I haven’t really experienced this as you and others have, but I also think given my own struggles (eating disorder related), everything tastes good because I go through cycles where everything gets thrown out of wack.
Some years ago when I was at my lowest, my mom was trying to help, and gave me some soup, and with all the lack of electrolytes I asked her what she put in it because it tasted so unbelievably good, and she just goes:
“Salt hunny. I put salt in it”. lol
Now you’ve made me crave banana nut bread.
Sweet potatoes with a dash of cinnamon is like my favorite thing. I started searching for good sources of potassium to replace sodium and they fill the bill very nicely.
Pumpkin pie spice if I really want to get wild.
I can get crazy with add ons though. A smidge of this and a little of that and I’m eating a bowl of pie filling without the crust. 
I love raw sweet potatoes. It freaks my co workers out when I munch on them like an apple, skin and all.
My friend got me on air fried sweet potatoes with taco meat cottage cheese and hot honey. (Also a bit of avacado). Makes a super yummy taco bowl.
Photographic evidence of me undoing my own best efforts.
Brown sugar, butter, splash of lemon juice.
Honey sounds really good though. I hit them with a dash of chili powder, but wife doesn’t like spicy, so just for me.
The sweet & spicy combo is powerful!
@samul got me on the sweet potatoes some years back. Thanks Sam!
I do something similar but I use hot honey, butter, sea salt.
Wtf with recent forum updates. I couldn’t find this thread for days.
I’ve had to favorite this link, on phone and computer.
So I’m migrating towards a garage lifting setup for O-lifts.
Currently have just a 4x6 stall mat, so Olympic drops are pretty much not doable. I can use crumb rubber up to 95lbs but none of it likes a full drop from overhead.
The obvious solution is twofold- a) a thicker layer of platform material, like another layer of stall matt and a layer of plywood underneath maybe. And (b) more directly to the point, a pair of crash pads.
Titan sells a good pair, but they won’t ship to HI. Amazon won’t even ship the knockoffs to HI.
I considered calling an upholstery shop and comissioning a set, but I think the odds are high that I spend a lot of effort getting something that doesn’t work.
Good news!
I have a work trip to Phoenix, and there’s a gym supply store near the hotel. They sell a well-reviewed crash pad pair. I’m just going to pick them up and fly them back - so in a few weeks, I should be O-lifting more seriously at home!
I was looking into crash pads for my garage gym in the past and Bells of Steel has good ones as well as Xtreme Monkey. Not sure about shipping to you though as I’m in Canada.
Another solid solution is to pick up a set of gymnastics mats. They’re all the same mats: just different names/uses.
Similar to how you can buy a sled strap for lifting and pay $70 for it or buy one for your car and pay $30 for it.
Agreed, definitely good DIY options as well. I ended up just making deadlift blocks out of some 2x4 and rubber mats.
Whoop whoop, excited to hear it! Crash pads are great, so worth it.
This is the pair I have, I love them. Can vouch for them, they’re great quality for their price point.
I just realized you can press ‘G and U’ on keyboard and it will take you to unread. You can do this from any page on the website.
well it seems i have learnt something today. Thanks
Check in at the end of week 3.
Weight is still dropping in a nice steady line, not as much as i wanted each week but then i think I’m doing is more sustainably than i have previously and keeping carbs a bit higher. On the lip side gym performance has continued to increase (getting more reps and weight) on all lifts so i think I’ve got the balance right at the moment.
Current Diet for week day is:
Morning
Coffee
Workout
Porridge (50g of oats & 1 pint of milk) with two scoops of why and a handful of raisons
10 snack
2 eggs, 5 egg whites, 2 bacon medallions and a pint of skimmed milk & tomatoes or onions and an apple
Lunch
250g chicken (breast or thighs) and veg
Dinner
250g meat (we vary this each day) and carbs and veg (traditional meals all home cooked)
Then at the weekend i’m doing:
Breakfast
Coffee
Lunch
Protein shake - 2 scoops & something small like a sausage sandwich or a crumpet and some fruit (normally an apple)
Dinner
Home cooked dinner 250g meat plus lots of carbs and loads of veg.
Evening Snacks
A few of whatever the kids bake or buy, more a social thing really
Seems to be working well at the moment. Fasting for breakfast at the weekend isn’t too bad although i have been a little grumpy until lunch comes along.
I’ve made sure my chicken lunches are packed with flavour, I’ve been on Facebook trying out all the healthy fake fast food recipes, some work some don’t but its different every day.
To my lunch was fake KFC which was chicken thighs in cornflakes in the air fryer. Was ok, but not amazing.
Hope everyone else is still progressing well and sorry for the long post.
PS. if you want to pick apart my diet please do!
You’re dropping 1.5kg a week while feeling good and improving on all lifts. What could anyone possibly critique? We’d probably do better to take notes.
I 100% thought the G+U thing was going to be a joke of some sort. Thanks!
This is fantastic! Thank you!
But how did you stumble upon this? Were you just madly trying everything in hopes of finding unread? “I just realized” doesn’t really give enough information.
