121.2 kg (29.09.)
121,6 kg (30.09.) New scale
121,9 (01.10)
121,0 (2.10.)
120,3 (3.10.)
121,3 (4.10.)
121,0 kg (5.10)
113 belly (0)
119 chest (+1)
79 leg (0)
45 arm (-0,5)
Weekly average: 121,2 kg (- 1,1 kg)
Managed to stay on track 
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Good job. Never done it myself but I’m assuming it gets easier to keep it going the longer u stay consistent
U reckon? I assumed the opposite, that cravings would get bad and initial weight loss is easier and gets harder. But we’ll see, I’m not experienced in this whatsoever.
Well habits get more engrained. The body does “settle” in whatever state it’s in for a while. Physiologically I think that’s how it goes. There’s always some negative feedback looping as ur body resists the change in its state so medium term we looking good maybe long term u lose ur mind lel
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@guineapig is kinda right in my experience, psychologically it gets easier as habits become ingrained and results start to show themselves. As long as I keep all the nutrients I need in my diet (healthy fats and protein for me), I find the cravings dissipate too. A couple of months in and I’ll be skipping cheat meals because I just don’t want them enough to justify the loss of progress. What causes me issues is if routines get disrupted too much or if I’m deep in a diet and I’m running out of stuff to “take away” to keep progress going. At the point when carbs are basically gone and I have to start cutting fat of protein, that’s when cravings kick in with a vengeance and things tend to get out of hand.
Just my n = 1 experience.
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All good points!
School hours are making it a little more challenging to time my meals and get adequate nutrition in, which means I’ve got to prepare better:
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I find losing weight easy in general but especially so after the first few weeks. You definitely become accustomed to the habit and can even get used to the hunger, but I also imagine metabolic adaptation plays a role
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Slow-cooker purchase incoming
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I find the stage where you feel both skinny and fat the hardest part of dieting, feels like you’re just failing at dieting and should just go back to perma bulking and be happy and ignorant thinking you’ve got more muscle than you really have.
Usually about 4-6 weeks for me, the compliance side isn’t a major issue it’s just about adapting your normal eating routine to remove caloriesz for me that’s usually fat because I add so much extra unnecessary fat to my diet it’s an easy win, plus then you never have to deal with that low carb flat feeling (and bread, need me some bread at least 2 times a day).
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@alex_uk you are the most fervent advocate of carbs and cheese I’ve ever “met”… and I’m Chinese- rice is literally synonymous with “meal” 
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Cheese on toast is a meal over here! Throw in some beans (baked beans) and life is golden!
Also on a side note my insane bean consumption might be the reason I get to be not as fat as my diet would suggest I should be: The Best Weight Loss Food
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How often are you eating?
Snacks included? 5 to 7 meals on a training day and usually one less on non training days.
Fixed it for you
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It was actually directed at @alex_uk, sorry. Wasn’t paying attention to which log I was in.
Things that stress me (no specific order):
- loneliness (I feel lonely a lot, despite rarely being physically all alone. It’s more of a perceived loneliness because I often feel detached from the things and people around me. Like living behind a wall or under a globe. Like I’m not part of how others experience the world. Also loneliness as in lacking a partner is bothering me. Finding one is stressing me too.)
- being ‘trapped’. Like an animal in a cage, I always need an exit plan or need to know how to leave a certain situation. I’m not talking metaphorically or in an emotional sense either. This is classic anxiety (don’t actually know that, I’m assuming) and is an echo from all the panic attacks I’ve had, which to be positive have gotten much much fewer and weaker. It used to be things like using public transports (which I couldn’t do for about 2 years but is now fine) or more currently things like just sitting in class etc. So I’m kinda always on edge.
- one thing that I know is causing me stress is the fact that I’m very inwardly focused. I can’t stop that but I’m currently focused on the things that are going on inside me and that leads to a lot of overthinking. I basically almost never just live in the moment.
- negative thinking. My default line of thoughts is: Everything that can go wrong, will go wrong. I rarely see the chance but quadruple the risk. This traces WAY back to early teenage years. I also constantly see all of my failures before my eyes, in an exaggerated manner nonetheless. Objectively I haven’t failed more than any other average person. Yet it does not help to know that.
- fear of being a social outcast. This has happened but not in the literal meaning of the word. I am not an outsider and usually fit in well most places I go. Always get a long well with coworkers etc. I never truly lacked social contacts per se but I fail to establish deeper connections with people. I can name a lot friends and some really great ones and countless people I know and get along well with but most of the friends have been my friends for a long time. So moving to a new city is a big thing for me because I fear I won’t be able to make real friends (also means leaving a safe space). I ended up actually lonely the first time I moved out and “lonely” at the end of my time in Munich, where my relationship ended and then the few/ one true friend/s I had moved away. I still had a lot of people I knew, buddys if you will, and got along great with work and gym people, but it still made me feel lonely.
- actually being alone (physically this time or in absence of people I have a connection with). Because it leaves me with my thoughts. You know that strategy to stop thought spirals where you write down your spiraling thoughts. I did that about 3 or 4 weeks ago when I had a particularely bad day and actually got afraid of what I saw, never looking at the piece of paper again.
Ok this got a little deeper than I thought/ anticipated but I was on a roll. I’m sure there’s a million things to add but those things came to mind almost immediately so they must be important.
I don’t know if it’s any comfort, but the discussion arose in relation to you feeling as if you were stressed by things that do not stress other people and while I presumably surround myself with a certain brand of folk I would say that a lot of the things you are describing are, in my view, really normal things. Some perhaps exacerbated by your background, but you are not alone, nor are your peers strictly confined to people that have had a rough go at things.
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This was one of my concerns when we moved around the world. We had never been to Aus and had no idea if we would like it or how hard it would be to make friends.
My advice is that you have to work at it. You can’t make friends sitting at home. When we first moved here we used to accept any offer to do anything social. As we started making friendship groups we got a bit more picky with what we went to. It isn’t easy and it’s deff hard to find a true true friend like those couple of guys that you have known or ever and you just work together. But it can be done, we now have some great friends that are just as good as my oldest dearest friends. Good friendships come from shared experience so to make a good one you have to spend time sharing this together.
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Rush hour at the commercial gym. Yuck!
1 oh box squats
3 x 8 @ 40 kg
2 deadlifts (beltless)
3 x 6 @ 150 kg
3 db hang snatch
5 x 3 @ 32 kg
4 bench press
3 x 18 @ 67,5 kg
3rd was a grind.
5 bent over row
3 x 20 @ 77,5 kg
Form aint too strict here
6 banded wood choppers
4 x 6
Notes:
- deadlifts were a shit show. Felt way heavier than 150 kg is supposed to. Maybe just because I was trying to hurry but I also think using a stiff bar is throwing me off. I want my equipment back! Deads made me mad. Need to make that better next time. Around 160/ 170 I’m gonna start wearing a belt but that can’t be the reason they sucked so much. Not at such low weights (67%). Well, just put a pin in a bad day.
- I also need to better my sleep and water intake.
- this training phase feels weird. The high reps are hard but all the light weights make it seem like I’ve gotten weaker. I trust my coach completely, he knows what he’s doing and with what has been going on, this is probably a smart direction to take, it’s just messing with me a bit .
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