I learnt from my dad that eating everything on the table even if it isn’t on your plate is compulsory 
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This week has been a wash for me. My grandfather passed away and then I wound up being sick as a dog too so this whole week has sucked. But once I get back into the swing of things I’ll be pushing hard again.
Checking in. Post gym flex from this morning.
252 pounds.
Might have to join @T3hPwnisher on this Vince Gironda diet if I plan to hit the low 240s by the end of this thing.
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Sorry to hear about your grandfather. Keep your head up.
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One of us! One of us!
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@whiplash1 my condolences - I’m very sorry for your loss.
@shaneinga - you look fantastic! Well done.
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Grocery shopping this weekend should be easy. 
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Appreciate it. Dropped some fat, still a long way to go.
That’s honestly one of the big reasons I got into carnivore. “High speed/low drag”. I was doing what could generously be referred to as “dirty keto” prior to that, and was shopping at 4 different grocery stores each week to pick up all my weird ingredients and frankenfoods (“keto bread” can’t be a thing). Cutting out the noise and focusing on the signal really just freed up a LOT of bandwidth.
Same to be said with cutting my meals down to 2 a day. Just simple. “What am I going to pack for lunch at work? Oh yeah: nothing.”
Although it was the Velocity Diet that got me here in the first place, and that’s pretty much as high speed/low drag as it gets! What am I going to eat? Oh yeah: Metabolic Drive, haha.
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Yeah I hear you on that. I have gone low carb for the most part. I still eat an apple, broccoli, and a salad if not broccoli, daily.
Biggest offenders right now are probably pistachios and whatever Quest foods kick I am on for the week. Right now it’s the 200 calorie muffins. The problem with these are they are too sweet. Which causes me to want more sweets. Which usually ends up with a scoop of peanut butter with honey aka an additional 300 cals. 
Lactose free milk, cottage cheese, and whey isolate are about the only non steak, meat, and eggs things I eat.
I will also have to find a good steak only option at our weekly mexican spot.
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I relate way too well to this. Too easy to think “they’re nuts: heart healthy, full of good fats”, and that’s the rub: they’re FULL of them. We were never meant to eat these things by the handful. And same with Quest products: I remember John Meadows calling it “Frankenfiber”, and all those tricks we use to convince ourselves with the “net carbs”, but just as you observed: the body can’t tell the difference. Sweet is sweet. I was eating SO many protein bars, haha. And sunflower butter.
Regarding the Mexican spot, a few different avenues, depending on the menu. I’d assume they have SOMETHING with carne asada: I either just try to get that ala carte, or a carne asada burrito “sólo carne, extra carne” and just eat the insides of it. And if it’s a place that does breakfast burritos, there’s your steak and eggs right there, haha.
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Yeah I know better than to eat these Quest things. It is funny what you can convince yourself of in the moment as you are walking past them in the grocery store. They won’t make the cart this week.
My typical eats at our mexican spot is texas fajitas, and my wife eats my tortillas, rice and beans. It is basically a big plate of meat and veggies. I need to make sure I leave the chips alone prior to them coming out though.
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I have had a coach for 3 weeks now. She is kicking my butt. High volume, high intensity, supported by a slight surplus of the standard body building diet. So chicken, rice/potatoes, green veggies, a bit of avocados and nut butter, etc.
But, I am getting obliques. And so many veins are coming through.
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How is the book? Is Gironda’s writing style as in your face as his personal was? I’ve seen a bunch of stuff About his work, but I haven’t ever read much of Vince’s stuff directly.
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It’s a mixed bag. You’ve summed up his writing style well, and he’s very unapologetic about what he thinks and feels. I feel like the book takes a long time to actually get to it’s own point, and it’s co-authored by a HIT/Arthur Jones trained/inspired person, which I feel like was just to latch onto the popularity of that at the time. I found it curious that it doesn’t contain any actual “programs”. Vince talks about 8x8, he talks about movement selection and execution, rest times, etc, but there’s never a point where he lays out a full week of training.
He’s very exacting on technique and execution and how that impacts the body’s development. He truly was a body BUILDER: focused on how to actually shape the muscle with the action of training. It’s a different world for someone with a strength background. He also employs no calorie/macro counting at all, which I found refreshing, especially given that he was THE nutrition guru of the time.
I had to get an e-book from a shady site that ultimately just scanned and uploaded a hardcopy of the book, as it’s currently out of print, and that set me back like $20 and was worth the cost. I don’t think I’d be satisfied if I paid the cost of what it would take to get a legit copy of it.
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How it’s going:
It really isn’t, for me.
But I was candid about that up-front - I’m still training, but other priorities have taken the front seat in my life and that doesn’t look likely to change in the foreseeable.
I honest-to-god work 2 jobs - at this point it’s not “day job plus side work”, it’s first and second job by any reasonable standard - and have 4 homeschooled kids with whom I’m very involved, and a new puppy. Training is on autopilot and diet is see-food.
I’m OK with this for now.
As I’ve said many times - if I can run a mile, do 20 pullups, and put something heavy over my head, I’m doing OK.
We’ll see what the after pics look like now that I’ve shifted to 2 miles running every training session. Probably the same as the before.
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You look great! Shape and definition really coming in - awesome to hear the coach has been a good addition
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Slowly making physique changes (would look even better if I knew how lighting worked). Back down to roughly 187lbs
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Thanks for the write up! It’s cool that the book is out there, but too bad it wasn’t a little more “complete.”
Lifter/coach/writer is a tough tri-fecta. We get spoiled around here!
Did you see anything you’ll use in training? Are you gonna get down on Sisyphus Squats?