I know, right?! I’m just lucky that I eat lunch very early and could get out of that state.
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Same
I’m a carb junkie. I’m cutting at 3000 calories a day and 300g carbs. I feel sorry for you guys.
I tried to stay at our below 100g carbs one day. I about died. I found that all of my food sources are carbs so I basically just didn’t eat.
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Friday, 31st of August 2018
Weight: 75.6kg (+0.7kg). Perfectly expected given my increased carb intake yesterday.
Sleep: six, six and a half, hours (more like 6)
Mirror: My upper abdominals look fairly sunk in and my lower waist is somewhat distended giving me a not very good look. Hopefully just a transitional phase. Stomach vacuums this morning has me convinced that yes, I’m carrying a bit of excess skin at the bottom of my stomach but not a lot. If I hypertrophy my midsection a bit I could maybe fill that skin out.
Workout (1hr 9m)
4 circuits
Top-half bench press 6 reps @ 90kg [0]
Bench Press 6, 6, 3, 5 @ 65 [1]
Speed bench press 6@45kg
Medicine ball chest throw 7kg 10 reps
Plyo pushup 8 reps
4 circuits
Top-half deadlift 6 reps at 170kg [2]
Deadlift 6 reps at 110kg
Power clean from hang, 4 reps at 50kg
Jump good morning kettlebell 10 reps at 32
Broad jump series 10 reps
[0]: Moved in my grip slightly on all bench-pressing, so my shoulder hurts less.
[1]: Missed reps, but it didn’t phase me
[2]: Finally found the right pin setting for these (one lower than before). As a result of the increased ROM I won’t increase the weight tremendously on this exercise next week
Overall, a good workout. I was in a bit of a shitty mood this morning, had some HOT ROX to compensate for the comparative lack of sleep and managed to use that caffeine boost and my general frustration/anger level that I carried with me this morning to absolutely kill my first circuit which felt great.
Why did it feel so good? Well, with my general lack of fire throughout the week, and feeling as if I’m struggling to recover from these workouts, I’ve pondered if I needed to change my training up somehow and I would have just hated to be one of those new guys on the board that changes their program. Even more so since I’m on a diet and I would’ve just felt weak-willed.
Given my lack of experience, I have a hard time convincing myself that any changes to a plan on my part would be anything other than a lack of grit and will-power as opposed to a smart and educated decision.
Hence, having a good workout after a week of shit workouts has me feeling pretty damn good.
Edit: added deadlifts
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I’ve started daydreaming about where I’ll be putting calories in as I come off my diet. Seems… sane. And it all revolves around carbs.
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That’s the tried and true pre-workout
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@danteism I have one question regarding coming in carb-depleted for the dinner on Wednesday.
Should I try to hit any weaknesses in the gym Wednesday morning so that any supercompensation I might experience gets put toward good use?
For me this would be my lower back so it shouldn’t have an ill-affect on my squat workout the day therafter
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You could do that, yes. When you work a muscle group you deplete it from glycogen and increase it’s insulin sensitivity so it’s more bound to using the energy you consume later on.
Personally I’d do something in addition to lower back as that is quite a small muscle, but that’s up to you. Just make sure it doesn’t intervene with your other training sessions
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Might toss in some beach work. Been a while since I dedicated some love to my biceps and triceps. And some ab work.
Thanks for the reply!
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Are you implying that lower back isn’t a beach muscle?
My pleasure
Haha, it depends on how much lower back fat one has I guess. 
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Good to see you had a “win” in the gym!
I don’t blame you. I’m dreading the day that I hit my goal and then start to strip away the excess fat. I hate being in a deficit. I’m just hungry all day, every day.
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Psyllium husks help with this for me. And pickles. Sometimes I just need a volumizing meal to get me through a few days. Hopefully, you’ll find some strategies that work for you that make it suck less.
Saturday, 1st of September 2018
Weight: 76.3kg (+0.7kg) Still not unexpected since I had extra carbs yesterday. And, further still, I forgot my veggies at home so I had my entire allotment with dinner.
