I’ve switched to black coffee/tea only at work, though at home I’ll take a little sugar/milk. At my job we are constantly being brought food - delicious breakfast burritos, donuts, desserts; lunches are often catered - full of carbs and fried foods; pizza. I stopped eating the donuts a long time ago - there’s no way I need that sugar - but only stopped accepting the burritos and pizza in December.
I feel like I’ve removed 1500cal/day from my diet but the scale thinks I’ve only removed 500cal/day by my calculations.
Is this a real thing, or did you just get day drunk? If it’s real, I want it. Actually, either way I’m in.
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It is amazing. It’s basically a spicy chicken parm sub with pink vodka sauce and tons of cheese.
I had McDonald’s for dinner last night. First time in for ever and almost didn’t have a choice 
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This is half confession, half T-ransformation.
For the first time ever, I’m taking part in this contest and I’m just not really motivated to lose any weight. I definitely want to look better/leaner, but I’m not trying very hard. And I find it hard to care. I can’t sustain the level of leanness that looks cool, so what’s the point of getting there again?
Man, I’m hungry.
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Dude, you do look cool.
Even without any context of your life and injuries, you look good and perform well. Incorporate that, and your height. Fuck me. If I look like you in when I catch up in years, I wouldn’t be disappointed.
I feel that a drawback of modernity is the ever greater experienced inadequacy people apparently suffer through as on every measure its possible to compare oneself against too many people.
Before my grandfather passed I remember talking with him about the old days and he expressed something that I feel is relevant in this context, namely that in his day the strongest person around was someone you’d seen, and maybe knew the name of. There was a smartest person too. The best dancer etcetera. Every clique was composed of the best at something. And so very often, in every respect, you’d be among the top… 50 in your world. At anything.
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You’re so positive!
I’m going to Chick-fil-A… right now. I’m in the parking lot.
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T-ransformation Check-in:
Week 1 & Week 2: I started at 224.4lbs and I had a quick drop at the beginning of the challenge when my daily average carbs shifted from 300-400g to 100-150g (-3.5lbs).
Weeks 3 to 5: I ended up losing a total of 4.75lbs until last weekend when I was out of town for a wedding, stayed at my in-laws and had a nutritional blackout (+2lbs, -2.75lbs total).
Week 6 (current): Started IF this week, and am starting to trend back down to the territory I was in prior to the weekend binge. Basing numbers on weekly averages for consistency, but this morning I hit my previous low BW of the challenge at 218.2lbs.
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Join those of us on dark side of gaining weight for the challenge.
We have cookies.
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I honestly have a much easier time losing weight when I’m fasting, as many of you have mentioned, but it’s really hard for me to power through the morning workouts that way. My dinner discipline disappears if I’ve been eating all day, though; it’s weird.
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You look like you are getting wider. Shoulders looking good mate.
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Damn it. How do you “dislike” a post?
Incredible work, man!
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I’ve had this exact conversation (with shorter words), several times in the past few days. Mostly around insecurities and what attributes younger colleagues value though, because I think that’s where the biggest impact is.
Didn’t really think I was progressing much but I guess I started a lot fatter than I remembered. Right pic is post 2nd lasagna meal
Starting to kinda see ab outline and it actually looks like I have pecs instead of a blob.
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Just focus on transforming one muscle most people dont think about, won’t take as much effort as total body and everyone will be like “wow dopest left tibialis I’ve ever seen”
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Ate clean all week - squeaky clean - and now this to mark the end of a hard work week. But at least I’m cleaning up the house (energetically, to music) while I enjoy it.
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Nice house!
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Ending on a Thursday!? I’m jealous
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Screw all You guys. I’m sitting in the gym parking lot eating Oreos hating the thought of working out. Been here for 20 minutes and still in the truck.
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