I’ve been dropping weight at a fairly reasonable weight recently, so maybe I haven’t learnt that.
Well that is just incompatible goals, no? We all know how this works already, so I won’t go into the obvious. And maybe there are people who can actually lose weight and get bigger/stronger at the same time, but I assume they are either enormously patient, enormously lucky, or enormously on all the drugs.
Or enormously untrained is also an option. When I started lifting again, nearly 2 years ago, I was packing on the muscle, gaining strength and consistently losing multiple pounds a week. Almost makes me nostalgic.
But in my current situation, my honest aim is to not get much weaker as I lose some excess blubber. I think I’ve been fairly successful at that, apart from probably on bench (because I haven’t been doing it). I pretend to myself that my goal is to get stronger, because who the fuck wants to work hard just to maintain, but my honest goal is to just not get weaker for a short time while I become less Jabba-like.
Yeah, I did not mention the noob gains, because that doesn’t apply to anyone here.
You could just go Full Simo. Eat all the food, get strong and swole. The metabolism shift would make it easier to then shift out the fat again.
(Advice I cannot bring myself to follow)
I don’t think you give Simo enough credit for the control he has over his diet. His version of “eat all the food” looks, from this distance, to be remarkably similar to my version of “moderately strict dieting”.
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Lol, I know, and I suspect he is at least a bit careful with what he eats. The point being that he has picked a lane and just goes for it, without caring overly much about putting on a layer of cushion in the process.
Me, on the other hand…I just ordered two large pizzas. For lunch. For just me. Which will be the only thing I eat over the next few days, probably.
I haven’t eaten pizza in months. My stomach just skipped a beat.
It is literally the first real pizza I have had in…I don’t know. A year? Driving it home in the car nearly made me insane.
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Are u really living if u don’t eat pizza semi frequently
I’ve checked my pulse and it’s a bit dicey, so I’ve ordered a Papa John’s stat.
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Pizza has never improved my gym experience. Pasta on the other hand… oh yeah! Be like Garfield. Saved by the miracle of lasagna.
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Why didn’t I read this post before meal planning for the week?
Damnit.
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I am going to literally eat some more of my pizza right now, just to spite you a tiny bit.
The fact you have some pizza left, 4 hours later makes me seriously question your dedication.
Do You Even Permabulk Bro?
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I did say they were 2 large pizzas? And that I hadn’t had pizza in a year? I was stuffed after the first four slices, was a struggle to put down two more just now.
But leftover pizza is basically like a food orgasm, so I have that for the next two days.
I don’t think I’ve ever experienced leftover pizza. I find it difficult to wrap my head around the idea that someone could leave edible pizza for another time.
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Wut. Leftover pizza is one of the greatest accidental inventions of mankind.
You might be right, but that would involve me not finishing the whole pizza the first time.
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Funny thing is right now I am not being at all careful. In fact I am eating a fair bit of crap especially at nights. Chips, biscuits, cheese and crackers etc…
But because I meal prep my lunches each week and I eat the same thing for breakfast and my 2 meals at work Every day. The only variable is what my wife cooks for dinner. This is always healthy because it’s what she eats and gives the kids so no chance of it being junk.
So by being boring and consistent for most of the day the little bit of crap I snack on later isn’t a big factor.
When I go back to doing a hypertrophy block then I will be More careful as I will be eating a lot more.
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I’d say trt is designed for those who experience negative impacts on their health because of their hormon imbalances (erectile disfunction, loss of libido, depression, constant fatigue & insomnia, ostheoporosis etc.)
For everything/ everyone else - why shit yourself? If you want to be on steroids, that’s fine. No one in a community like this one will judge you.
As far as trt goes I wish I lived in England or the US because where I live, it’s a hassle at best and a fucking nightmare at worst, it seems.
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