I think there is so much low hanging fruit out there for you to focus on, I wouldn’t worry about the effects of pot on your physique just yet. Unless, as Yogi said, it’s giving you the munchies or causing you to miss gym days.
Focus on gym and diet, if/when pot gets in the way you’ll know it.
[quote]rubberducky7o3 wrote:
I was wondering if anyone had read any scientific studies about the effects of marijuana on the athlete or body builder or general person trying to get/stay in shape.[/quote]
well, fucking up your lungs is hardly going to help you get in shape…
[quote]rubberducky7o3 wrote:
But I also don’t get blown when I smoke
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you’re missing out.
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
lol
^^^HAHA!
That’s funny. Where’d you find that?
Man, I remember trying to roll those ridiculous tulip things back when we were teenagers. 5 of us huddled under a jacket in the freezing Scottish winter weather. Good times.
[quote]Yogi wrote:
[quote]rubberducky7o3 wrote:
I was wondering if anyone had read any scientific studies about the effects of marijuana on the athlete or body builder or general person trying to get/stay in shape.[/quote]
well, fucking up your lungs is hardly going to help you get in shape…
[quote]rubberducky7o3 wrote:
But I also don’t get blown when I smoke
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you’re missing out.
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
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Lungs don’t seem to be taking too much of a hit but I could switch to edibles. And only when I’m with friends do I smoke a lot when I’m at home it’s just to relax. Also I get paranoid so I try to just smoke a little to feel good not to get stuck inside my own head.
[quote]rubberducky7o3 wrote:
Lungs don’t seem to be taking too much of a hit but I could switch to edibles. [/quote]
you can’t know that for sure; inhaling carcinogens is always going to be risky business.
But I should practice what I preach. I like to smoke dope every now and then and like a cigarette (or two, or twenty) when I’m drinking.
[quote]Yogi wrote:
^^^HAHA!
That’s funny. Where’d you find that?
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Find it?
Would it be weird if I told you I spent all afternoon creating that for you?
I’d like to keep updates of my progress to stay motivated so as of 3/8 I would say that I’m feeling pretty good about where I’m headed. Can definitely see and feel muscles in my shoulders, biceps, and triceps. Small muscles but they are there and they were not before. Calves are also toning up. Mid-section looks and feels the same although my girlfriend says she can see a little bit of definition around my solar plexus.
I’ve been working on my organizational skills since I am balancing three jobs with gym and starting my own production company that requires last minute meetings. So far I have been able to get to the gym at least 4 times a week. Each day I did:
Monday: 30 mins elliptical and stretch
Tuesday: Back/Biceps/10 mins HIIT (stair-master 30low/30high)
Wednesday: Abs/shoulders 1hr spin class
Thursday: Legs (I’m starting to add squats and deadlifts into leg day…before I just did 1 type of squats 3x10) meal prep
Friday: off
Saturday: off grocery shop
Sunday: off meal prep
Diet-wise I have been having turkey sandwiches with honey mustard on them for lunch. Plus veggies w/ hummus and a yogurt. Dinner I had burgers (no bun) w/ sweet potatoes, asparagus, avocado (when I had some), and a veggie-vinagraitte thing (broc, onions, peppers w/ EVOO and balsamic vinegar) on mon/tues/weds. I had chicken w/ veggies, EVOO, and balsamic along with brown rice for dinner on thurs/fri/sat. Sunday I go to my moms for dinner and she had cobb salads with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. I love balsamic vinegar. And then she plumped me full of brownies with ice cream and caramel so that was probably not okay. Especially since I considered my saturday breakfast my cheat meal. Went out for breakfast and had the (very fatty) steak w/ three eggs, potatoes, and english muffin (smothered in butter…not my choice). Also, I found three baggies of Goldfish so I ate those throughout the week.
Healthy snacks: jerky, coconut chips, chips and salsa, quest bars, dove dark chocolate, peanut butter
Breakfast: either oatmeal w/ peanut butter or life cereal w/ soy milk
Drank on saturday night.
Waiting for my flavor god seasonings to meal prep with. This week I am having green curry chicken loaded with veggies on brown rice for dinner and then spaghetti and meatballs as well. Turkey sandwiches for lunch unless I have curry chicken left.
