I’ll be enjoying everything! So far I’m right where I need to be for an IIFYM kind of day. I’m not sure how my macros will break down, so I guess it’s an IF IT FITS YOUR CALORIES day.
I’ve seen a trend with my last two drops. I was stuck just above 215 for a week and I had two or three bad meals in there. That was the Taco Bell week.
The past week I was stuck again but I had two horrible nights in a row. I finally cleaned myself up for a few days and bam - weight loss.
I’m hoping to avoid any more disaster meals after tonight. I need to suck it up if I want to keep dropping fat.
You’ll know you’ve succeeded when you’re in your 40’s and 50’s and your daughter’s boyfriends/husband are afraid of you. Of course, you being 6’4" and a cop, you have an automatic head start in that regard. My daughter’s husband is 4" taller than me and still terrified of me.
That’s the goal. If her boyfriends are scared of me and my son’s friends look up to me then I will have succeeded. I’m probably going to add some more tattoos for good measure.
This is my goal. I love eating and lack the discipline to (so far) get very lean, so I plan on getting the “power look.” Big upper back, traps, shoulders, etc. And have a few tattoos. Hoping that does the trick, haha.
I deviated from my dinner plan last night. I’d planned to get 10 fried boneless wings. Well, the manager order us the Buffalo chicken nachos. I ate about 1/3 of that bit I mostly picked the chicken out. I felt guilty about it so I only ended up ordering 5 grilled wings. I actually went to bed hungry but I guess it was worth it since I’m 213 this morning. I can tell I consumed some salt.
I tried to enter my calories and I was over for the day but there was a lot of guessing. I don’t even know why I tried.
I never thought you had IT band syndrome and I dont think your hip is unrehabable. Your knee is just inflamed. Your shoulder is healing slowly.
It’s amazing what the body can do with time and proper rehab.
Keep the reps high. Dont do movements that create sharp pain. Some dull pain is ok. Use best judgement on pain tolerance.
You likely need to stay away from fast, explosive type movements. They ignite inflammation.
I dont like the sghp for you.
I like DB RDLs to a shallow depth starting out and tempo + pause. Increase ROM over time. That’s a form of rehab right there.
High Handle TBDL maybe off blocks/bumpers. Again, increase ROM over time. More rehab.
Lots of band laterals for shoulder. Rehab!
Rear Lunges and RFESS for knees. High box squats. Lots of BW work here. No weight starting out. Very, very slow progression. More rehab!!
All of this is 10+ reps.
See where I’m going?
You need a lot of rehab reps.
Lots of side plank + abduction.
Roll your glutes. Get to where a lacrosse ball does not hurt on your glute med (this takes awhile!). Just this alone fixed a lot of my hip issues. Start with a foam roller, then graduate to a lacrosse ball.
He told me he had a doctorate and I later learned it was an honorary doctorate. What the heck!? Who goes around saying they have an education when they don’t?
They changed our policy and now allow us to have visible tattoos. I’ll be adding to my arm and will probably have a full sleeve someday. I can’t seem to shake the idea of an eagle on my forearm so there’s a good chance that’ll happen next. 'Merica!
Woke at 211.4 lbs. There’s no reason I will sabotage my progress this week - no special events planned. I stalled last week so hopefully I’ve earned a big week. I’m getting greedy but now I’d like to see 210. I know that in reality I should just hope to maintain 211-212, but my patience is gone!
Horizontal pulling workout tonight after work. I want to do snatch grip rack pulls. My hip hurts pretty much all day so I don’t know what to do. Part of me thinks I should pass on that lift and part of me is convinced that it doesn’t matter what I do anymore.
That has to be frustrating. I would say to just keep training around the injury, but I have a bad track record in that regard so you probably should take my advice with a grain of salt.
It’s maddening! Part of my pain is the tight muscles aching. The other part comes with movement and is more of a stabbing pain in the joint. It’s dumb.
