A prime example; 90% lean ground beef is about 7 euros per kilo. But as your fat eventually goes down you’ll need to find something leaner. 95% lean beef is 10-12 euros per kilo thus bringing the total cost up (now if you need to go even lower fat you’ll probably need to ditch red meat and move onto white fish or something which would make it cheaper if you’re not going to compensate for the loss of nutrients)
Figured that was what you meant but couldn’t be sure. Ground chicken is lean and cheap 
Friday, 7th of September 2018
Weight: 76.6kg (-0.3kg)
Sleep: ~8hrs
Mirror: forgot to look before my workout. After my workout, I looked good. Obviously, being leaner still would be nice but for the winter season, this level of leanness will suffice. Will have to run another diet late spring regardless, the only question that will remain is how long it will have to be. But that’s a concern for next year!
4 circuits
Top-half bench press 7 reps @ 90kg
Bench Press 7, 5, 4, 3 @ 65 [0]
Speed bench press 7@45kg
Medicine ball chest throw 7kg 10 reps
Plyo pushup 10 reps
4 circuits
Top-half deadlift 7 reps at 170kg [1]
Deadlift 7@110
Power clean from hang 5 reps at 50kg
Jump good morning kettlebell 10 reps at 32
Broad jump series 8-10 reps
[0]: More missed reps but at least I didn’t fuck up my shoulder any further
[1]: Last set required me to shift in to a higher gear.
Actually got to run after the medicine ball today for my first three circuits. After that the gym filled up. But hey, I got to run without Achilles pain! Happy happy happy!
Time: 1hr 15m
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I ate it once and ever since then it has been haunting me
This sounds bad and I’m an American. I can buy chicken breasts and thighs for $2/lb.
The icky ground chicken I’ve seen here is chicken nuggets. They basically grind up the parts of a rotisserie chicken that you can’t eat, add some flavoring, bread it and fry it.
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Gonna agree with you as usual… ground chicken sounds horrid. I was grocery shopping last weekend and me, being the bargain hunter that I am, noticed the usual $1.69/lb for the hormone-laden chicken breasts, but then I saw $1.29/lb. At first I thought I had discovered the Holy Grail of gainz, but then I saw that it was just ground chicken. It looked about as disgusting as one would imagine. It was one step away from becoming the paste that they use to make chicken nuggets lol.
That being said, “fresh” (whatever that means) chicken breasts here at super cheap. I got 5.95lbs for a shade over 10 bucks a few days ago. I’m pretty happy with that. Even though eating copious amounts makes it disappear faster, even if I eat 2lbs of chicken every day (which will most likely never happen) I’m paying less than $4 to eat chicken pretty much all day. That’s pretty nice. Benefits of living in the Midwest I guess 
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Sounds like a case of food poisoning!
Meaning you aren’t supposed to have standards or something?
The ground chicken that is available to me is of fairly high quality I’d say. If I were to have either one of you over for dinner I’m confident I could make several meals where I substituted ground beef for ground chicken and you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.
That’s not what we have here. Here it is just chicken that is ground in the same way as ground beef. Meaning they run it through something like this,
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Saturday, 8th of September 2018
Weight: 75.6kg (-1kg). Unlikely that I will hit my target weight of 74.8kg tomorrow.
Sleep: 6hrs
Mirror: Back to looking bottom heavy now that my stomach has been emptied
Woke up feeling crazy wired. That’s what I get for bringing work home and working until 23 PM. Had fun though.
Went for an AM walk. Been coughing and feeling a bit under the weather. Chest is hurting a little, and crackling, so I’ll take it easy lest I get sick. Again. Working in an open office is a breeding ground for bacteria and I suppose being on a diet I’m more susceptible than usual.
Random thought: on my next diet I’ll do my weigh-ins and pictures on Saturday mornings. Why? I have no problem eating the same thing throughout the work week but the weekend is when I want to cook and experiment with stuff. This throws in minor perturbations just before taking measurements and makes it more difficult to gauge the efficiency of the majority of the diet effort. For instance, I love to make kale chips but they cause me to bloat a lot, so I avoid them because I’ll be taking a measurement band to my stomach tomorrow.
Today’s experiment: cooking with black garlic - I loved it. Also had some really hot sauce to go with the meal, hot to the point where it made the snot running out of my nose feel spicy as it ran across my upper lip.
@danteism, I remember from your log when you were on a diet that towards the end you started catching the common cold more and more often or am I just making things up?
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Man, the memories of the end of my diet are a blur, but that could very well be the case. At least I do remember complaining about getting sick at some point.
Eating a lot of raw garlic has usually helped me with not getting sick or recovering if I ever did.
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Pretty much. I mean, look at us. At the State Fair they make cheeseburgers with Krispy Kreme donuts as the bun. We’ll eat anything except raw vegetables. 
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I don’t believe I’d find that appetising even if I were stoned!
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That’s a good idea. I kind of want to try this too, but I don’t think my progress will be noticeable. I might do every 2 weeks, or maybe a 4 week check-in. And I agree, when I’m in my routine, it’s easy to eat the same “boring” things. If anything, I prefer it. Having prepared meals for myself makes everything much easier.
hahaha! State Fairs are always an absolute shit show. I would never eat that kind of thing, partially because it’s probably a 3,000 calorie “meal” and partly because there’s a 0% chance that combination of foods would sit well in my stomach lol
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Check-in with us however rarely you want but weigh yourself at least once weekly.