Thinking about adding supplements in soon. Right now I take Juice Plus and fish oil pills. Sometimes I drink a protein shake afar my work out. Normally just go for the quest bar.
Need to drink more water I think and spend more time foam rolling.
[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
[quote]Yogi wrote:
^^^HAHA!
That’s funny. Where’d you find that?
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Find it?
Would it be weird if I told you I spent all afternoon creating that for you?
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It would only make me love you more
[quote]rubberducky7o3 wrote:
I’d like to keep updates of my progress to stay motivated so as of 3/8 I would say that I’m feeling pretty good about where I’m headed. Can definitely see and feel muscles in my shoulders, biceps, and triceps. Small muscles but they are there and they were not before. Calves are also toning up. Mid-section looks and feels the same although my girlfriend says she can see a little bit of definition around my solar plexus.
I’ve been working on my organizational skills since I am balancing three jobs with gym and starting my own production company that requires last minute meetings. So far I have been able to get to the gym at least 4 times a week. Each day I did:
Monday: 30 mins elliptical and stretch
Tuesday: Back/Biceps/10 mins HIIT (stair-master 30low/30high)
Wednesday: Abs/shoulders 1hr spin class
Thursday: Legs (I’m starting to add squats and deadlifts into leg day…before I just did 1 type of squats 3x10) meal prep
Friday: off
Saturday: off grocery shop
Sunday: off meal prep
Diet-wise I have been having turkey sandwiches with honey mustard on them for lunch. Plus veggies w/ hummus and a yogurt. Dinner I had burgers (no bun) w/ sweet potatoes, asparagus, avocado (when I had some), and a veggie-vinagraitte thing (broc, onions, peppers w/ EVOO and balsamic vinegar) on mon/tues/weds. I had chicken w/ veggies, EVOO, and balsamic along with brown rice for dinner on thurs/fri/sat. Sunday I go to my moms for dinner and she had cobb salads with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. I love balsamic vinegar. And then she plumped me full of brownies with ice cream and caramel so that was probably not okay. Especially since I considered my saturday breakfast my cheat meal. Went out for breakfast and had the (very fatty) steak w/ three eggs, potatoes, and english muffin (smothered in butter…not my choice). Also, I found three baggies of Goldfish so I ate those throughout the week.
Healthy snacks: jerky, coconut chips, chips and salsa, quest bars, dove dark chocolate, peanut butter
Breakfast: either oatmeal w/ peanut butter or life cereal w/ soy milk
Drank on saturday night.
Waiting for my flavor god seasonings to meal prep with. This week I am having green curry chicken loaded with veggies on brown rice for dinner and then spaghetti and meatballs as well. Turkey sandwiches for lunch unless I have curry chicken left.
Thinking about adding supplements in soon. Right now I take Juice Plus and fish oil pills. Sometimes I drink a protein shake afar my work out. Normally just go for the quest bar.
Need to drink more water I think and spend more time foam rolling.
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A lot of your food options are questionable for losing weight and your routine contains too much cardio and not enough (well-structured) resistance training. That being said, if you keep track of your bodyweight and measurements and those are improving, keep going.
[quote]nighthawkz wrote:
A lot of your food options are questionable for losing weight…
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I was going to say that her food options were mostly OK. Then I re-read a bit more closely and…yeah.
[quote]rubberducky7o3 wrote:
Breakfast: either oatmeal w/ peanut butter or life cereal w/ soy milk
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Life cereal? Come on.
[quote]rubberducky7o3 wrote:
…turkey sandwiches with honey mustard on them for lunch. Plus veggies w/ hummus and a yogurt. [/quote]
Gave my opinion on this before, it’s not the best option but not a deal-breaker, either.
[quote]rubberducky7o3 wrote:
Dinner I had burgers (no bun) w/ sweet potatoes, asparagus, avocado (when I had some), and a veggie-vinagraitte thing (broc, onions, peppers w/ EVOO and balsamic vinegar) on mon/tues/weds. I had chicken w/ veggies, EVOO, and balsamic along with brown rice for dinner on thurs/fri/sat. [/quote]
This is all pretty good stuff.
