How do you adjust your eating on that day?
So that’s, what? 180 calories * 15 = 2700 calories from beer alone? To be honest, when I came across this thread, and read this,
I was in a bit of a mood and wanted to jab at you with a “if you don’t want to change your habits, then don’t expect different results”. But, I don’t think you have to cut out drinking entirely but maybe consider reducing it? That’s a lot of liquid calories.
Each glass of wine is ~120 calories I guess.
Assuming a bottle is on average 750ml then you are looking at > 900 calories there.
And it’s not just calories, it has an impact on your metabolism or so I’ve read. This might not be my place, as I’m not a British native and understand that the extent of of alcohol consumption is highly cultural but… to me that’s a worrying amount. I’d be concerned about you if I was a real-life friend of yours.
I don’t follow. What do you mean?
I moved the carbs closer to the training, i.e. the potatoes, as they’re insulinogenic and will be more anabolic in comparison to the 5 eggs and slice of toast.
As @JamesBrawn007 s post history would inform you, eating very often is not ideal when the desire is to lose some fat. Eating, even just a pure protein source, will inhibit your body from using your own body fat as fuel. I don’t have any sources to cite at the moment.
I will point out that there are people on this board even that have lost fat while eating frequently. @jackolee comes to mind. However, he was fairly active as a consequence of his job so he’d actually use those nutrients and bring insulin down fairly quickly by simply being active allowing the body to resume using bodyfat for fuel. As an aside, I’ve come to learn that there is a lot of variation in how the human body metabolises caffeine, with subjects having half-times ranging from 3-7 hours. I wouldn’t be surprised if a similar variation exists in regards to how often it’s beneficial for an individual to eat.
Try this?
I don’t know what your circumstances are so I always feel bad suggesting things as they may or may not be reconcilable with your life situation and financial situation but ideas,
- Go for walks, walking is good. Do them before work. Do them during lunch. Do them after work with the missus.
- Watching telly in the evening? Continue doing that, but also do some yoga meanwhile. Or band pull-aparts, or something. Anything.
- Get a standing desk.
- Get a self-powered treadmill to go along with the desk.
- Do Limber 11 at home in the morning if you can’t leave the house to walk.
On all training days? This is not the intent. The program specifies that the last set is taken to failure. Maybe you mean on leg days? @The_Mighty_Stu wrote about his non-spinal loading days here,