This looks way better: NFL stadium food: cheese, meat and the $75, 7lbs burger – in pictures | Sport | The Guardian
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I like to weigh myself every time I go to the gym. If I ever have enough free time, I’d like to go back through my log and record all my weights and then make a chart. I’m not a big math guy, but when it comes to lifting weights, I have an intense passion for the numbers. It’s weird.
Man, I hate you for posting that. I’m on the third day of my diet and I’m going to be thinking about that for the next 8 weeks!!! I’ve never had anything in those pictures, but to get my hands on one of those burgers right now…I would do some baaaaaad shit.
Sunday, 9th of September 2018
Weight: 75kg (-0.6kg since yesterday, -0.7kg since last Sunday). Above my target weight by 0.2kg. That’s what I get for having a big mid-week dinner 
Sleep: 9hrs
- Weight: 75.7 kg.
- Shoulders: 116 cm (+1.5cm)
- (Lower) Waist: 77.5 cm (-1cm)
- Chest: 94 cm (-1cm)
- Arm: 30 cm (-0.5cm)
- Neck: 36 cm (no change)
- Calf: 36 cm (mo change)
- Thigh: 55 cm (+0.5cm)
I seem to not have caught a cold after all. Went climbing today, had a pretty good session but unlike all previous sessions I managed to make my shoulder worse doing a particular move. Not good. Will hopefully not mess with my training that much this week.
The diet continues. Will eat the same as last week as I’m still losing weight under this paradigm. Starting week four of 6WTS so I’m dropping reps in favour of heavier weights as dictated by the program.
Pretty happy with this week’s measurements, especially my waist measurement.
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I thought I read on your logs you were having an easy time? I’ve been craving nachos for the last 6-7 weeks so I feel you.
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Monday, 10th of September 2018
Weight: 75.1kg (+0.1kg unexpected)
Sleep: >8hrs
Mirror: don’t remember.
Workout
4 circuits, 30-60s rest between exercises and ~90s between circuits [0]
Top-half seated overhead press 3@60kg
Standing military press 3@45kg
Push press 3@45 kg
Medicine ball push-press throw overhead 10@7kg
Feet elevated plyo push-up 10
4 circuits, 30-90s rest between exercises and ~90s between circuits [1]
Top-half squat 5@170kg
Front squat 5@70kg
Power snatch from hang 3 reps @ 45kg.
Jump squat with bar 10@40kg
Vertical jump series 10 reps
Ergometer 250m [2]
[0] I don’t need much rest before medicine ball work or the plyo push-ups hence the spread.
[1] 90s between top-half and front, then 30-60s between exercises
[2] Another 2s PR on my final circuit
Total time: 1h20m (not including warm-up nor post-workout clean-up as usual).
Thoughts and notes: My left upper-right glute was screaming at me from my first set of standing military press. It was actually worse during that part of the workout than it was during squats. Pain has not subsided after the workout either. Overall, dropping several reps (4) from the overhead presses was the right call and a step in the right direction. But. I’m still feeling ground up, beat up, and demotivated. I’m tired of feeling
- Increasingly injured,
- not having time for a morning walk,
- running late for work everyday leading to working hours on the weekend/after office hours.
These workouts simply run too long for my taste. And so, I have ultimately decided to abandon 6WTS in favour of something that is my own design that is very inspired by ALAS. I’ll post it later, when I put the draft down in text.
This will let me forgo the barbell bench press for instance, and work on some other stuff that I know to be weaknesses that no pre-made program can take into account obviously.
Honestly, had I ran this program at the start of my diet it could maybe have worked this is not sustainable for me right now. Obviously, the climbing has an impact too.
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So, tomorrow I’m running something that I probably won’t run “normally” on Tuedays (just 3 weeks left on the diet). My intent is to run energy systems work on Wednesdays, but this Wednesday I’m taking a fasted bloodtest at 8 AM, and I’m not allowed to exercise before it. After that, I have a physio appointment, and after that: work.
Hence, tomorrow, I want to kill two birds with one stone. I want to do something that is conditioning, but also strength work. I’ll run 5-6 circuits of
- Snatch-grip Deadlifts. My grip will be hit by climbing in the evening anyway.
- Dips (we’ll see if I can still do these without pain - if not, just straight up dropping it and finishing the workout with dumbbell presses)
- Power clean from hang
- Barbell row/Inverted row depending on equipment availability
This is essentially the Saturday strength circuit from ALAS, but a row instead of pull-ups, as I’m climbing in the evening, and that session will hit the musculature that pull-ups hit.
Might make the deads Romanian, this is to stress my glute a little bit less as it is still sending pain signals without fail throughout today and I’ll get around to normal deadlifts soon enough.
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Hahaha. I meant it’s easy to eat the healthy foods…not so easy to avoid daydreaming about the unhealthy ones!
Good call switching up the workouts. Your body will have a tougher time healing in a caloric deficit so it’s a smart move to avoid the nagging areas as much as possible
Cheers, appreciate the support
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