Honestly? I feel like I should have done better in these 3 weeks. I’ve fallen prey to a little bit of vulturing at times, and my first weekend just ended up as a SNAFU for a few reasons. I’m going to go for another two weeks for now, then take a break, and go back in.
In other news, I’ve made two huge discoveries… fat free Feta Cheese and 2 lb tubs of greek yogurt cucumber sauce. The cheese is almost pure protein and the cucumber sauce makes raw veggies very tolerable at only 35 calories in 2 tbsp.
Well I started yesterday. I really wish I had before/after pictures, I’ve seriously got to get a camera. I’ll take video of some horrible posing after the gym tonight.
Honestly? I feel like I should have done better in these 3 weeks. I’ve fallen prey to a little bit of vulturing at times, and my first weekend just ended up as a SNAFU for a few reasons. I’m going to go for another two weeks for now, then take a break, and go back in.
In other news, I’ve made two huge discoveries… fat free Feta Cheese and 2 lb tubs of greek yogurt cucumber sauce. The cheese is almost pure protein and the cucumber sauce makes raw veggies very tolerable at only 35 calories in 2 tbsp.[/quote]
Hey 12 pounds and 3 inches is pretty darned good. Congrats.
I’ve been taking pics…but I’m not sharing til the end, pbbbbbbt.
I will say that I’m making noticeable progress and have lost the average 10lbs total in 4 weeks(in previous rounds, this was the norm for me)… -4" off my belly, -2.5" off my butt and -1.5" off natural waist.
I’m thinking of riding this thing out for as long as I can tolerate it. I don’t want to take a break because it’s too hard mentally to come back to.
Samdain- I can relate…I’ve had several of those not so perfect days. sigh But when you add it all up, weekly, the deficit is still significant enough…
This diet obviously isn’t for a beginner, right? I don’t think I would recommend it to on overweight, out of shape person.
They’d do better eating something like 10% under maintenance and going a solid 6 months on a beginner routine (e.g. Starting Strength) and progressing until their strength and conditioning are drastically improved - right?
This diet obviously isn’t for a beginner, right? I don’t think I would recommend it to on overweight, out of shape person.
They’d do better eating something like 10% under maintenance and going a solid 6 months on a beginner routine (e.g. Starting Strength) and progressing until their strength and conditioning are drastically improved - right?[/quote]
You’re probably right that beginners would do just fine on a less restrictive diet, but if that person had the ability to stick to the diet I’m sure he or she would see faster results this way.
This diet obviously isn’t for a beginner, right? I don’t think I would recommend it to on overweight, out of shape person.
They’d do better eating something like 10% under maintenance and going a solid 6 months on a beginner routine (e.g. Starting Strength) and progressing until their strength and conditioning are drastically improved - right?[/quote]
The book mentions RFl dieting for those that have not exercised and/or have high BF levels. There are 3 categories.
This diet obviously isn’t for a beginner, right? I don’t think I would recommend it to on overweight, out of shape person.
They’d do better eating something like 10% under maintenance and going a solid 6 months on a beginner routine (e.g. Starting Strength) and progressing until their strength and conditioning are drastically improved - right?[/quote]
Cat 3 is geared more towards the obese dieter. It allows cheats and refeeds while keeping the individual in an overall caloric deficit.
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
I guess it depends on the individuals personality as well.
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Bigtime. I started out and made a lot of progress in de-fattening using a vague portion control diet, and it was tremendously easier than RFL (just based on food choices)
But some people are just really going to want to go after their goal, and RFL might be a good match.
Reading the book can also be very educational, as it established sort of an upper bound of extremity “you can be as hardcore as you want, as long as you don’t cross these lines”.
This diet obviously isn’t for a beginner, right? I don’t think I would recommend it to on overweight, out of shape person.
They’d do better eating something like 10% under maintenance and going a solid 6 months on a beginner routine (e.g. Starting Strength) and progressing until their strength and conditioning are drastically improved - right?[/quote]
When I first read this I thought you said “eating 100% under maintenance” lol
It’s been 11 days since I began this EOD refeed strategy. So far, I am down about 3.5 lbs and I haven’t experienced any noticeable dropoff in strength. I tied my PR squat from when I was 217 last year last week with much less effort than was required when I did it at 217.
In other news, I just ate 9 slices of cinnamon raisin bread with (light) reddi whip on it. Surprisingly good.
[quote]Stronghold wrote:
It’s been 11 days since I began this EOD refeed strategy. So far, I am down about 3.5 lbs and I haven’t experienced any noticeable dropoff in strength. I tied my PR squat from when I was 217 last year last week with much less effort than was required when I did it at 217.
In other news, I just ate 9 slices of cinnamon raisin bread with (light) reddi whip on it. Surprisingly good.[/quote]
I was down for the count for over a week, but aside from a few days I took off to get better I stuck to the diet.
Now I’m back on but I don’t know for how long…today was originally the day I had planned to stop. I guess I’ll go another two weeks to make up for being sick and not training.
This cold kicked my butt…Oh gym, how I’ve missed you…