I totally get this, but I’d say be careful.
higher stress => increase water retention+ bad digestion => look worse
How’s the alcohol?
good idea
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Smart idea.
My, less extreme solution was to remove all non-productive apps from my apps screen (yes, I only have one screen for apps, and I’m very disciplined with it). That puts enough of a barrier to entry for me to stop looking at Facebook or whatever without a good reason.
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Well so what do I do, eat less or more ahahah? I was planing on staying at maintenance and probably indulge me a couple of times since my apetite has reduced
Well I drank these two days because of the shock. You know when I read this words, like a cold hand that grasp your heart, hands shaking etc I wanted to calm my nerves. I didn’t drink that much for fortunately I can’t hold my liquor anymore. I actually declined an alcoholic party yesterday night
You watched The Social Dilemma recently? Hahaha
I don’t know. I was just giving a reminder in case you end up thinking you look worse => worse mental state
For me, I get very upset when things are going badly and I think I look worse, but feel better when I realize that it’s because I haven’t slept well or ate 3x the RDA of sodium the night before
Good for you!
Long time ago but I guess good ideas stick. I have one myself but didn’t remember where I got the inspiration. Excellent guess! And I appreciate knowing where it came from
I don’t know, I felt terrible monday and tuesday, but on one of these day I thought I looked handsome, and another one I thought I looked bleh
Nothing crazy, running sucked today. Legs and lower back tired (no shit!) but the weather was so nice and gettin some fresh air felt good. And I still did the work!
As I was running I was pumping myself up. I watched an old Derek - MPMD video earlier and he was displaying his physique, his back specifically. And I compared myself to it. And he’s on gear and tried many shits. And I realized I look amazing, and I’m ripped.
I don’t know if it’s the dopamine from exercise and fresh air but I was listing all my qualities and encouraging myself.
I should be proud of what I’ve accomplished.
I have some more work to do, but my time will come! I’ll be successful. And someday a beautiful fit chick with a great personality will realize it. Or else it’s that they were stupid or not worth it!
I’m crazy faithful and caring, loving, supportive, a good listener. I try to uplift people even when they are better than me. I’m intelligent, educated and with a good sense of humour, open-minded and to new experiences. I’m active and a hard worker, and a freaking good cook with that! I’m giving as one can be.
I’m tall, with a top 1% body and a top 0.2% brain.
I’m not the first by far in one of the best 3 sport schools in the country for nothing!
My fellow pairs, classmates and coaches don’t look up to me for nothing!
I’m worth it, I’ve worked hard and I will continue to do so.
I’m not going to feel like right now all the time, but I must keep all of this in mind even when things get shitty.
Shit happens but I’m still here and still doing the work. Even when my knees were shattered. My wrist were sliced open. Even when my heart is broken, I do the work.
I’m gonna own it all!
I’m gonna own this diet and look like freaking Eric Helms the top 0.1% natty and do a great shoot!
Now I’m gonna eat a freaking (little) cheat because I deserve it.
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Here’s the thing: people don’t realize this about you until YOU realize it about you. I got way more attention from ALL genders (because this is a human thing: not a male/female thing) when I became my number 1 fan.
So keep up the positive self-talk. It’s good for you.
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Alright so first day of tracking done.
I’m at 2467 calories consumed. Not that much. I reckon my dinner was on the light side. And also that my cheat was less caloric than I thought (less than 1100): 4 slices of whole bread, 2 hard-boiled eggs, 200gr of tuna, 1 tomato, some lettuce and around 50 gr of mayonnaise.
MyFitnessPal puts me at 2610 calories for maintenance… And that’s before my run burning 550 calories. So right now I’m at a 700 calories deficit.
Well no wonder I cheat pretty much everyday and still stay lean… That’s interesting. I’m not that hungry, but as stated, my hunger has quite diminshed these last days.
Macros are 197 prots, 227 carbs and 80 fat. So that’s good! I consumed a bit less carbs than usual though (no lifting day).
Gonna keep this for a whole week and assess. Though I have a whole cheat day on saturday. We’ll see how my weight has changed. Then I’ll do another week of tracking, but this time without alcohol or cheat days and we’ll see what happens.
