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Ok..weighing yourself Monday with a Sunday night refeed is major issue. You always weigh yourself the morning before the cheat meal...always before eating or drinking anything and always after going to the bathroom. That is how you get consistent readings. Never ever weigh yourself after a cheat meal...the number is completely inaccurate due to water and sodium retention etc. I dont see a problem at all with the beef.
P
Ok then I'll weight myself on Sunday now!
Eric
Hey Eric, I hope your diet is going good! Just curious over here, what are your stats? Already know your weight obviously, but how tall are you? What do you think is your greatest and weakest bodypart? Any plans of competing anytime soon? Sorry if you mentioned this in previous posts, I didn't bother to check..
-Primal
I'm 5'9'', my best parts were legs, back & abs, weakest part: arms. I say were because honestly I'm pretty close to have everything matched-up now, legs used to be growing insanely fast when I was young it was ridiculous, but today I can't train them like I would like since my lower back is hurting, so now legs are not overpowering the rest as it used to be and arms have pretty much catch-up with the rest.
Last time I competed was in 1990, I stopped training in 1991, took a 20 years break (trained 2 years divided in a few failed come back during this 20 years, failed mostly due to hernias hurting bad), then started back in 2011, at this time I told myself I would give 5 years of good training to see if I can compete again (in 2016), so that is the goal if everything go well. I'm aiming to compete in natural competitions in master category and would like to carry on into grand-master after that.
Eric
Weighted me this morning, 207.0lbs, so a 0.8lbs loss.
After one month, I lost only 3.2lbs so far... My goal is to loose 25lbs in 4 month. To get there mean I should loose at least 6lbs per month.
Since I'm nowhere near that, I think it's time to be more aggressive and drop the carbs.
Still 21.8lbs to go.
Eric
I aim for 2lbs per week. If im below that things need adjusting...ie more cardio, less carbs etc If I drop more then 2 then lower cardio a bit etc you get the picture. Going a week without dropping anything to me is a wasted week and things need to be re-evaluated big time.
P
Yes this is exactly how I feel, I want results. As I stated in my first post, it seems my body adapt very fast so I need to be aggressive.
If I need one more month to lean where I want/need to be, well that's one less month I can build muscle in my year. The last month was pretty much a loss for me.
Eric
But in a month losing 3.2 pounds, how do you look? how do you feel? If you had no access to a scale, would you feel on target? I think you would benefit from weighing everyday still and taking a median. You're weight does seem to fluctate a bit and you seem like the kinda guy who likes to be precise. It's actually interesting when you do it daily and make a chart to really see the drop. But I am just like that - anything to convert progress into a number or a chart I like to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by TT Eric
I'm also curious if you really do need to lose 25 pounds. Some people hold water like a camel, others like myself simply don't hold onto any water weight. If I lost 25 pounds, it would be a drastic difference - perhaps you are much the same? I've seen people lose 10-20 pounds and not look any bit leaner (and they weren't even fat to begin with). Others can lose 10 pounds and it truly be 10 pounds of pure bodyfat, not glycogen, not muscle loss. Perhaps you don't need to lose quite so much, and doing so might bring you into competition lean - which is likely not what you want to be doing!
I feel like I've lost that, 3.2lbs, not much change since the beginning. Mirror says not much change.
If I loose 25lbs I'll be competition ready, I'll be between 5-8% IMO. So far in the 2 previous year I wasn't able to get lean enough, so I would have failed if I was doing it to compete.
I diet for 2 things, to get lean enough to take advantage of insulin sensibility afterwards and as a practice to know better my body and what it take to prepare for a competition at 43 y/o.
When I was young all I needed is a static diet, no change and I was loosing non stop until I was cut enough to compete.
About water, I do lean very linear. My weight doesn't fluctuate much.
Thanks
Eric
I wonder if you're simply eating too much. Personally I think you're losing weight, so it's a success - however if you want to be losing more, you simply need to be doing more or eating less. How hard is the diet? Are you hungry ever? Overall your macros / calories might be high if you want to be losing 2 pounds a week without a decent amount of activity/cardio/strenuous work. When you were younger and could diet easier, what was your day to day activity like?
What type of beef do you mean at 200g? My guess is that if you are consistently eating somewhere between 2500-3000 per day, the cheat meal may be pushing you over the top and stall weight loss. I'm all for a cheat meal, but I think you're body needs to need it before you incorporate it! Are you meticulous with the measurements of your portion sizes? I knew a guy who couldn't get shredded (he was lean, just not competition lean), but come to find out he was eating about double what he thought because 2-3 meals had beef in the neighborhood of 1000 calories each meal where he just didn't know!
I feel as though you will continue to lose until you hit about 200 pounds and hit a plateau - unless of course things are changed before then.
I'm as firm believer that you can predict weight loss to a large extent on calories alone. Many might argue with this, but the fact is, no matter what your macros and timing, you can't lose if you're eating too much! Unless of course you're an ironman, or competing in the tour de france.