How the Hell Do I Diet and Not Lose my Mind?

Fixing your emotional attachment with food is the most sustainable.

Food =/= feelings

Or maybe stop "accidentally " pinning 1,000mg of test ? :woman_shrugging:

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Maybe he has an emotional attachment to Test :joy:

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is it high in calories? lol.

Kindaā€¦

Iā€™m just thinking there may be a link here.

Idk, im 260lbs and when i diet and go for super fast results i eat as little as 900kcals a day, being very active. I just like the challenge. I dont feel like im being challenged when i eat 2000+ on a cut.
I dont suggest anyone does this, im just saying - either you want results or you want to eat. You pick what you like more and do it.
No one says you need to lose weight. You kind of chose to do it, so there must be a reason. If that reason is not larger than you wanting to eat nom noms - eat em, who gives a fuck? There are tons of fat happy people.

I am very against people being unhappy. Thats the reason i cut in a brutal manner - it makes me feel good, it gives me a challenge and that makes me happy in a way. Its not the correct way but i dont like the correct way so fuck it. I dont have to answer to anyone. Some days i wanna see how little can i eat. Some times i wanna see if i can fast for 3 days straight. I just set a weird challenge and go for it, cuz i like the idea of me suffering through something.
If you dont have this passion, dont waste your life feeling bad a single day.
If you really would love to lose weight you would like not eating more than you like eating. Its a very simple thing - you already know what you like more. So just do what makes you happy.

I did this before my injuries and I saw fantastic results Id cut hard but eat super super high protein. Everyone from doctor friends of the family to everyone online told me it was ā€œbad for meā€ but couldnā€™t really say why. I feel like cutting super hard and then eating at maintenance was like sprinting getting there faster then taking it easy for a bit before sprinting again. Where as a 500 deficit just felt like spinning my wheels.

I might do a drastic cut for a bit and see how it goes. I feel like shit. Just did my daily 15 minutes on the stairmaster and almost had a heart attack from pushing it at the end. I donā€™t want to be a fat cunt anymore.

Be careful abt the cardio. Do it, but careful with heart rate. You can actually ā€œscareā€ the fatloss away. Like your body goes into a scared state that you will die and it holds on to fat more. So if you eat very low kcals id suggest you limit the heart attack type cardio to once a week and mostly stick to walking on an incline or slow swimming - heart rate around 125bpm for most time.

It looked like you might have missed it the first time

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I am different than most. While competing over three decades I never counted calories. I just adopted a diet strategy where I ate the same quantity of macros in the same proportions. For contest prep I would clean up my diet where it was at maintenance level. Then I would cut the excess needed fat and wait for ā€œfeedbackā€ (the scale, mirror, and strength).

I want the scale to go down, the mirror to look better, and the strength to stay the same (at least).

When the fat is removed and you are not making progress, start dropping some carbohydrates, test the ā€œfeedbackā€, REPEAT.

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