[quote]rubberducky7o3 wrote:
Sunday I go to my moms for dinner and she had cobb salads with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. I love balsamic vinegar. [/quote]
This is, too, but…
[quote]rubberducky7o3 wrote:
And then she plumped me full of brownies with ice cream and caramel so that was probably not okay. Especially since I considered my saturday breakfast my cheat meal. [/quote]
[quote]rubberducky7o3 wrote:
Went out for breakfast and had the (very fatty) steak w/ three eggs, potatoes, and english muffin (smothered in butter…not my choice).
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[quote]rubberducky7o3 wrote:
Also, I found three baggies of Goldfish so I ate those throughout the week.
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“Smothered in butter” is not necessarily a bad thing. The fact that you’re eating an English muffin out for breakfast, AND drinking on Saturday night, AND having brownies and ice cream, AND that you consider “chips and salsa” a healthy snack…those are bad things.
You’re the classic example of someone that shoots for 80/20 (80 percent really good stuff, 20 percent indulgence) and ends up eating about half good stuff and half junk food. Any one of those things, individually, is OK. But seriously, the only meal you eat that’s really “spot on” for someone trying to lose fat is your dinner. Everything else needs work. And you have a bunch of stupid junky little snacks (Goldfish???) in there that are doing you no favors.
Yeah, yeah, lighten up and live a little and all that. Here’s the deal. You can get away with maybe ONE of those indulgences a week. But your life is still hectic, your training is still a work in progress, and you still have fat to lose. One single treat or indulgence doesn’t undo a good week, but when those treats, indulgences, and junk foods start to permeate into all the little cracks (look at your week again), you’re probably going to have to take this a little more seriously.
[quote]ActivitiesGuy wrote:
Here’s the deal. You can get away with maybe ONE of those indulgences a week. But your life is still hectic, your training is still a work in progress, and you still have fat to lose. One single treat or indulgence doesn’t undo a good week, but when those treats, indulgences, and junk foods start to permeate into all the little cracks (look at your week again), you’re probably going to have to take this a little more seriously.[/quote]
Listen this guy, he knows what he’s talking about.
On the whole, your week’s eating wasn’t awful, but it was pretty poor.
One cheat meal a week, girl! That’s all you get! Save it for a social occasion (a meal out with your boyfriend, pizza with your homegirls, etc).
And no more snacking on food you’d serve at an 8 year old’s birthday party.
[quote]Yogi wrote:
One cheat meal a week, girl! That’s all you get! Save it for a social occasion (a meal out with your boyfriend, pizza with your homegirls, etc).
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Exactly.
I’m not telling you to skip the brownies and caramel at mum’s house. I’m telling you that if you’re heading to mum’s house and planning on some brownies with caramel that week, then stop eating Goldfish, stop eating Life cereal, don’t blow your cheat meal on Saturday morning, and don’t go out drinking Saturday night.
Seriously, your dinner is good. Your lunch is passable. Presently, it’s the snacks and extra desserts and drinking that will be your undoing unless you button them down a little bit. ONE of those things a week. You want to go drinking with the girlfriends on Saturday night, that means no brownies on Sunday - for that week, not necessarily “never again.” Make sense?
So I posted a response to these comments and it seems to have disappeared into cyber space. Maybe it will pop back up later I don’t know. But yes I will work on eliminating crap from my diet. It takes time I have to learn new recipes and get rid of all the old crap food. Like the goldfish. I forgot I bought them a while ago and didn’t want to waste perfectly good food. Same goes with the cereal.
Any quick and healthy snack options for a salt-lover?
I will work on more resistance training but could you be more specific?
Also, definitely was not planning on the brownies and ice cream with caramel. My mom kind of just gave me some and doesn’t take no for an answer. But I’ll be more firm next time. It just all happened so fast.
We have faith in you ducky ! At the age of 24 you should be showing though some sembelence of Disciple.
Sure, it is not easy. Especially when you consider that carbs have the same effect on the brain as meth.
NO ! That will not be your excuse for getting out of this, sorry.
If you eat 6 small meals a day x 7 days a week, then out of 42 if you blow ONE that is a 3% deduction, 3 and your at “B” status.
Now, as you become more familiar with us, and we you, you will begin to understand that two cheat meals a week will work wonders.
I lift lite Sat morn (bench) lite sun morn(dead) and heavy sun nite (squat). Then i have my first cheat meal.