Sleep: maybe 8 hours? Took me a good and solid 2 hours to fall asleep.
Mirror: I look better today than yesterday.
Activity: nothing scheduled for today. Took a morning walk (fasted+HMB) with my weight vest (just loaded it with 8kg). Will eventually go away to visit the folks. More likely than not I’ll bike there. I was thinking about skating there in my inlines, to rehab my ankle, but my respiratory system is still affected by the cold that I had and inline skating is more exhausting than biking.
Other notes: feeling lazy, to the point of my mind trying to convince me that I don’t need to do as much. So, that’s how deep into the diet we are. Speaking of which, tomorrow marks the end of week 7 making this the longest diet I’ve been on. I will most likely miss my target weight as a result of the carb loading but I’ve been below the target weight on several days throughout the week so I feel as if I haven’t failed at least.
Also, I’ve had a very easy time feeling faint. Today during the walk, and after all squat/deadlift sets during the week.
Running low on turmeric so I’ll probably have to order some during the week. Bought new shaker bottles (all Nalgene) as I’ve been using some really cheap plastic shakers that I don’t put much faith in when it comes to it leaching into what I put in them.
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If you normally abandon a diet, then this forum might have been the reason for you to still be on it.
It sounds a bit lame, but for me I found a place where talking about lifting and eating is normal and peeps encourage each other for whatever they are chasing, and that is very motivating.
7 weeks on a pretty hard diet is quite awesome.
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Never abandoned a diet. Always kept exactly to the plan when it comes to dieting. I first dieted for 6 weeks leading up to an abroad trip. Then, another 3 weeks after the trip leading up to the start of my summer vacation. But then, I planned on taking a 4 week break from dieting but it ended up being 2 because I wanted to shed some more fat.
I agree with you. I can count the number of times I’ve received accolades and positive compliments/comments from people in my life on one hand regarding my physique changes. The number of times I’ve had it questioned or been encouraged to cheat is beyond count.
I don’t blame these people as I understand that it can be a stressor for them that I’m making decisions opposite to theirs, but it sure is nice to come on here to these forums and speak to like-minded people.
Thanks man.
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I’ve never seen these and have no idea where I’d find them. But I do have a massive jar of pickles in the refrigerator. The biggest change is my eating habits and timing. I’ve gone from eating oatmeal for breakfast with an occasional protein shake to just having a double protein shake. I also typically eat a peanut butter & jelly sandwich (550ish calories) around 9am when I’m at work but I cut that out too. Just eliminating those two foods/meals I’ve cut my calories by 600 or so…but occasionally I spend the morning hungry.
At the grocery stores in my end of the world you’d find them amongst baking goods near flours and such.
I get mine from an online supplement shop though. The supplement industry here shares a niche with healthy eating which might explain why I can get BCAAs, macadamia nut oil and psyllium husks from the same carriers.
After seeing @mortdk PR I was like, I want to PR. But, I’m on a diet (so unlikely) and I don’t have a barbell. But I thought to myself, what can I do to test myself? And, I went for a muscle-up (and got it).
I’m not supposed to be trying these, given my shoulder pain, and it did irritate it a bit but I didn’t injure it further at least. Seeing my physio Wednesday the week after this one. Then we’ll also check why my left glute medius is giving me pain signals occasionally. My guess is, since my pelvis is slightly rotated, it has to work harder during deadlifts and it can’t catch up from a recovery standpoint.
Took a few jogging steps, my Achilles is almost all healed up. I think I will be able to do my medicine ball chest throws standing and jog after the ball this week assuming there is enough space to do that at the gym (depends on how many people are there).
Been having hunger pangs and some general lethargy otherwise throughout the day but I’ve tried to force myself to be active, went on an inlines ride and two walks. Have had headaches throughout the week, I thought they were more of an office-related issue but they’ve followed me home for the weekend.
I’ve actively focused on chewing these last few days to help alleviate my hunger (it hasn’t helped) but there is also this: Bodybuilder, Heal Thyself so hopefully, I’m still getting something out of it. Being mindful of it has really highlighted how I’d just toss food down my gullet before.
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