I’ll have to look into it, couldn’t find anything when I searched for the first time
For sure, I’ll have to find the cause for this
I went in raw and only used BCAA and creatine
Probably closer to 30%
After half a year I was down to around 8% at around 80kgs. You know, disregard rules and so on
Edit. Not the whole half a year was done with GSD, but it formed a good chunk of that time
kela.fi, you might be eligible for a housing subsidy. Also, check around for scholarships. If you can’t get one, maybe your girlfriend can (assuming you pool your financial resources).
Have you been able to identify a pattern in them at all? Personally, I can’t have a standalone fruit (regardless of its GI), wheat sucks dick and having a lot of carbs in a single meal will get me. The exception is intra- and post-workout. I can have a piece of fruit and get through it fine if I hop on the bike right after to go to the gym. I can have bread and pasta after a workout but otherwise no. I can have a lot of carbs in my Intra-workout shake but I cannot at other times.
Maybe don’t go from one extreme to another, try to eat normally and see how your body responds. That, if anything, might be extreme just by sheer comparison to what you do otherwise.
How are other health markers? Sleeping okay? Recovery from workouts and small cuts? Change in mental state? Immune system?
Can’t get it as I’m not living at my own place atm. I’ll apply for it in the fall when I move to the city.
Gotta look around. My girl’s not in school right now, hopefully she gets into one soon.
Not really, no. It’s just when I eat carbs I get these issues apart from times when I consume, say over half a kilo in one sitting. Also whey by itself seems to cause this so I cut that out as well.
Moderation is the thing I’ve always struggled with. I’ll probably continue like this until I can get a blood test and ask them how they want me to eat before the test (to get accurate readings) and going forward from there
I feel that I sleep a bit better now compared to when I ate carbs. I’ve had, and still, to some extent have trouble falling asleep.
Small cuts heal very fast. I recover really well, but keep in mind that my workout volume is not mind-blowing. (Averaging at maybe 15 sets per session now).
Mentally I’m all good, no problems there.
I don’t even remember the last time I was sick so immune system seems to be holding up as well.
There are scholarships that aren’t contingent on being a student but rather doing things.
When you eat carbs and nothing but carbs?
Weird! I know whey contains carbs but, did you replace your whey intake with BCAAs? Gram for gram? I guess not, since leucine at those levels would be insulinogenic all the same.
Fair
Good!
That’s cool, I’d never heard of stuff like that. They’re pushing student loans pretty hard, and while kela does pay a part of it if you graduate in time I still don’t like the idea of taking a loan.
A meal like that always contains some fat and protein as well, haven’t tried a pure carb source for such quantities.
Whey causes a similar effect as carbs do when it comes to insulin, quite a lot of people get low blood sugar if they just take in whey. I don’t remember if it actually spiked blood sugar, that’s why I phrased it like that. Could very well be.
Taking a look at GSD - post workout whey is not a part of it so I though I’ll just cut it out. I consume 30g of aminos, creatine and some glutamine during my workout so I’m pretty sure I won’t lose all my gains by doing this.
If the rate is alright then whatever. Pretty much everyone in Sweden gets through higher education on a student loan.
From what I’ve understood the loan is intrest-free or kela pays your interest (up to a certain point). As stated before they also pay a part of your loan back so basically you get some free money if you graduate in time.
Dude, sounds gold. Get on that.
I’ll check it out when I get home, I really need to get my stuff in order
General life update;
Thought I may write a little something now that I’m around and have time to kill.
School is going well - I’m already a bit ahead of the rest of the class. Got this flashcard app called “Anki” on my phone and wrote everything I need to know in there. Works like a dream.
Today was the first day of the PT cert. Went to school in the morning and to the cert session straight from there. Definitely a long day - left from home at 6AM and I’ll be back at midnight. We just went over some basic anatomy and physiology at the cert session today, which made me feel real smart. One fun thing is that we’ll get over a thousand pages worth of course materials for the certification, at least I won’t run out of stuff to read.
Now that I’m at school, doing the cert and working, all in different cities time management will become really important. Oh boy.
Today marks five years together for my girlfriend and I. Quite neat.
Happy Valentine’s day everybody!
Happy valentines man! Also Im really glad to hear things are going well
Went into a work health checkup today, managed to book a fasting blood glucose test for next Monday. Results should be in next Wednesday. There’s also a possibility to get a long term blood glucose test.
@Voxel soon we’ll be a bit wiser.
General life update:
I’ve been away from the forums for a bit, got a lot on my plate at the moment.
Got my blood test results today. In addition to fasted blood glucose they tested long terms blood glucose, hemoglobin and whatnot, overall ~20 values, all of which were good. That was quite puzzling both to me and to the doc. She told me that she suspects it could be, wait for it, reactive hypoglycemia, which I mentioned some time ago here. But that’s not a diagnosis, it’s just her guess.
Anyway, she told me that if I felt like it, a sugar stress test may be worth a while. So I’ll probably look into that next. But good news is that I do not have diabetes.
I’m going to continue with the get shredded guidelines as I feel quite good on it, may as well make it my longer diet for this year.
Training is going pretty well, I’ve never really been affected that much by outside stress when it comes to output in the gym, so I haven’t had a drop in performance due to school or no carbs and whatnot.
hows it going man?
Really good, thanks for asking
I’ve been away from the forums because I’m busy as hell for the time being, school, cert and work add up to 90-100 hours of work per week and as I’m training and dieting on top of that I don’t really have too much time to think about other stuff.
Training-wise, it’s going pretty well. Despite the diet my strength has maintained or even increased slightly on some lifts.
Diet-wise, I’m also doing well. I’m currently on week 5(or 6?) of dieting while adhering to the Get shredded diet principles. (Aka. Real low calories with no carbs). Haven’t had a refeed yet, but I’ll do a half day one next Monday (probably around 6-7K calories). I’ve gotten considerably leaner in the past few weeks.
School is great too, I’m loving it. Cert - well, let’s say I enjoy the mental wrestle I’m having with a couple of the teachers. They spew some tier one bullshit and I just got to prove them wrong.
How are you doing?
Thats great man!
Pretty good
Have you done this yet?
I haven’t, it was borderline impossible to fit into my schedule and after a while I forgot
However, I did talk to a rather high level nutritionist about this, and he thought my problem could be too good insulin sensitivity, so I kinda decided to roll with it.
I’m still going with the cut, apart from two mandarins after training I’m going with the GSD-type of diet. Although I’m eating 1900-2000 calories per day my strength has maintained or improved on my big lifts. At the moment I’m following a 4 day (+1 “hypertrophy day”) powerlifting program. It’s just three big movements on each of the four days.