DJS, I don’t this could be contributed to something I ‘expected,’ but rather ‘overlooked.’ I keep my diet as good as I POSSIBLY can with the only limiting factor REALLY being my nutritional ignorance (but don’t take that as me not knowing a thing about nutrition as it’s always been one of my primary interests, even at a very young age). So, I overlooked the negatives about the dietary changes from the lifestyle. Fruits and vegetables cannot really be taken in in abundance. Micronutrients are really not nearly as accounted for as in my ‘normal’ eating. Additionally, I believe that the more variety in a diet, the better. This way of eating isn’t conducive to varied eating.
The whole thing with my wrist is giving me serious bias to the diet, and I’d really like take the easiest way out to make it stop hurting since it impedes my workout and to a lesser extent my guitar and piano playing. (I’m a music major).
Again, the idea of bulking seemed so good because I felt like the idea of getting bigger with no concern of sudden jumps in fat deposition was a miracle. However, once again not being aware of the whole thing, the amount of food with great portions but little variety is pretty disgusting to me. Let me say that I enjoy bacon to an extent, but things dripping in oil and the general texture of oil just grosses me out.
This may be just be a false observation, but I also think I’m SLIGHTLY fatter. That kind of disappoints me.
All I want from this diet right now is to get lean again in an efficient manner. If that happens in a relatively short amount of time, I won’t be completely disappointed with what seems like a waste of time to me. That’s pretty harsh of me to say, but I value even my mistakes (such as my post-competition binge), but this particular endeavor doesn’t really teach me anything other than “any radical change in dietary intake is not as ideal as careful manipulation of regular diet”.
By the way, to KingIndy I think, my usual 2-week grocery bill is $230-280 depending on how much I ‘ran out of’. I was expecting to go much higher with all this meat (I literally came home with 30ish lbs of beef, sausage, bacon, etc. My bill was $260, having saved $87. I feel like it’s very easy to make the meat purchases fit into a budget. Big cuts of meat like London Broil and shoulder roasts can be like $12, but if you butcher them into 150-300g portions, you can get like 6+ servings out of them. Fatty ground beef is also really cheap in relation to my normal 96% lean. Eggs are also much cheaper than egg whites! HA!