long story short, and recap this entire thread. About 13 months ago, I was eating estimated between 3200-4000 cals every single day. And this isn’t an exaggeration. I was drinking heavily as well. Which wasn’t helping.
I started by just intermittent fasting everyday. I did this for quite a while with out actually counting cals. But it’s hard to eat more then say, 2500 a day when you are only eating one meal.
Overtime I’ve started to actually log an aprox amount and shot for 2000. My weight loss is definitely slowing, but I’ve maintained a surprising amount of strength through all of this. (See the new 1rm bench I did today).
It’s to the point that after I eat my once daily meal at 6 pm, I feel like a fat POS for over eating as I obsess more and more. I’m wanting to drop to 1500 cals strictly, for say 4 weeks. That would basically be 4 scoops of protein throughout the day and one 1100 call meal for dinner.
Do you all think I will die?
I doubt you will die, but you may not enjoy it either.
Have you considered you could be replacing fat with muscle? Recomping?
Are planning on competing? If not why so obsessed with a number?
Holy cow, dude, I would address THIS before I started worrying about body comp. That’s alarming.
I feel like you’re displaying indicators of overdieting there. It may be time to enter a maintenance phase, get your hormones back in a good state, rebuild your metabolism, and come back strong.
Stumbled on this thread today, never saw the original.
Congratulations. you are a unicorn. You came in, asked for advice, didn’t argue, implemented the advice given, and accomplished your goals.
Phenomenal!
As far as continuing to cut, figure out your goals and share them here. You, obvs, are a bit obsessive so when the experts here have a clearer picture of your goals they can give you some advice.
I actually take this to heart and appreciate the concern. I’m a being a little facetious when I say a fat POS. I am a little ambitious at times, but helps me to feel productive, or so that’s what I tell myself. Haha. On a body positivity note, I have never in my life felt like this, not just energy levels, but I get dates all of the sudden. Unsolicited. Which I am telling you has never happened. I’m pretty sure at least 10 percent of the weight I lost was straight off of my face. I’m damn near a handsome fellow now. And yeah, that’s probably addicting and the feeling I’m chasing at this point