Worked out with my wife tonight,just to clarify, not in that way! I did read somewhere that post-workout sex is great, but as a married guy, I’m not sure I’ll ever experience that .
Anyway, still dealing with some pain in my right knee, so I did my deadlifts without issue but stuck to left-leg-only exercises for the rest of the session.
I went to the doctors today, I can’t do any leg work for a couple of weeks. As a result I’ve had a swap around a couple of the exercies as I was getting a slight knee pain while attempting them.
Calories this week have been good between 1400-1600 per day.
I use chatgpt to format the work out logs, I realise it changes the format each time but I’m keeping this fresh.
I’m feeling a bit disappointed the scales havnt moved in over a montheven though I’ve been sticking to a calorie intake of 1500-1600. I’ve got a doctor’s appointment tomorrow to check my thyroid levels. I also have low testosterone, and my doctor wants me to focus on losing weight before considering TRT to see if that helps raise my levels. That could be part of the reason why I’m struggling to drop weight, but for now, I’ll just keep pushing forward. I’ve definitely hit a wall and given up more times than I can count, but I’m not giving up this time around.
On a positive note, I’m definitely feeling stronger.
This is what it’s like working out from home with two kids under 5!
This is pretty rough, what’s the last few days of food been like, what are your macros coming in at? Do you record everything that goes in your mouth (thinking of hidden cals like milk/sugar in drinks). Is everything you eat homemade or is there processed stuff in there?
How’s your step count? An observation about your training as well, I know your working around injuries, but outside of your main movement, almost everything is machine based, not against machines, but if your main goal is fat loss, I’d be looking at bigger compound movements for the assistance work, and I would be probably super setting or giant setting it, trying to keep rest down as well.
Which country are you in? For some reason I assumed UK, if so are you trying through the NHS? (I’m UK based and on TRT, not through NHS though, I don’t like to slate Drs as they are significantly better trained and more knowledgeable than me, however NHS don’t do TRT at all well).
What are your numbers? If you’re just a bit on the low side lifestyle choices can definitely help, but if you are clinically hypogonadal, chances of lifestyle choices bringing you back into a healthy range aren’t great.
Having said that it’s not a panacea, so getting the lifestyle in order first is definitely the right way round, otherwise you’ll potentially end up with a crutch that supports an unhealthy lifestyle a little better.
Hey, I’m in Australia, and I track everything. Occasionally, I might have some extra veggies or something like that, but nothing too crazy.
I can’t recall all the exact numbers, but my total testosterone was 7.5 on one test and 7 on another. Free testosterone was 258 on one and around 250 on the second.
To qualify for assistance from Medicare, it needs to be below 6. I meet all the criteria for private treatment, so I’ll need to decide in the next week or two, as I do experience symptoms of low testosterone.
If you start tracking in here, I’d be more than happy to see if there’s anything we can maybe adjust to get things moving again. I’m glad you’re getting your thyroid checked, definitely report back on the results. Regardless of what you find out, I’m here to help if ya want me!
That specific screenshot is definitely low on protein and there are improvements that could be made, but not everybody is willing/able to work on just steak and eggs, and some people actually do want a balanced diet, despite your personal misgivings about it.
Particularly when someone is starting out, I think it’s best to try and find a sustainable diet for that individual, in the long term the best thing for health is losing the fat and keeping it off.
This week, I’ve increased the volume of my weight training. Up until recently, I didn’t have the energy to push myself further, but I’m starting to feel fitter and stronger.
To be fully transparent, I’ve recently lowered my calorie intake to around 1500. Here’s the breakdown: For the first month and a bit, I was on weight loss injections and eating under 1000 calories. I decided to move away from that because it wasn’t sustainable long-term, and I want to set a good example for my kids. I bumped up to about 2200 calories for a few weeks, but saw no progress. So, I lowered it to 2000, then 1800, and finally to 1700, but still no change on the scale. After dropping to 1500/1600, I’ve noticed a small change—I’ve lost 700 grams as of today, bringing me to 116.3 kg.
It’s a small change atfter close to two weeks at 1500/1600 cals, up until this morning, I had been stuck at the same weight for nearly two months, despite trying different calorie amounts. I’m getting a blood test tomorrow to check everything out, and honestly, I kind of hope there’s an underlying issue so I can address it
This is what I ate today
What was the timeline for these calorie drops?
What is your maintenance?
Are you doing any cardio?
Your current cals are about as low as you can go to support your normal body/brain function.
Never said it didn’t, and completely agree on pizza and tacos!
I’m not the OP and I’m happy with my progress. If your point is more that balanced doesn’t have a definition or substance that’s fair, but I think the vast majority of people globally wouldn’t say steak and eggs only is a balanced diet, it’s not so much a buzzword as a catchall, but maybe a poor term.
Over the past two weeks, I haven’t been doing cardio due to a knee injury, but I’m about 1-2 weeks away from being able to restart. Prior to the injury, I was walking up to 14-15 km per day, and on non-weight training days, I’d also do about 40 minutes of incline walking.
The timeline for the weight fluctuations has been a couple of weeks now. I’m not sure what my maintenance calories are—I’m neither gaining nor losing weight. I’m 179 cm tall, 41 years old, and when I calculate my TDEE, it comes out to over 2,000 calories. I understand that weight can fluctuate on the scale, but this morning, I weighed in at 116.8 kg.
At the start I was on 2500 for 3 weeks 2200 for 2 weeks then dropped to under a 1000 when I took the weight loss injections. I’ve had to look through my note pad I wasn’t using an onine tracker at that stage.
In hindsight maybe I should have given it logner but at my size looking at other peoples experience I would expect weight to come off faster.
