What led you to settle on this choice?
That is just the only one that agrees with my stomach
Thanks. I will get that book.
You out it very eloquently. My instincts are just working against my goal of changing my body composition.
Maybe now that I have stopped going to failure, my weights will not go down as much or as quickly. We will see in 6 weeks because I am starting the cut tomorrow
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- There is no tomorrow!
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Well in that case screw dieting
Is there any signs that tell you that you are not eating enough protein or fat? Because that’s my number one thing that messes up my ability to diet. I am always worried if I stop thinking about eating then I won’t get enough protein or fat. So my mind is always on my next meal and how much protein and fat I have eaten so far and it actually makes me hungrier. I guess it’s a “Nocebo”
If you follow the plan in the book, you won’t have this issue.
With the diet you posted, you’re at no risk of undereating fats.
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This is your issue across the board man
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Yeah but if I went by feel I would probably eat like 1200 calories a day. I don’t really have a drive to eat if I just stop caring about hitting my macros
I am trying to change it
Yeah, you’ve demonstrated that your instincts aren’t helpful at the moment. This is why plans are helpful.
For myself, I made it simpler by just eliminating carbs. When I only have 2 levers, it’s easy.
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Meal prep and eat what you prep. Fool proof.
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Do you have a log? Maybe it would work to just start doing stuff, writing it down, and we can see what happens over time. Then we can give advice if we’re seeing actual trends away from goal. Rather than trying to do research and predict all possible paths ahead of time that’s just leaving you more anxious to start
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If you can get it where you are you could try reta at very low dose. But if you can go without then do
Given he has expressed that he tends to undereat when left to his own devices, what do you find would be the benefit here?
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I might make a log. But it might make me even more anxious
I already have slow digestion. I don’t need it to be slower. But I have thought about using a GLP1 before. But I think my hunger stems from working out, and when I eat the stomach acid irritates my stomach causing hunger pangs for hours until the food finally leaves the stomach. I haven’t worked out in 72 hours and I haven’t eaten in like 16 hours and I’m not hungry at all. I’m working on improving my gut health
The only time I’m actually hungry and want to eat is the 48 hours after working out, unless I purposely stall my lifts so I’m not producing much of a stimulus. Now that I’ve broken my addiction of processed food I really don’t care about eating. And because I know I am fat it makes me think I should just eat as little as possible. But after a good work out I am really hungry and most of the time this leads me to going over maintenance by 1000-2000 calories easily. I did that Thursday night but I corrected it by only eating 1000 calories the next day. Now I am back to baseline hunger without gaining weight
Have you ever considered employing intermittent fasting/having a small eating window?
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Do it in spurts.
I’m going to be frank, you’re very fat so initial weight loss should be fairly easy.
You could probably realistically target 2 pounds per week in a calorie cut for the first 10%, then dropping below 20% reconsider deficit from tdee for the ever recommended 1 pound per week.
The real trick here is developing and using self-will. Nobody can sell you that. It sounds like you already know what to do, and there won’t be a magic bullet. Just do it.
I am thinking about it now
I was responding to This. I don’t have time to read 32 responses it was a response to his getting to 150lbs as fast as he can. If you have time to sit and spend time reading responses all day that’s good but I dont and it was a response to the original post .