Looks like I wasn’t wrong with my thinking of “I don’t need to diet down for now, just no cheats”.
Very confident 20 min of easy fasted cardio per day + 1 run per week and not changing my diet (or even increasing slightly the cals) appart from the fact that I only do a cheat a week will be enough to start for a time the process of getting shredded in 5 weeks
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This, and this:
Do not belong in the same sentence.
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Mayonnaiiiiiiise! Like 300 cals of that alone!
You had a couple of tuna mayo sandwiches and 2 eggs, you don’t know the meaning of the word cheat!
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@aldebaran my cheats involve eating 10+oz of steak+ 5-6 broiled chicken wings and sometimes 1-2 grilled lamb chops or braised fish on top of that
I weigh less than 47kg
I have made some crazy cheats. But to me a cheat is eating forbidden food that has very little micronutrient value like mayo or ice cream or something that is 1000 cals +
Honestly the 10 oz would be enough for me, but I’d probably add fries hehe. Honestly I don’t like eating so much that my belly hurts
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Unless you have insane eating habits, one is a condiment and one is a food.
Eating mayo out of the tub is certainly a cheat. Putting mayo on a tuna sandwich is, at best, a deviation.
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Man, some may consider this an act of hostility.
I’ve known ultra marathoners that have undertaken it. “When the engine is hot enough, it’ll burn anything”
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My gut would consider it an act of war 
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Maybe an opportunity to practice auto-regulation next time.
Cool
I mean, occupy yourself however you want to but it appears as if your life is ping-ponging between disarray and I wouldn’t assume the two to have the same calorie needs nor for your body to respond to nutrients in the same way.
No, but numbing and escapism behaviours during the day forces your mind to deal with it when you are completely left bare to think about nothing else pushing that “work” which you presumably need to do into the nighttime and impacting not only your conscious awake hours in bed but also your sleep making it less restorative.
Hope your upswing that we saw in previous posts remains, I just wanted to reply seeing as I said I would.
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For sure, for sure. I did less work overall that session.
If only, friend, if only… I think about her pretty much all the time, even when I’m at the gym or playing video games with my friends. Nothing I can do about it but to let time do its work.
This night was plain awful. Couldn’t stop thinking about her. Also I drank diet coke, I figured the cafeine wouldn’t bother for I was already so tired but it probably didn’t help.
Fell asleep at around 3:30 AM, to wake up at 5. Fell back and woke intermittently like 8 times. it was horrible. Half the time dreaming about her, and thinking about her when I was awake. I thought of these Soviet tortures when they prevent you from sleeping.
I was very tired and weary today. Still did my sunshine walk but without much energy.
Attention, graphic line here:
I tried to fap today but nope, just a limp noodle. So yeah my body is not right at the moment.
I guess, but I think that between 2500-3000 cals and plenty of veggies and good food I won’t wither. I’m more concerned about the drop of T, and cortisol spike and overall health markers going down with the lack of sleep and emotional distress
Still went to the gym though, I felt a bit better there but it was only easy appart. Appart from the 1500 m row. At 700 m I felt my soul and energy vanished, it surprised me, but it went up afterwards
25/03
A. Zottman Curls 3 x 10 with 3 secs eccentrics and 10 kgs
B. KB curls 2 x 12 with 20 kgs
C. Poundstone curls (these are for you @Voxel and they sucked. I stopped first at 35, it was very tough… My arms looked good today though)
D. GGG KB rotation
E. Rotator cuff work
F. 1500m row
I have to keep in mind that a few days ago, I was the happiest I’ve ever been in my life. I have to keep in mind that my life is still the same. I just lost someone that didn’t care much about me. It’s more lonely, less exciting and fun but it’s the same life I wanted for so many years and that it will most likely only get better… I have work to do. I have financial stress, and the coach climate isn’t great, and I want to get out of my mom’s. These things will get better eventually but it’s hard right now.
Also I didn’t get on Instagram today. I think I won’t for a few days, and will resume posting stories and such when I start the new program. At the same time, another person contacted me through it for advice. I shall keep in mind that it’s useful for my work. But I’m taking a break, a social media deload lol. I want to forget this bad habit of always checking my phone to see if I had a dopamine rush from her messages
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