I lift heavy wed eve (bench) and heavy thr nite (Dead) after which is my second cheat meal. It took TIME for me to get
it all dialed in. But, I have made very steady gains over the last four years and I am 48 ~ !
Take your time but be prudent and a little more disciplined !
Remember, it is easier to stay Strong(her) than it was to get there in the first place !!
[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
lol[/quote]
Omg.
HAHAHAHA
[quote]rubberducky7o3 wrote:
Also, definitely was not planning on the brownies and ice cream with caramel. My mom kind of just gave me some and doesn’t take no for an answer. But I’ll be more firm next time. It just all happened so fast.
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Hey, this is understandable. Life happens. I do want to compliment you for posting here so openly and being willing to accept constructive criticism. This is how progress will be made.
The good news, by posting all of that stuff from last week, is that (even if it took some tough love from us, sorry) is that you can see how small steps along the way will allow those incremental improvements. You live and learn. By documenting all of this and listening, you realize that “Gee, sometimes I’ll have an unplanned dinner at Mom’s house and I don’t want to turn down her brownies. So if I want to allow that every so often, that means I should cut out one of my planned cheats, or cut back on some snacks, etc.”
As for the snacks for a salt lover…you already have mentioned a few with nuts and beef jerky. Those are probably your best bets. If you’re on a budget these might be tough but look into Epic bars (Google them, link won’t be allowed) or some of the bars from this site, perhaps. Otherwise…nuts, jerky. Chips are crap, pretzels are crap, and Goldfish are crap.
But I lovvvvvvvvvvvvve chips! I actually didn’t realize how much chip eating I did until visiting family in Kentucky, going through bags and bags. Also, Kentucky is not the place to be when on a diet. It’s fried everything. And their salad options: potato salad, slaw salad, macaroni salad, fruit salad (dressed in a whip cream sauce), cobbler salad, corn salad (cream sauce)…I can’t even think of all the salads it was quite impressive.
But I will cut out the chips if it means results.
And yes I know my week was poor. I was not expecting to be praised for eating goldfish and brownies. It was however, an improvement from last week’s eating which I did not post. Perhaps then you guys would have congratulated me. But that’s not what I’m here for. I’m not here for you guys to tell me I’m going a great job. I’m here for you guys to tell me what is and is not working because you know more than I do. So I thank everyone for the “tough love.” Don’t worry, I grew up with mean older brothers. I can handle just about anything.
Since I am getting more serious about this, should I spend the time calculating how much protein, fat, and carbs I need for my body? And calories? Or even heart rate during cardio? I had a Chad Waterbury book that explained how to do all that way back when but I’ve moved 10 times since then, not sure if I’ll be able to find it.
[quote]rubberducky7o3 wrote:
And yes I know my week was poor. I was not expecting to be praised for eating goldfish and brownies. It was however, an improvement from last week’s eating which I did not post. Perhaps then you guys would have congratulated me. But that’s not what I’m here for. I’m not here for you guys to tell me I’m going a great job. I’m here for you guys to tell me what is and is not working because you know more than I do.
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Exactly! Posting what you eat for an entire week opens yourself to that criticism, but also lets you see where you can improve. The dinners you’ve been preparing are a great start and the lunch isn’t bad. Keep improving.
[quote]rubberducky7o3 wrote:
And yes I know my week was poor. I was not expecting to be praised for eating goldfish and brownies. It was however, an improvement from last week’s eating which I did not post. Perhaps then you guys would have congratulated me. But that’s not what I’m here for. I’m not here for you guys to tell me I’m going a great job. I’m here for you guys to tell me what is and is not working because you know more than I do. So I thank everyone for the “tough love.” Don’t worry, I grew up with mean older brothers. I can handle just about anything.
Since I am getting more serious about this, should I spend the time calculating how much protein, fat, and carbs I need for my body? And calories? Or even heart rate during cardio? I had a Chad Waterbury book that explained how to do all that way back when but I’ve moved 10 times since then, not sure if I’ll be able to find it. [/quote]
Your willingness to take criticism is fantastic. No sarcasm intended; there a few newbs posting atm who could learn from you.
And yes, calculating your calories and macros wouldn’t be a bad idea. Not a huge fan of the heart rate bit but it wouldn’t hurt.